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Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Twine user — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:20:41 -0000

Twine does not deliver as promised again - the "reader" feature has been rolled back because of the server problems. I should say this has been a pattern.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

cabezas — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:36:43 -0000

Thanks for the great post. I have been using twine for a while and thoroughly enjoy it. It is interesting how well you (Jennifer) summarized Twine and Michael's immediate comment on that summary was on the money.

The UI was not attractive and I happen to think the site took on the personality of its creator/founder Nova Spivacek-very progressive, ahead of its time, with trouble efficiently detailing its importance to the social media community.

Again, I think it is great and believe they will continue to reach new heights, even if we, as a community, have to play catch-up or try harder to decifer their poorly-communicated (at times) service to us; from what they have produced, it is well worth the time!

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Edwin Khodabakchian — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:05:11 -0000

This is indeed a very cool description. I would love to see twine as a mind map.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Jeremy Goodrich — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:48:46 -0000

http://siteanalytics.compet...

Yawn...they caught up to us, too, at least according to compete.

According to quantcast, on the other hand, twine gets ~300K monthly US visitors...so doea delicious, at least, according to quantcast.

:) Which would make us nearly 5x bigger than delicious, lol. I think all these panels are wrong...you're you guys specialize in covering "social media" at the expensive of 'interesting story'....though twine *did* raise $13 million, so props for that. Still, I'd rather have an audience than board members, personally (which is what we do have). Where is the "massive opportunity" in all this, if none of the large players (digg, etc) have an exit or profit in their near future?

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Jennifer Van Grove — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:28:45 -0000

It took me awhile to get it myself. I'm guessing the UI didn't help their cause, which they seem to be aware of (hence the changes).

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Michael Fidler — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:22:33 -0000

Why is it that you can describe it so simply here, but they never could? I tried a year ago, and I never really got it. It actually sound useful the way you describe it. I might have to look at it again. I've noticed on other sites how feature updates bring people back to sites after long absences. Now I'm one of them.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Jennifer Van Grove — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:59:15 -0000

The idea is to be able to grab bookmarks or links using their bookmarklet tool and group them in a twine. Twines are public or private, but social in nature. So one use case is if you're doing research on a topic and want to save all those bookmarks in a folder/group, but allow parties you've shared that twine with to discuss each bookmark.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

awilensky — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:50:54 -0000

I have really tried to use the service, and after several weeks my opinion is that it adds nothing to my on-line experience.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Brian Beehler — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:27:12 -0000

Great Social Bookmarking site and is far more richer in features than Delicious...

http://brianbeehler.com

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Esteban Contreras — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:11:31 -0000

Agree. Delicious stopped being delicious. Their name is still awesome. Best use of periods. Ever. Period.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Twine user — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:03:41 -0000

This is all good, but when would the service scale? It has been very slow for me and with more then 200 twine subscriptions (some of those subscriptions to twine with virtually identical purpose and content), the Reader is very slow.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

Nathan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:26:56 -0000

I don't understand Twine. I signed up early but couldn't figure out what the advantage over other social bookmarking services was. It was supposed to be "semantic" but the semantic features as they were described to me didn't seem to work reliably. Maybe the changes will help -- it sounded real promising when I first heard about it.

Re: Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover

egoldstein — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:10:08 -0000

Imagine how cool delicious would have been if they never sold to Yahoo. The innovation seemed to just stop.