i just spent two minutes moving all the notes about hivelive south manually so i could add new notes about creating a space in another users’ account.

the order in which notes are created on a space is a natural sequence.

autocreate linkzoops to let visitors click from one to the next!

you should be able to monkey with the sequence.

• this could be done in a wizard!
• like a sort of draggy-droppy thing maybe

show/hide linklines option

• sort by note title alphabetical
• sort by date modified or created
• sort by tag

...will involve seeing the metaspace FIRST.

in other words, when i log in, i will see the current space, with my metaspace overlaid on top of it.

it isn’t clear to new users that you click on the background away from a wizard in order to make it disappear.

probably wizards should disappear onSubmit.

because there is no need to reply immediately.

can the textarea resize dynamically too if i’m in edit-note-mode?

this might be a controversial idea.

yikes.

i’m nervous even talking about it.

this idea is electric though.

when you create a tag, a new space for that tag should be auto-created.

every time you tag a note with that tag in the future, it copies it into a space titled tagname.

when you click on a tag in a tagcloud, what you see is a space with all of the notes tagged by you that way across the system.

obviously, one of which should be:

other users should be able to create new spaces in your account.

i really want chats to go on

but how do i pull you to the same space at the same time?

The more ambient and inviting the registration process, the better.

• matt’s been rooting for guest note creation – this would really help
• i hope you liked my idea about a login/registration prompt showing up after the note has been created and populated with content

an easier “add photo” interface.

• i need to create a new note to discuss this!

should disappear when you open a wizard. it shouldn’t have to be toggled off to disappear it.

i really love the first column is “type”

obviously these are tags

but making it first and calling it type – i really like that

should not be in military-clock style

you gotta be able to export all the notes on a page into a word processor or whatever.

this could be an extension of the print view.

and if a user is ignored three times, they get tagged as “bozo”.

but that doesn’t mean we kick them off.

just all of their notes are tagged as invisible to everyone else.

let them vandalize and bother to their hearts’ content.

that is actually a use case.

they’ll click on ads too.

they just will never be aware that their notes are invisible to everyone else.

we can notify them of their bozo status and have an “apology process”.

let me think about this some…

i think every single link on a space should open up into a new tab. that way when facebook for instance has a link embedded in it, the link will open up in a new tab rather than within the panel which sucks (twitter doesn’t seem to have this problem)

also why not leave the last space open by default? i realize this is not “conventional”... but in general, i always end up having to “open link in new tab”.

we are like a WORD PROCESSOR.

when i hit file->open in word, and i open a document while another document is open, this doesn’t auto-close the old document. as a matter of fact, that is the way primitive, low-memory word processors used to work.

we should develop with a bias towards multitasking. i would love our favicon to be repeated several times across the tab bar of our users as they are working. such a tiny change but such a big benefit for multitaskers like me.

sometimes i want to be invisible

sometimes i want to be “followed”

you can use tinyURL maybe

panels and wizards should always appear above these – if this could be fixed that would be so cool :)

public circles appear in everybody’s circles menu.

private circles don’t.

that’s pretty much it.

and circles should be subdomains.

and yes, we are going to sell subdomains. We’re just going to grab a bunch of good ones for ourselves first :)

ultimately, you should be able to have a half-private, half-public circle – because you’ll be able to cloak spaces.

Google Gears – Performance Out of the Box

Google Gears was released last week and it’s been hugely exciting to get a look at this api, along with some of the apps people have come up with already.

Google Gears API

Obviously many of us had been looking at Adobe Apollo for awhile, and Google Gears is of the same mindset—but even more encouraging it was released under the very liberal BSD license, which only adds encouragement to those of us excited about the rapid advancement of technology. It will be exciting to see the rapid progression of this ‘platform’ for offline integration of web applications. The community of web developers has so many ideas, and Google’s release of Gears to the community in this manner will no doubt generate many ideas that will find their way into the next release of Gears is my only guess.

As an Ajax developer where I am particularly interested in Gears is in terms of performance, over and above online/offline synchronization as a feature. While the two go hand in hand synchronization has a specific place in many apps (internet connection dropped, queue-ing work completed offline, etc), I feel like the performance aspect of Gears with this offline database and client side file cache will become huge. I am looking forward to seeing many engineers benchmark their web applications once they have become enabled with and optimized for Gears.

