| Bo Yang Says: Hi John. Thanks for the write-up. About flickr and douban: yes, Flickr had been the key inspiration when douban’s page layout was designed a year ago, and I stand for any due criticism. The reason was quite simple: I was so much in love with Flickr (invited about 50 of my friends to that site), just couldn’t get it out from my head. Being the only developer, I decided to innovate on the “social network over books” effort, not on Douban’s interface. The idea was to start-off with the flickr metaphor and gradually evolve into Douban’s own. Because Douban’s content is much-more text intensive, there’s no doubt in my mind one day the resemblance will disappear. Having a development team (will happen soon) will accelerate this process too. |
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