Sol Young
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August 13 at 1:36 pm - Link
"Identi.ca has a long ways to go before the population will like them more than Twitter. - SMS: Both unorganized (comes from a different sender each time) and ugly (it looks like a Outlook or Exchange email coming in with "Subj", etc.) It's not elegant at all. - Finding people: Ability to find the people you wish to follow is extremely difficult. The only way to do so is to dig through other people's contacts. - Ease of adding people. JavaScript actions for adding people rather than hard links make it 1 or 2 more clicks to add someone than Twitter. May not seem like much, but neither did Google's 0.03 ms search time (at least to Microsoft). - Integration with other services? There's no obvious links or information on how to tie services together. Perhaps this is coming, but nowhere on the site does it actually describe this. For now I think Identi.ca is not elegant and feels like nothing more than a clone. If there are layers underneith, that's terrific for developers... But there are..." - Sol Young