ThumbStrips

It’s a strange thing to see a product you’ve worked on hit the “social” web - blogs and such. The Thumbstrips Firefox extension has been out for a few weeks now. Its download count quickly surpassed the other roughcuts here.

I shared my first filmstrip today. I live near a lake, so of course I have a canoe that is a bit tippy (aren’t they all?). I wanted to get a stabilizer to make it easier to add a motor and zip about the lake to fish. I bought it a couple of days ago, but it occurred to me today that others might be interested, so I quickly revisited a few sites with canoe outriggers to show where I’d been.

When I logged into this blog, I could see the links coming in from other places via technorati, and it is cool to see Japanese and German blogs talking about thumbstrips.

I did encounter this weird feeling of being out of control when I wrote some free radio monitoring and EAS logging software and put it up on a blog. A studio in American Samoa told me “thanks” and asked some questions. I know there are at least a dozen radio stations using some of my stuff, but I don’t actually know who they are.

We really don’t want to control the destiny of the the roughcuts on this site - rather we want to learn and let the people who use them control their destiny.

Which roughcuts have you tried? What do you like or not like about them? Give us some feedback and help control the destiny of a roughcut.

- Matt

tagged: control, feedback