I think a lot of people never bothered going to the advanced tab, and since it wasn't described, they didn't know it had features using site:livejournal.com on google didn't. Granted, that's probably for a small subset of savvy Internet types.
Partnerships can be valid! The Last.fm one seems to work out okay, and as far as I know the PhotoBucket one works just fine. The Moo promotion seemed to go over well. Some partnerships, like the Blurb one, had potential but were ruined by bad implementations.
I'm kind of on the fence about the chat thing. I think doing a good chat probably takes a lot of developer effort. Facebook can afford throwing manpower at that task much more than LJ. I couldn't find a single good open source implementation of such a beast based on Jabber (which would hook up nicely with their existing LJTalk), so that wasn't a good option either. As far as I can see, it was integrate with a company like MS who'd already done most of the gruntwork, or not do it at all, because it would have taken too much developer time. And maybe there are people that use it? Just because I don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist, I guess.
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Date: 2009-11-13 07:01 am (UTC)Partnerships can be valid! The Last.fm one seems to work out okay, and as far as I know the PhotoBucket one works just fine. The Moo promotion seemed to go over well. Some partnerships, like the Blurb one, had potential but were ruined by bad implementations.
I'm kind of on the fence about the chat thing. I think doing a good chat probably takes a lot of developer effort. Facebook can afford throwing manpower at that task much more than LJ. I couldn't find a single good open source implementation of such a beast based on Jabber (which would hook up nicely with their existing LJTalk), so that wasn't a good option either. As far as I can see, it was integrate with a company like MS who'd already done most of the gruntwork, or not do it at all, because it would have taken too much developer time. And maybe there are people that use it? Just because I don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist, I guess.