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This is by far the most special post I have read in a long time!
It gave me goosebumps!
Hoop dat het heel goed uitwerkt voor je.
A question: would you extension work for Seamonkey?
I haven't been to Cadiz yet, it's about 200km's left of where I live but am definitly planning to visit it.
I haven't tried the extension on Seamonkey... however I am soon opensourcing the extension so I am sure that we could get it working on Seamonkey then (if it doesn't already).
Eiso
I'm spanish. Don't forget you are special there. You know, if I go to Holland and everybody has blond hair, people will care for me, because I am special, different color hair, 2 meters tall, had seen more world, had charisma and rare, I am a novelty and so on... Also you use internet(you have more culture), they don't.
A grain of sand could be amazingly wonderful, but they are lots of them.
People in south spain is more open than north spain (asturianos, gallegos, santanderinos y vascos are more like the Holland people), but I have to say that they are more superficial too, you will care for that when you need them.
As my father said "Sevillanos y gaditanos están muy bien para tomar unas cañas, te lo pasas en grande contando chistes, alegría,alegría, pero cuando llegan los momentos malos han desaparecido".
Enjoy your time in Spain!!, I also love the clear sky(today here in Madrid cold but 0 clouds).
A reader from "Hacker news".
Thank you a lot for your comment and i'll keep the saying in the back of my mind. Let's hope it's not true ;-).
Muchas gracias,
Eiso
I am always glad to meet adventurous people like you :) I'll sign up for your beta. Being a developer myself I know a life full of bugs ;)
About your startup, I understand the urge to code a mashup. However, del.icio.us does everything you want Tyba to do (and/or can be coded within their public API), and they even crafted a very good Firefox extension. My question is: What can I expect from Tyba that is different from del.icio.us? I mean they have import/export, RSS, REST and Social Network around URL bookmarks. They lack scores, but they have "amount of times bookmarked" that may count as a score.
I believe that you have a potentially successful idea about bookmarks deep in your head, and it is not digg or del.icio.us or tinyurl or stumble upon or facebook, It's something innovative. I suspect it is not Tyba, but I haven't tried it yet. Prove me wrong and get filthy rich, then waste your millions buying pinchitos de tortilla, paella, jamón de bellota and Rioja wine.
Thank you for your comment and I am really happy you posed that question. I agree as it stands a lot of the functionality can be achieved with mashing up the del.icio.us API but there's already a fundamental difference; the following of groups.
Where you use Twitter to follow messages and links that are interesting on the moment, you use Tyba to follow links around lasting topics and build your search scope. To give you an example: across my twitter hundreds of links fly by each day, mostly focused around social media and web 2.0 but on tyba I can follow a group on a specific topic, let's say "Social Media Tools" and look at the new links when I want to, as an overview. It's not about quantity but about quality. You chose which topics from which users you want to follow.
The above is right now the fundamental difference but since we're just getting started I am sure a lot more differences are going to be created.
Eiso