Developing with Google Gears in mind, could become like Ajax has become the last two to three years. What I mean when I say that is that there are significant performance benefits that can be gained by limiting the number of trips to a server (both web and database), and processing items in batch. We have already seen this with regards to Ajax applications sending bits of data to the server rather than whole page requests, and this takes it a step further. We now have a larger set of boundaries to work with as web developers. We can choose how much to update, when to update, along with a client side failsafe. Having the cross operating system desktop intermediary is the enabler here, and the deployment potential of a large player like Google are obvious.

As Google continues its collaboration with Mozilla Firefox (I can’t wait for Classes in Javacript 2.0 by the way!), and open source libraries like Dojo, it will become easier to integrate these offline caching and synch-ing paradigms into our development practices.

All of this enables richer, more responsive user experiences for the end user. It enables exciting new architectures for web applications. The future is surely bright for the paradigm of web-based applications growing in performance, capability and reach.

when you create a note in a circle, it now shows what directory the new space is going in (that circle’s directory).

make this a dropdown menu.

and

make all create space wizards like this.

in other words, i can by means of a dropdown switch the directory in which this new space is going to be created:

either in the user i’m visiting’s account

or

in my account

or

in one of my subscribed circles

or even

the space appears in both accounts

this way, “creating a space for beppu” becomes a far more elaborate style of “sending beppu an email”. i can send you an email lickety split via gmail or wherever, right? an email is but a container for info or ideas. so a metanotes space consists of lots of info/ideas. i should be able to:

• create a space in your account with a name of my choosing and populate it with all kinds of notes
  • as well as see that space i created in my metaspace so that if you add a note to it in response i can see that you have done so and get you back
    • sort of acts as another form of notification !
• send you a space i have created
  • if i spent an hour collecting info relating to marketing that i want emery to read,
  • i don’t just want him to come into my space to see it.
  • that isn’t good enough
  • i want it in his account so he sees it every time he logs in unless/until he deletes it
    • it would be interesting if i got a message to notify me if he deletes a space of my creation

my notes should be frozen in aspic.

i want people to be able to leave comments, but in a comments overlay layer.

the space creator gets the default layer.

everybody else’s notes populate a layer (the discussion layer) above it which is toggled on or off.

when you double-click to create a note in someone else’s space, the discussion layer is immediately toggled on

which is not displayed on a visitor’s first view of the space, but can be toggled on and off from the top toolbar.

but it is displayed on the space creator’s entering a space, because you as a publisher are very interested in comments. (however you can toggle them off easily).

the spacename menu should be the list of spaces!

the “spaces” menu should become the “notes” menu and list the notes on this page!

please! this would rock!

what about it?

spam is a fact of life, it is part of any communications network, commercial bastards and viagra salesmen, shitheads all

ok so here is how we thwart it

a “report this user” functionality plus admin tools to reprimand, suspend, or IP-block their account

• going to be so cool
  • digest all of my random notes into one space with several tabs
  • my tabs for digesting notes: stickerbook, strategy, delegate, followup, b-plan, circles etc
• you should be able to start a subspace from the central menu
  • this seems like the easiest option for you
• you should be able to start a subspace as a link off a note
  • there’s a contextual menu option: “start subspace” off each note
  • this copies that note into the new subspace
  • there should be a visual indication that the new subspace exists on the original note
  • click the visual indication to go into the new subspace
  • there should be a visual indication that

i really like how twitter speaks of “7 days ago” or “30 seconds ago”.

i think that would be a useful thing to see on the metaspace.

save space as would be rad.

i should also be able to “save space as” on any user’s public spaces – people can design templates for the world to use, or mixtapevideos

• obviously we want the bookmarklet
• also i want to have us a badge
• also we should let people save spaces (and maybe even individual notes) into a range of other services

i want to save time logs as notes into spaces

i wish that were a dropdown with my spaces listed

adding a log entry to a space would create a metanote in that space

i should even be able to create a new space from this dropdown

you get experience points when you successfully execute actions.

• one per note created
• ten per successful collaboration
  • invited new folks and shared spaces

something like that.

XP is always displayed in the toolbar.

i wish we had an onboard calendar!

i wish we had an onboard to-do-list!

why are the iphone apps in this space so bad ???

i like – we can do via tags i hope

• they use “type” for their tagging… i like that.
  • then you can filter by type
• i like the columns with the icons for stats
• author
• date last modified/date created

it’s from “hivelive”, an enterprise social network thingy

• titles
• summaries
• cloud
• table
• clip
• full posts

The metaspace for a walled garden sort of should act like wikipedia’s home page – like there is special content that administrators can put on it like today’s news or whatever. hivelive has something like this: