"This is an area I have been experimenting in for about 7 months now - since just.me launched. I think one unstated truth is that the smartphone itself is becoming social in that it is able to deal with 1-1, 1-many and 1 - all interactions. It is increasingly important to dissect these sociologically too. 1-1 between friends vs strangers (same for 1-many). 1-all is almost always to strangers. Then from there to engagement between poster and reader.
What the device/os does (Photostream; iMessage; email on iOS or Hangouts and email on Android) versus what an app is needed for is a key area to understand."
- Keith Teare
"The words private, shared and public have been captured and warped over the past 10 years or so. Private is often a word used for sharing between you and others. Shared is often used as a synonym for Public. But what they really mean is the following:
Private - just for you (not for any other person - like an EverNote post)
Shared - Between you and one or more named others (like email or sms).
Public - Everybody can see, even strangers (like Twitter or Facebook or G+ with constraints switched off).
We all want to be able to do all 3 some of the time.
just.me is implemented this way."
- Keith Teare
"It uses the address book on your phone to enable messaging to anybody (email and sms permitted as outbound). Also allows Facebook and Twitter. One publishing app but multiple end points. this creates a user based private cloud with everything in. It works really."
- Keith Teare
"Grumpy mood this morning I see
:-)
"I’ve played around with the app a bit and like it, but I think it will be difficult for Just.me to get a lot of traction simply because it’s hard to stand out in the crowded messaging app market no matter how great your product and how clear your message is."
But honestly,
If it lets people capture their life, choose who sees that stuff, and enables them to recall key moments later from their personal cloud, it WILL get traction....
:-)"
- Keith Teare
"Based on the diagnosis I am going to guess this is a Korean ISP wrongly advertising Google's IP numbers over BGP, and not Government Censorship."
- Keith Teare