Haven’t joined #joiito for a while but this reminded me why it is so fun to hang out there
jseng: love what the lifehackers did : http://r0.sharedcopy.com/3dphril
ivan`: oh jesus
ivan`: i think that sums up web 2.0
jseng: haha
It was very exciting time for all of us at SharedCopy since we have being featured on the followings:
We even had a very cool screencast made by Demogirl.
Together with the the other bloggers, the usage of sharedcopy went up dramatically. While we know we had a nice niffy tool, we never expect the kind of reception we got from the community.
To all the bloggers out there, thanks for blogging about us. While we didn’t leave comments on every blogs, we certainly take your comments (both positive and negatives) seriously.
Choon keat has also given interviews at SG Entrepreneurs and Web SG for those who are interested.
I have been working with Choonkeat on a “stealth” project for a few months now: SharedCopy. It is not exactly “stealth” because we open it for testing quietly a month ago to a few friends. Also quietly, we acquired users from the chinese and spanish (??) community. But yesterday, we got featured on Killer Startups so there goes the stealth mode.
What is SharedCopy?
It is an web application that allows you to annotate & markup any website, made a permanent copy of that page and then share it with your friends. Above all, we do it without any external program or browser plugins, just pure AJAX. :)
Check out this link to see how it works.
To me, it is some sort del.icio.us + tinyurl + annotation + google cache.
Instead of just sending links to people, I highlight the section I want them to read using sharedcopy and then send them the shorten URL.
If I am worried that a particular webpage or resource would disappear after I link to it on my blog, I save it as a sharedcopy the page and blog that (dated copy) instead. It ensure that the link will always work, showing what the page looks like at the time I blog it, which is kind of cool.
This also open up a can of worm because the same feature can be used to share paid content e.g. NYT… (ah, we worry about the legal issues later)
Like del.icio.us, you can see what I have shared and of cos, subscribe it.
For the geeks, we have APIs and some demo, like how to integrate it with Twitter and Basecamp.
We are pretty excited about the project. There are several feature request and there are a lot more we wanted to do on the site. In the meantime, please give it a try (registration is free) and let me know what you think :-)
The latest news in India is that they are close to making $10 laptop.
Okay, they either made an incredible technology break through or this is up-one-man-ship gone too far. Already $100 laptop is stretching what we can do with currently technology but $10? Maybe in 20-30 years time.
Recently, I got invited to Joost, the new Peer to Peer TV service started by the folks behind Skype. The UI is certainly pretty and lots of eye candy. But at this moment, there is hardly anything interesting that I would watch but hey, it is a great start.
The concept of Peer to Peer TV however is not new. It is first discussed in an academic paper titled Coolstreaming (Wikipedia). With the release of their source codes spur the several P2P TV service like PPLive which I blog about 2 years ago.
PPLive is grow stronger everyday in China. The barrier is that it is still pretty a Chinese software so it is not appealing to the English speaking community. Therefore, I think Joost will be at least successful as PPLive, appealing to those outside China.
I was talking to a friend just now reminded me of a project I done a decade ago (96/97): Intermud Communication Protocol. So I decided to Google it and found: http://www.intermud.org/.
Okay, this is scary. People still using this after all these years? And they actually kind enough to credit me. Thanks.
