April 1, 2004
Blog o' Blogs
Kinja, the super secret blog-related project that Meg Hourihan and Nick Denton have been working on over for the past year, launches today (
In other Internet news, Google will reportedly introduce a free-email service called "GMail." Gothamist doesn't have much to say about it, except from the fact that a rerun of Seinfeld last night had George searching for a nickname and settling on T-Bone; Jerry suggested G-Bone, George nixed it, Jerry countered with "There's a G-spot!" and George exclaimed, "That's a myth!" Anyway, is GMail an April Fool's, everyone is getting fooled, because it's been picked up everywhere.
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What time does Kinja launch today?
I clicked on the link, and got "Kinja."
Very anti-climactic.
i suppose they'll open it to the public when they get to work this morning.
i like kinja- i think it's a very good solution for people who are new to weblogs, since it will let them browse curated digests of the best blogs. for those of us who are further along, we may need to wait for kinja2.0, or stick to other solutions like bloglines or freestanding RSS readers. but bravo to the kinja team.
yahoo has this rss headlines thing that you can add to your my.yahoo homepage. it's "beta" right now, but i've got it on my homepage just to see how it works.
I plan on checking Kinja out later this afternoon, after the meetings are through. Sounds interesting.
So far as Costanza is concerned; perhaps if he'd not had to take notes of Jerry's "special move" to bed with him, and opted instead to pay better attention to teh women he was involved with at the time he would have found said, elusive "G-Spot". Still though, his "Koko the Monkey" nickname still makes me chuckle. In the immortal words of Dave Putty: "Koko; that chimp's alright; High five!"
read the press release. gmail = april fools
An April Fool's? From the NY Times?
Gmail is legit - looks like this hilarity is their AF "joke" this year.
yeah- kottke thought it might be an april fools joke as well- the title of the press release is a little suspicious:
press release
Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders
As a blogger I should know this (but I don't). What's a meme?
looks like kinja is live...and it's speedy.
all hail Kinja!
ideas for future kinja features- these would all be relatively non-invasive and not over-complexify the interface:
1. a link next to each blog to show who has added it to their digest (like bloglines)
2. a search function
3. a stats/top-blogs/most-popular story page
4. a list of all blogs that are included in a users digest displayed on the page
5. alternate views- for me, i'd like to be able to switch to just headline view, and to decide for myself how many items to show on each page. for instance, i'd like to be able to show all of the posts put up in the last day on the page at once. that could all be done in preferences.
overall, good start.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe a "meme" is shorthand for the contents of a typical blog, i.e. "me! me! me! me! me! etc."
I think Nick's idea is more about expanding the blogosphere rather than further filling it... From the looks of things it seems that oxygen may already be at a premium.
jake, you hit on something when you compared it to bloglines.com. months ago when i was looking for a good web-based RSS reader that most resembled the 'my yahoo' experience i came across bloglines and i thought it was near perfect in execution. very intuitive interface for browsing. kinja seems to dump all the sites on your list into one long running page(s) while bloglines manages each "subscription" in a much easier way to read. i dunno, maybe kinja allows for customization so i'll have to play around with it more.
so it's a metablog? and if bloggers can build on it, it becomes a sort of mother-of-all-blogs, or a meta-metablog (think 2nd yr calculus...)