Posted by: Jim | March 2, 2007

pipe confusion

Technoids are buzzing about it, but I just do not get pipes. At all.

Is there someone out there who can tell me why an application that’s almost completely unintuitive as well as user-unfriendly is garnering so much positive attention?

Didn’t think so.

 

 

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C.S. Lewis certainly enjoyed his.

Hype?

Good point Kevin. And I’m sure his was easier to use too.

Rick, stick an ’s’ on the end and that may serve well as a new name for the service.

Hmmm. I can see how people who are seriously into social networking would think they were cool - as this looks like just the latest SN craze. But, well, other than blogging, I don’t get the SN stuff.

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Like 99% of computer users out there, I took a five-second look, did not understand what it was for, and subsequently put the site in my mental ‘ignore’ list. So much for that.

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