{"id":280,"date":"2005-02-16T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=280"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"jamie-zawinski-on-groupware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/16\/jamie-zawinski-on-groupware\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Zawinski on groupware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Zawinski posted <a href=http:\/\/www.jwz.org\/doc\/groupware.html>a rant about groupware<\/a> yesterday, pointed to by both <a href=http:\/\/www.corante.com\/many\/archives\/2005\/02\/16\/social_software_stuff_that_gets_you_laid.php>Clay Shirky at Many-to-Many<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2005\/02\/16.html>Joel on Software<\/a>.  Zawinski is famous for being one of the first employees of Netscape, and then <a href=http:\/\/www.jwz.org\/gruntle\/nomo.html>resigning notoriously<\/a>.  His rant about groupware is worth reading, but I&#8217;ll excerpt the lines that particularly caught my attention here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo I said, narrow the focus. Your &#8220;use case&#8221; should be, there&#8217;s a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? &#8230;  instead of trying to build some all-singing all-dancing &#8220;collaboration server&#8221; where you&#8217;re going to throw in all kinds of ridiculous line items like bulletin boards and task tracking and other shit, let&#8217;s suppose you narrow your focus to just calendars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/21\/#social_software>my thoughts on social software<\/a> are similar, and my first thoughts about a <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/30#attention_management>tool I&#8217;d design<\/a> are similar in scope to the calendar that he suggests, I figured I&#8217;d link to his rant as support for my theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Zawinski posted a rant about groupware yesterday, pointed to by both Clay Shirky at Many-to-Many and Joel on Software. Zawinski is famous for being one of the first employees of Netscape, and then resigning notoriously. His rant about groupware is worth reading, but I&#8217;ll excerpt the lines that particularly caught my attention here. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialsoftware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}