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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
5:45:00 PM EDT
A friend of mine asked me yesterday why she should use AIM Pages, what was the value to her. I started talking about how it's a dynamic profile, has your AIM Buddy list incorporated, blah blah. But I felt like I wasn't conveying EVERYTHING about why to use it - until it hit me.
Ten years ago, the Internet was all about products. Things. I would GO to a chatroom, GO to a message board, GO to usenet. I would belong to different listserv's for different things. But it was all different stuff in different places, I lived and died by my bookmarks. Anyone who's ever lost their bookmarks understands the pain involved in recreating that stupid list - I used to go to great lengths to make sure I would be able to share those between computers.
Next I got a personalized homepage - Excite.com (later replaced by My! Yahoo). I could customize a page with all sorts of news or weather content just for me, and it would be the same wherever I was. Sweet!!
The toolbar idea was next. Suddenly it was easy to share my own content with different computers. All I needed to do was install one toolbar, and there I'd see my own personalized bookmarks. Add one bookmark at work, and it'll be there at home.
But I was still going to different sites for other stuff.
My first "profile" was a page on my Quake Clan's website. Then one for regulars in the chatroom I hung out in, then Friendster. I started collecting profiles as if they were e-mail addresses, I have a good 10 e-mail addresses, and I regularly check about half of them. I easily have double the amount in profiles online, and I doubt I check an eighth of those.
I keep up with over 250 blogs and websites - a huge amount. I do it by using an RSS reader. All of these sites are aggregated in one place - all I have to do is click through the list and skim.
AIM Pages is like Bloglines for you, collecting everything about you in one place, including all of your AIM Buddies. All your friends have to do is click on one page to find out anything you want show them, even if you've already shared it somewhere else they may have missed it.
Why should you have to create a list of what movies you want to see when it already exists on Netflix? Why should you have to upload photos again when they're all on Flickr? A wishlist from Amazon, a blog from Xanga, a map from Frappr..the list of what you can do goes on and on.
As soon as I said that to my friend - that everything about her from everywhere could live on one website - she got it. Ohhhh. It makes your life easier.
Everything about you, no matter where it lives, pulled in one place for your friends. It makes your life easier, and gives your friends the complete picture of who you are in one click. THAT's why AIM Pages is cool.
-- Stephanie
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5:45:00 PM EDT
Why AIM Pages is cool.
Ten years ago, the Internet was all about products. Things. I would GO to a chatroom, GO to a message board, GO to usenet. I would belong to different listserv's for different things. But it was all different stuff in different places, I lived and died by my bookmarks. Anyone who's ever lost their bookmarks understands the pain involved in recreating that stupid list - I used to go to great lengths to make sure I would be able to share those between computers.
Next I got a personalized homepage - Excite.com (later replaced by My! Yahoo). I could customize a page with all sorts of news or weather content just for me, and it would be the same wherever I was. Sweet!!
The toolbar idea was next. Suddenly it was easy to share my own content with different computers. All I needed to do was install one toolbar, and there I'd see my own personalized bookmarks. Add one bookmark at work, and it'll be there at home.
But I was still going to different sites for other stuff.
My first "profile" was a page on my Quake Clan's website. Then one for regulars in the chatroom I hung out in, then Friendster. I started collecting profiles as if they were e-mail addresses, I have a good 10 e-mail addresses, and I regularly check about half of them. I easily have double the amount in profiles online, and I doubt I check an eighth of those.
I keep up with over 250 blogs and websites - a huge amount. I do it by using an RSS reader. All of these sites are aggregated in one place - all I have to do is click through the list and skim.
AIM Pages is like Bloglines for you, collecting everything about you in one place, including all of your AIM Buddies. All your friends have to do is click on one page to find out anything you want show them, even if you've already shared it somewhere else they may have missed it.
Why should you have to create a list of what movies you want to see when it already exists on Netflix? Why should you have to upload photos again when they're all on Flickr? A wishlist from Amazon, a blog from Xanga, a map from Frappr..the list of what you can do goes on and on.
As soon as I said that to my friend - that everything about her from everywhere could live on one website - she got it. Ohhhh. It makes your life easier.
Everything about you, no matter where it lives, pulled in one place for your friends. It makes your life easier, and gives your friends the complete picture of who you are in one click. THAT's why AIM Pages is cool.
-- Stephanie
Tags: AIM Pages, Web 2.0
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