Comments on: Core Needs

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:30:57 +0000

@Sashank What I mean is that “social circles” always existed before, but the “social networking” that we see today is considerably different in nature. Consider Facebook and Twitter, they are like an “ambient” environment where you kind of hear the chatter of what people are doing in the background. I don’t know if that kind of facility was available before. (This is not the same as gossip because people themselves are writing).

By: sashank

sashank — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:27:58 +0000

what does it mean by before ???

Each are these classes , existed in one or the other form even before internet came

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:22:02 +0000

@Ankesh I think the brokerage / connector falls under information or communication respectively. Excellent point about the ecommerce store.

@Sashank That was partially the idea behind this classification. On the other hand, I think certain classes like social networking did not exist before.

By: sashank

sashank — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:01:13 +0000

Classification is very much essential .

At a different level , nature is symmetrical in its own way and most of the problems are similar to few other problems , if we draw parallels its easy to get solutions too , we need not to think from scratch .

Most of the times i get some idea , i quickly think if something like that already exists then i try to map my idea with few other existing things to see if its better , else drop it

By: Ankesh Kothari

Ankesh Kothari — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:32:50 +0000

Just came across this:

Segmentation of the top 100 websites in the US: http://blog.directededge.com/2009/08/31/segmentation-of-the-top-100-sites-in-the-us/

By: Prakash

Prakash — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:28:50 +0000

Yes, the “the agent” is also one of the categories to be considered!

By: Ankesh Kothari

Ankesh Kothari — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:18:39 +0000

At least 2 more categories are missing.

Brokerage / middleman / connector (Job websites / Dating websites / freelance websites / RE websites / travel websites / ebay)
Selling / ecommerce (amazon / PayPal)

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:44:01 +0000

@t3rmin4t0r Good point, that would mean the new technology is more convenient or affordable. However, from the creator’s point of view, do the categories still hold?

By: t3rmin4t0r

t3rmin4t0r — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:53:25 +0000

Except, innovation is revolutionary only when people don’t know they need what you have

If you asked someone from the 19th century about “How do you thinks telegraphs of the future should be?” …

He’d reply “they should be small enough for a lady to carry un-aided and you’ll be able to pay a street urchin to climb up the nearest pole to connect them whenever you need to send a message”

(I read that somewhere, I think … it’s stuck in my head)