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This looks like a joke. Is this real?

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Please take a look at the HN etiquette guidelines here:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Specifically the following paragraphs: "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. 'That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'"

If you've got some criticisms, how about stating them explicitly instead of so off-handedly insulting someone else's hard work?

I really meant it looks like a prank. So I don't see what the point of taking out the etiquette guidelines does in this case. The whole premise of managing twitter, facebook, tumbler, etc. all in one place sounds like a joke to me. What's next? Browse in IE, Firefox and Chrome all at the same time from one convenient location. Every single social app currently has the option of blasting every single thing you post on them to all the other ones and that kind of setup doesn't sound like a feature it sounds more like a bug.

The whole premise of managing twitter, facebook, tumbler, etc. all in one place sounds like a joke to me.

I'm sure Facebook didn't think it was a joke when they paid $50 million for FriendFeed, which did exactly that.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfee...

And how many people still use FriendFeed? It is now overrun by auto quote bots and viagra spam. Also, I don't see how facebook approving of something makes the idea any less idiotic.

See, here's the thing -- thinking the idea of feed aggregators is a dumb one, and a net negative to society is one thing. But shitting all over a guy's work by calling it a prank or a joke in a venue that is predicated on the value of small-time entrepreneurs taking gambles on their ideas... How do you think that is ok?

Just to be clear, this guy didn't invent feed aggregators. There are a bajillion of them. You've got a beef with society, not this guy's work. He's trying to make money serving an underserved niche. I hope he makes a billion dollars.

I have nothing against society but I do have something against the OP. Clearly he and his friends have the technical expertise to make something but instead of doing something worthwhile they have created another weapon for the spin doctors. And yes he will make millions because campaign managers these days manage more money than some hedge fund managers but the rest of us won't be better off because of it.

Then go to Reddit and bitch about it. This isn't the venue.

May I point you to the etiquette guidelines for the proper way of shooing someone away. You have hurt my feelings by the blunt way you have expressed yourself.

The FriendFeed team all joined Facebook. I'd imagine less people would use FriendFeed as it became much less actively developed.

You are being incredibly rude and attacking. This is a real pain for some people, and the OP has built a solution to solve that. Having a dozen distributed communication mediums that you have to manage and stay on top of may not be your pain, but that doesn't me its no one's pain.

I didn't say it's not a pain. I just think if you're trying to engage users then blasting them with updates on all fronts is the wrong approach and doesn't change anything about the current political setup.

> doesn't change anything about the current political setup.

A startup doesn't have to do that. This startup is solving the pain of the politicians, and looks like they may do that well.

Jealous? I think that's a great idea.

Jealous? Of what? Another half-ass workaround for fixing the ADD problem of the voting populace?

This guy sounds like an asshole. If he is so concerned about the current state of affairs he should write an application and show the world real problem solving concepts. Instead he rages about something and in the end pretends to be smarter than he actually is.

That sounds like something I said. Are you making a point or just flattering me?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270464

At least you admitted it fixes a problem.

In fact I think it does the opposite. This doesn't fix anything. It makes the problem worse. In our current politics there is absolutely no real dialog between the politicians and people. Blasting twitter updates and facebook status updates to your followers is the shallowest kind of follower engagement because even though everyone can retweet and comment on those status updates no one really does any real communicating in those mediums. For a guy who claims to want to fix the political landscape this is clearly a step in the wrong direction.

Ok, well, at least you are now saying something. But it may very well fix/improve the situation. We will have to wait and see. I think it's an interesting trial at least.

You're obviously very passionate about politics. What's your background, and how are you going to fix the problem?

It's not about being passionate about politics and my background is in mathematics and cs, two of the least political subjects out there. If I was going to devote time and effort to doing anything political then it certainly wouldn't be about empowering the marketing/spin machine used by politicians. I would instead focus on tools to empower individual citizens and give them the tools to fight back the spin machine. This doesn't do anything of the sort.

I think that's a productive approach.

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