Bebo co-founder, Paul Birch strikes again
January 24, 2008 //
You read it here first as it hasn’t been covered yet…
I’m currently sitting in Adam Street where I appear to spend the best part of my life these days and Paul Birch has just walked in after presenting the first of his Cominded services to London’s finest geeks at a private launch party. I’ve been lucky enough to have Paul as a friend as as such, was part of the ‘get some feedback from friends’ process.
Yabb is the name of the first service to come out of cominded. Check it out now and let me know what you think. One thing is for sure, it’s obvious that Paul understands that it must be obvious what’s inside the tin within 20 seconds (as I’m typing this Paul has just said that 20 seconds is probably pushing it, perhaps 60 is more reasonable).
I’m interested to see what another friend of mine is going to do next. Scott Rutherford, Paul’s (ex)chief architect (that wasn’t his title but that’s how I think of him) is probably one of the smartest techies I’ve every come across. I guess you have to be smart to get work at CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web. I say ex because Scott is not longer at Cominded and is now baking a new startup with Rob Loch.
Check out Yabb now and feel free to start a topic and invite me and maybe I’ll join the conversation.
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January 25th, 2008
So - anyone tried it yet?
January 25th, 2008
Stupid. I go to the page and it doesn’t tell me what it is, why it exists or why I should care.
It asks me to log in or sign up.
I followed a link to the blog. Nowhere on the first page was a clear proposition.
So I’ll pass and go back to reading my twitter stream
January 25th, 2008
Need an invite first
Can you send one over Paul?
January 25th, 2008
@Philip @Robin why don’t you apply for the invite and I’ll drop Paul and email
January 25th, 2008
I did already. Awaiting one
In Kualar Lumpar for the weekend so I guess by the time UK is back online and I get back to a connection it’ll be Sunday.
Cheers!
January 25th, 2008
@Offbeatmammal could you not argue that almost everyone going to the site will know what the proposition is, given that it’s closed beta. Go on, sign up and have a go and while you’re at it, provide your feedback about the homepage needing more information
January 25th, 2008
@Paul … well, yeah… but you didn’t warn me, the site doesn’t say “closed beta” or “private, no Homers” or similar (just the subtle little B sign) and….
I’ll shut up now and sign up and see what happens. As long as it’s more engaging the Pownce
January 25th, 2008
@Offbeatmammal - you’re absolutely right, sorry. It was late and I was in a rush to interview Paul about the launch, which I streamed live via http://qik.com/paulwalsh
I’ll post the video in a new post today.
January 25th, 2008
[…] didn’t provide much insight to Yabb in my blog post so here’s the interview I did with Paul to help you better understand what Yabb is all […]
January 25th, 2008
I’m with Offbeatmammal on this.
I don’t have speakers on my pc (no point watching the video), have been intrigued for a while with regard to what cominded are working on.
They finally launch something, and I still don’t know what it is, despite reading a post about their launch AND going to their blog on Yabb!
January 25th, 2008