{"id":876,"date":"2007-01-05T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/01\/05\/daylife-the-pitfalls-of-high-expectations\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T17:47:40","slug":"daylife-the-pitfalls-of-high-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/01\/05\/daylife-the-pitfalls-of-high-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylife: The pitfalls of high expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed the big rush of posts that hit Techmeme about the launch of Daylife yesterday, but from what I can gather just about everyone — including Mike Arrington<\/a> of TechCrunch, a prominent investor in the project — is underwhelmed by it, if that’s a word (gratuitous Sloan<\/a> reference). I wonder if the next shareholders’ meeting is going to be a little frosty<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Paul Montgomery of Tinfinger says that he thinks Mike’s response could have something to do with his well-publicized dislike of the New York Times, which is a lead investor in the site, and Paul also notes<\/a> — as do other blogs that have looked at Daylife — that mainstream-media content is featured awfully prominently on the site. In which case, why not use Topix or Newsvine or even Google News?<\/p>\n

Some of the only kind words have come from Steve Rubel, who says in a response to a comment on his post<\/a> that we should “put on our anti-geek glasses”<\/em> and see it from the point of view of someone who doesn’t read Techmeme or visit dozens of blogs a day. Which is a fair point, but again I have to ask why we wouldn’t point someone like that to Topix or Newsvine or Google News.<\/p>\n

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I think a big part of the problem is that Daylife has been in stealth or development mode for a year or more, and it has some pretty high-profile people involved, including Jeff Jarvis — who seems to be taking all the criticism pretty well so far<\/a> — as well as Craig Newmark, Dave Winer and the NYT. So I think the expectation was that when it launched it would be significantly different than Newsvine and Topix and so on. And it’s not.<\/p>\n

Does that mean it won’t ever be any good? Hardly. From what Jeff says, more improvements are planned (including RSS, which does seem like a pretty major hole), so I’m willing to wait and see how the site develops. I hope it finds a way to add more interaction — comments, blogs and so on — in an interesting way. We could use some more experimentation in that department, and Jeff has the chops to be able to deliver it.<\/p>\n

More commentary comes from David Weinberger<\/a> at Hyperorg, Scott Karp<\/a> of Publishing 2.0, Rex Hammock<\/a>, Liz Gannes at Gigaom<\/a> and Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests.<\/a> And for a totally unvarnished and skeptical take, as usual, watch a video review from the inimitable Loren Feldman<\/a> of 1938media.<\/p>\n

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I missed the big rush of posts that hit Techmeme about the launch of Daylife yesterday, but from what I can gather just about everyone — including Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, a prominent investor in the project — is underwhelmed by it, if that’s a word (gratuitous Sloan reference). I wonder if the next shareholders’ … <\/p>\n

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