The Real World
Working on whizz-bang web stuff in Prague sometimes makes you feel like you’ve been exiled to a desert island and you’re peering into the “real world” through this strange portal we call the blogosphere. So it’s nice to trek over to Silicon Valley once in a while to match pundritry with the people and personalities behind it. Case in point: I headed round to Mike Arrington’s place today to prove to him and his gazillion readers that AllPeers actually exists. I had stopped by Adobe’s San Francisco offices immediately beforehand to meet a friend for a quick coffee, which by the looks of it must have contained at least five shots of espresso. This turned out to be just as well, since Mike’s place has a pretty high energy level and you have to keep up.
I didn’t make a particularly convincing effort to come across as a proper blogger. I didn’t take any pictures or record any podcasts, and I even forgot to beg Mike to link to my blog. But my real job is to show off AllPeers (yes, yes, and to help develop it), and that went extremely well. There are still a few annoying usability issues, increasingly minor bugs that crop up from time to time and some scalability issues, but it does seem like we’re getting closer to releasing this puppy. Mike’s write-up contains some more screenshots and a rare photo of me smiling, for which we can thank his numerous roommates and cohabiting colleagues horsing around behind me as he took it (and the aforementioned near lethal dose of coffee).
The comments to Mike’s post seem to be split pretty evenly into two categories: those who think the whole idea of AllPeers is bunk and those who think it is sheer genius. I suppose I’ve addressed the concerns of the former to the best of my ability already, so I won’t go there. The browser integration is actually pretty compelling but perhaps some people will have to see it to believe it.
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weird aint it?
Comment by Anonymous — 2/20/2006 @ 12:06 am