March 2011
3 posts
knowabout.it is really the result of product...
Most people probably don’t know it, but many of the features and ideas behind the current knowabout.it service evolved out of the wow.ly set of tools for social data.
I have been running and building these various little tools to help you *do* stuff with social data for the past couple of years. Some of the better and more popular ideas came from friends (for example conversationlist and...
Emotion drives knowabout.it
I recenetly came across this great video in my knowabout.it video stream. Besides just being fun to watch a younger Steve Jobs pull back the curatin a bit, it got me thinking directly about what sits at the core of knowabout.it.
For me, it goes beyond just defining what big problem we are trying to solve. I think about what emotion drives our product decisions. I think about what emotions we want...
Product Update: Collection Summary
Know About It’s Collection Summary has been a hit amongst our alpha users. So far we’ve seen staggering numbers (even at our scale) concerning how many people are reading the email, and how many users are clicking through to great content. This has been hugely encouraging to Kevin and I, so we wanted to focus a bit on one of our most popular features.
Today users can customize the...
