Comments on: 30Boxes goes portal http://stormgrass.com/tech/2006/06/12/30boxes-goes-portal/ The Excitement of Tech Stuff Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:09:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: richard http://stormgrass.com/tech/2006/06/12/30boxes-goes-portal/#comment-35 richard Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:02:00 +0000 http://stormgrass.com/tech/2006/06/12/30boxes-goes-portal/#comment-35 Right, I get your point about the starting point view, and while I don't see the reason for trying to mimic an OSX desktop look in order to do so, I'm convinced. But I don't get why you are then incorporating things like GMail, Google search etc. in this "view", when in reality it should be about 30Boxes and its networking abilities. If what you are trying to achieve with the webtop is a more concise and less cluttered 30Boxes experience, then adding unnecessary things like the above mentioned modules/links seems out of place. Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that you're the ones receiving the feedback, so you should know what users want/don't want, but I personally see no merit in a "view" that can't decide whether it's a cat or a dog. I hope that simile makes sense ;) Right, I get your point about the starting point view, and while I don’t see the reason for trying to mimic an OSX desktop look in order to do so, I’m convinced.

But I don’t get why you are then incorporating things like GMail, Google search etc. in this “view”, when in reality it should be about 30Boxes and its networking abilities. If what you are trying to achieve with the webtop is a more concise and less cluttered 30Boxes experience, then adding unnecessary things like the above mentioned modules/links seems out of place.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware that you’re the ones receiving the feedback, so you should know what users want/don’t want, but I personally see no merit in a “view” that can’t decide whether it’s a cat or a dog.

I hope that simile makes sense ;)

]]> By: Narendra http://stormgrass.com/tech/2006/06/12/30boxes-goes-portal/#comment-34 Narendra Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:51:43 +0000 http://stormgrass.com/tech/2006/06/12/30boxes-goes-portal/#comment-34 "Specatacular lack of innovation" Um, not sure how to respond to that one. The webtop was designed as a starting point "view" with no clutter that lets you know what the people within your social network are up to (calendar entries, and blog/photo/myspace posts. We are interested in making it easy to display and repurpose content from social media and not recreating a traditional portal (ala Netvibes, et. al.) As far as innovation. 5 minutes after we launched webtop, one of our members updated his firefox plugin so that you can right-click on any image online and set it as your webtop wallpaper. Retro, yes. But also innvoative ;-) “Specatacular lack of innovation”

Um, not sure how to respond to that one. The webtop was designed as a starting point “view” with no clutter that lets you know what the people within your social network are up to (calendar entries, and blog/photo/myspace posts.

We are interested in making it easy to display and repurpose content from social media and not recreating a traditional portal (ala Netvibes, et. al.)

As far as innovation. 5 minutes after we launched webtop, one of our members updated his firefox plugin so that you can right-click on any image online and set it as your webtop wallpaper. Retro, yes. But also innvoative ;-)

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