Almost no online apps evolve well. Forum software is either geared towards small communities, or large ones. Categorization systems are geared towards lotsa content or just a bit of content. We really need our apps to take into account how usage of them evolves over time. Switches to more different views as things get more populated. Slowly adding functionality. Jotspot seems to understand that.
March 31st, 2005 at 9:32 pm
I think many are learning from the Flickr model of doing just this. But, part of the problem is also VC involvement. Organic growth really is needed to get a solid mature product. It also takes listening to the customers and how these people use and want to use the tool. That is still foreign so some money folks.