A turn for the same
Just a thought from 29 September 2004 about
Internet.
Is it me, or did Tribe just ape Craig's List?
I used to love Tribe. They were the one "social networking" site I could stand. I liked the way users could create their own tribes. It gave us something to do besides compare the sizes of our friend lists. (You can still create tribes, it's just deprioritized in the new design.)
But this change is awful on so many levels. It reeks of desperation (when in doubt, copy a successful site), is poorly executed (strange mishmash of styles), and worse, it comes with no explanation. They just took a site that many people had a investment in and fundamentally changed it for no communicated reason.
Also, the new logo looks like they poured honey over the old one until it was swarmed with fire ants. Makes me itchy.
Good thing we still have Flickr.
Wha?
This section is called Just a Thought. It's a blog where I post little pieces of what I'm thinking about at the moment. This page is an individual entry called “A turn for the same” that I wrote on 29 September 2004.
Before this, I wrote a little something called “Putting the "purpose" in repurpose” on 27 September 2004. After this, I wrote “Dog Crazy!” on 2 October 2004.
BEFORE
Putting the "purpose" in repurpose
My story of faith and doubt, Wrestling with an Angel, which originally appeared in Fray, has been republished this week...
27 September 2004
AFTER
Dog Crazy!
I love photographing dogs because they don't put on faces. They don't pretend to like you when they don't, they...
2 October 2004
Working the web since 1995, Derek Powazek is the creator of many award-winning websites, a couple of which still exist. Derek is the cofounder of JPG Magazine and the CCO of 8020 Publishing. Derek lives in San Francisco with his wife, two nutty Chihuahuas, a grumpy cat, and a house full of plants named Fred. More »
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