Comments on: Boston Startups: Sponty – Stop Pushing Email and Pull Your Social Life http://adrianmott.com/2009/06/29/boston-startups-sponty-stop-pushing-email-and-pull-your-social-life/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Adrian Mott http://adrianmott.com/2009/06/29/boston-startups-sponty-stop-pushing-email-and-pull-your-social-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4103 Adrian Mott Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:11:10 +0000 http://adrianmott.com/?p=655#comment-4103 I agree, creating the service as a calendar add-on is a really good idea, and something they should think about going forward. They're already aligned with Google very closely, so GCal wold make sense as a start... I agree, creating the service as a calendar add-on is a really good idea, and something they should think about going forward. They’re already aligned with Google very closely, so GCal wold make sense as a start…

]]> By: joel http://adrianmott.com/2009/06/29/boston-startups-sponty-stop-pushing-email-and-pull-your-social-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4102 joel Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:57:26 +0000 http://adrianmott.com/?p=655#comment-4102 it's an interesting idea, nugget, but the problem is that it changes user behavior too much; having to input into the system when i'm free and when i'm not is something the typical user will do for a week, and then forget about. maybe they overcome this by pulling your status updates from your social graph and then tying that in with gps data from the handset to figure out if you're really free or not. if this were an addon to gcal/outlook/zimbra, then maybe. and if you could share some of your boring time with other sponty-ites, not just your friends, that could help the chicken/egg problem. Joel it’s an interesting idea, nugget, but the problem is that it changes user behavior too much; having to input into the system when i’m free and when i’m not is something the typical user will do for a week, and then forget about. maybe they overcome this by pulling your status updates from your social graph and then tying that in with gps data from the handset to figure out if you’re really free or not.

if this were an addon to gcal/outlook/zimbra, then maybe. and if you could share some of your boring time with other sponty-ites, not just your friends, that could help the chicken/egg problem.

Joel

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