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Re: Swurl and Second Brain: Feeding your past into the present

Johan Høgåsen-Hallesby — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:18:47 -0000

Thanks for an interesting article and bringing Secondbrain to your readers' attention. As you point out, we're primarily content-centric rather than around recent updates or social activities. We do offer a recent update/lifestreaming/timeline approach - but think of it as a feature that sits on top of a library of all your content. Our main focus is on developing tools for working with your content across different services. Collecting, organizing and sharing - regardless of content type or location.

Oh, and I'm sorry your experience wasn't stellar. We've deliberately chosen a 'launch and learn' strategy opening the service up to the public very early on. The downside of course is hiccups like you experienced every now and then. We try to shape Secondbrain in collaboration with our users and it would be great if you and/or your readers would like to join in on the discussion.

We're putting a lot of work into increasing the performance and stability now over the summer. And del.icio.us.... I really wish they had a more stable API. If del.icio.us don't respond to the call (or return an error) we go and grab whatever we can by RSS (in your case 79 items) and then come back for the rest via the API later on. So hopefully they're all in place now.

Thanks again for including us, and tonight I'm staying late to work on my grade ;-)

@Matt - I'd pick Socialthing over Friendfeed any day - we're really impressed with your work.

Re: Swurl and Second Brain: Feeding your past into the present

Matt Galigan — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:53:38 -0000

Basically for now you can just scroll down. Maybe in the future we can implement something where we provide a list of dates that you can pop back to...that might be cool...

Re: Swurl and Second Brain: Feeding your past into the present

mrshl — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:50:11 -0000

Personally, I think SocialThing is by far the slickest looking aggregator, and it's the best way to view activity from my friends (Swurl needs to work on that). But could you clarify how I might be able to view my past activity on SocialThing? I can't seem to find a "back" button.

I suppose I could just scroll down forever, but a timeline or archive function would make things a lot easier.

Re: Swurl and Second Brain: Feeding your past into the present

Matt Galigan — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:39:51 -0000

Just to clarify, Socialthing! does go historical with profiles.

My profile goes all the way back to May 2005 with my very first comment on Digg.

Thanks for the mention, though!