Remember thy Enemy
JT | 12/18/2008
A colleague pointed me to an interesting site doing similar work as us here at JPS. I was quite impressed with the scale and functionality of YouVersion and the branding of Lifechurch.TV. I was also a bit disappointed with myself for not having known of the site. So of course, I hit the Delicious Tag Button so as to bookmark the site. The pop-up window appeared and revealed that I tagged this originally in July 07?!
I realize now that archiving and memory can take you so far. It took the help of a friend (IE community) to inspire the aha moment I just had.
More important than love thy enemy is remember thy enemy. Now granted, enemy is an exaggerated term, what I really mean to say is competitor. Learn from others in order to align with your own path and vision. Worked for Lao Tzu and Rav Kook. Hopefully, it will work for us too.
And don't forget ebible.com
Neither YouVersion (re: “comments”) or eBible (re: “notes”) allows you to comment on a comment/note. This significantly limits the kind of interactivity you’d be able to get.
I find both UIs to be buggy. YouVersion’s scroll pointers are just awful (at least in FF 3.05 on a Mac).
I note eBible’s UI has not changed at all in a year. Seems like what they’ve done in development is add to their paid subscription functionality. Also their social networking stuff is not nearly as developed as YouVersion’s… and that isn’t going to be that easy to build-out in Ruby.
Some stuff is cool. Definitely worth going over closely.