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Friday, February 17, 2006
I go away on holiday, and all hell breaks loose. Or so it always seems!
Compared with the pace of development last year, a swack of new features just added to the Google Groups discussion platform (I'm referring to the custom groups you can set up for members, not the newsgroups part) could be characterized as a jailbreak!
My first clue that something happened to Groups was the ability to rate posts (finally). Then I noticed user profiles are finally available. Finally, I noticed something I never noticed before. Not sure if it's new or not. Email masking is used on members' posts to prevent spam, but it's easy enough to "unlock" these by clicking on the unlock link and then typing the familiar ransom note code.
Again, it's rather unfortunate that platforms like this grew out of an email metaphor, as many users get the emails rather than visiting the web-based platform to interact. So many people don't quite know how to use Groups effectively. Hopefully it'll all come together. Likely, that'll mean "together with Picasa and a few other things."
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
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D'oh!
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