Comments on: Blerp Adds a Social Network Layer Over the Entire Web http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Full Circle Associates » My Spring Online Reading http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210907 Wed, 20 May 2009 15:47:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210907 [...] http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/ [...]

]]> By: Il nuovo web-fenomeno si chiama Blerp? - The New Blog Times http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210906 Thu, 14 May 2009 22:01:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210906 [...] le informazioni relative alle iscrizioni già attive su altri social network e gli sviluppatori – spiega Wagner James Au su GigaOm – dichiarano di voler arrivare ad un’integrazione tra i vari [...]

]]> By: Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – May 14, 2009 « Sazbean http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210905 Thu, 14 May 2009 13:01:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210905 [...] Blerp Adds a Social Network Layer Over the Entire Web (GigaOM) [...]

]]> By: Arjun http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210904 Thu, 14 May 2009 11:02:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210904 @Mark, while the saying is very true (Everything is a derivative), the big difference between 10 years ago and today is the environment. And by “environment” I mean the network, the devices as well as (and most importantly) user behavior. None of these concepts are new (not blerp, not facebook, not itunes, not web based ajax email). What has changed now is that users have embraced these new tools into their lifestyle.

In short, while the ideas remain the same, the environment around it has changed greatly and that makes all the difference. Not ready then, ready now.

]]> By: wecandobiz http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210903 Thu, 14 May 2009 07:38:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210903 Although it would seem they have attempted to fight “Not another social network!” apathy with teh ability to import contacts you already have on other social networks, leaving out the ability to sign in using an existing identity seems like a serious oversight.

It’s not that hard to add OpenID or Facebook Connect to a site and they pretty much know all of their users will already have some other web identity they are using. Adding the ability to use that existing ID would significantly lower the barriers to using this service.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

]]> By: Mark Sigal http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210902 Thu, 14 May 2009 04:00:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210902 Less a comment on the service, which I haven’t used yet, and more a comment on the truism the everything is derivative. Blerp is conceptually pretty similar to what Third Voice was trying to do back in 1999 – ten years ago.

Wired Article from then: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.09/streetcred.html?pg=11

As someone once said, “Because there is a certain inevitability to such concepts, the hard part is actually making the idea work.”

Cheers,

Mark

]]> By: Arjun http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210901 Wed, 13 May 2009 23:51:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210901 @Steve, nice.
Best of luck.

]]> By: MixedRealities :: If the Stream comes after the Web, how do Virtual Worlds fit in? http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210900 Wed, 13 May 2009 22:05:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210900 [...] James Au seems to illustrate all this on GigaOm, in his post about Blerp. He explains: Blerp is a social network that looks like it’s swallowed [...]

]]> By: Steve Hoffman http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210899 Wed, 13 May 2009 20:06:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210899 I’m the CEO of Blerp, and I saw your comments.

Actually, we’ll be coming out with a browser plug-in that does exactly what you said in a few weeks.

We’re in Alpha right now.

I agree, it’s much easier to use when it’s a plug-in, but some people will still prefer the website.

Steve

]]> By: Anon http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210898 Wed, 13 May 2009 17:53:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210898 I can’t say anything about the service yet, but that name is…not very attractive, to put it nicely.

]]> By: Raph’s Website » Blerp & Minsh: layering the web http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210897 Wed, 13 May 2009 17:17:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210897 [...] Blerp, a new property of the RocketOn folks, is a new social network with a twist. RocketOn, like Weblin, is a plugin that lets you layer stuff on top of the web. It was for avatars and MMOs, but now it’s been repurposed as a way to annotate the web. You get a frame around your browser that lets you drop text, pictures, and so on on various webpages. People you are linked to get to see the annotations, and you can slurp your networks from Facebook, twitter, etc. Blerp’s just opened its alpha, so check it out here. [...]

]]> By: Arjun http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210896 Wed, 13 May 2009 15:39:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210896 @thegeniusfiles,
While browser plugins have had a history of problems, they were due to badly written code. A well written XUL plugin, or even an IE plugin will not have issues because we are talking about blerp doing its own plugin – not offering a framework to 3rd party devs.

Anyway, I am not advocating or stating that plugins are great. I am making a relative statement. compared to stuffing a website in a frame, a plugin makes much more sense. I still maintain, frame stuffing is just plain bad for many reasons:
a) You mess with the UI experience of these sites
b) URLs get rewritten
c) how do I trust logging into an SNS site *via* their login frame ? (example, facebook.com translates to http://www.blerp.com/layer/view/173?layerUrl=http://www.facebook.com)

If blerp really does become popular, they need to get out of the way and only show up when there is a need for interaction.

]]> By: Sardar Mohkim Khan http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210895 Wed, 13 May 2009 15:08:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210895 So it won’t be wrong to state that Blerp is leveraging the existing networks. I like the concept very much, it sort of eliminates the need to actually become a part of some forum to have your say

]]> By: thegeniusfiles http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210894 Wed, 13 May 2009 14:53:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210894 @Arjun I couldn’t disagree with you more. Browser plugins are way overdone, and cause stability problems. Also, requiring your user to download and install a plugin is a barrier to adoption. In many cases it is not even an option (kiosk computers) and yet those use cases are examples of the greatest need for such service.

]]> By: thegeniusfiles http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210893 Wed, 13 May 2009 14:49:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210893 This is the sort of approach I was urging Google to take with iGoogle a couple years ago, but they ignored me. It’s gratifying to see other people (Stumble, Digg, Facebook, Blerp) move in this direction.

]]> By: Arjun http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/blerp-adds-a-social-network-layer-over-the-entire-web/#comment-210892 Wed, 13 May 2009 13:35:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49561#comment-210892 Okay, stuffing any webpage inside a frame is a bad bad bad idea. I wish they just have their users install a browser plugin that lets you blerp on your favourite site and have others who use the plugin also communicate/view just like their current model. Meddling with the interface of another site by adding borders etc. is a recipe for disaster – no one will use blerp this way.

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