Sachin Agarwal // I love good food, good drinks, fast cars, photography and New York City. I've been an Apple fanboy my entire life and worked on Final Cut Pro for 6 years.
I’m a cofounder at Posterous.
Hey, that's our lawyer!
One possibility is that blogs remain the primary social hub for many of us on the web but turn into lifestream sites that syndicate our content to and/or aggregate it from anywhere. (This is my best guess on where things are going and why I have moved my online home to Posterous (
) at steverubel.com.)
Everyone has communities on various sites. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and others have built incredible sites with poweful communities.
But ultimately you need a site that is your own... Your hub on the internet. A place with your domain, your look and feel, where you control your content.
That's what Posterous is. Are we blogging? Are we lifestreaming? Call it what you want, but we want to be your place on the web, no matter what you want to post and where you want to post it.
The case began in 2006 when Cablevision Systems, the New York-area cable operator, announced plans for what is called a network DVR system. With it, a customer would use a remote control to digitally record a program like “60 Minutes” but instead of storing the show in the customer’s at-home DVR box, the technology would store the show on a faraway Cablevision server.
Wow, this is a big step towards full TV on demand. I predict we have it in 5 years.
Six Milestones from 30 Seconds to 3 Years
Here is what an insanely great Web product looks like to the average user right now and through the next 3 years:
- 30 seconds: "I get it."
- 3 minutes: "I've used it and still get it, and it has not annoyed me yet."
- 3 days: "I find this really useful or fun."
- 3 weeks: "I am raving about this to other people."
- 3 months: "I couldn't imagine not having this, and I'm boring my friends telling them about it."
- 3 years: "How weird to see this on Oprah."
My friend Andrew sent me this great article about the milestones of a great web service.
I think most new stuff I see these days fails the 30 second test... I often hear pitches and think "I don't get it, what's the point? why do we need another X?"
Sometimes these companies do in fact convince me otherwise later (the 3 minute milestone), but I wonder how many users they already dropped along the way...
