Technolotics #14 – Blame it on Francis
In this episode we discuss…
- Flock Released
- Why Google are really scanning the whole worlds library
- He who controls the net (part 2)
- Human 2.0
- First bio-eclectronic organism created
- Google Blog Post
- Yahoo criticised by Chinese Dissident
- Flickr not as open as all that
- How to punish bloggers
- Media Pimp: He-Man sings four non blondes
Tags: Flock, Google Library, ICANN, Bio Electronic, The Google Blog, Yahoo China, Flickr Censorship, Bloggers Forbes, Technolotics, Podcast
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November 3rd, 2005 at 9:25 pm
Hi, guys. Thanks for featuring us in your broadcast. I got a kick out of your banter (let me assure you that we do not condone folksodomy!). To address a couple of points you brought up:
- Our RSS story is incomplete as yet. We don’t support export to OPML, etc. I think there are bugs already logged for that and other enhancements to make feeds in Flock much more useful.
- I’ve never heard a report of the back button weirdness you mention. If you can reproduce it consistently, it’d be peachey if you’d log a bug for it.
There are definitely a lot of things like these that we need to get fixed. As you speculate, we did feel a bit of a crunch to get something out there. We’re generally following the “release early and often and try like hell to get the community involved” approach, which naturally has tradeoffs that you guys hit on.
In any case, overwhelmingly positive review or not, I enjoyed hearing what you guys had to say, and I hope you’ll wait a month or two and try the browser again to see if at least some of the rough edges are smoothed out. We may not (yet!) be revolutionary in a month, but don’t forget that we’re less than four months down our path, and Firefox was 5 years in the making before it became mainstream. So give us a *leetle* more time. Thanks again.