SUGGESTION: It seems to me that Cyn.in isn't the best at integrating itself in the wider digital world, behaving more like a "walled garden of content"... albeit a beautiful walled garden. Of course I'd like to add both an RSS aggregator type and a displa

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everythingability Mar 12, 2010 12:34 PM

SUGGESTION: It seems to me that Cyn.in isn't the best at integrating itself in the wider digital world, behaving more like a "walled garden of content"... albeit a beautiful walled garden.

Of course I'd like to add both an RSS aggregator type and a display portlet, so that I can create a simple news page for departments, but even better, I'd like Profiles to have fields for social media memberships such as Twitter, Delicious, LinkedIn, Flickr and individual blogs.

THEN wouldn't it be great, when looking at a Profile if I could see recent items they've tweeted about, bookmarked or written elsewhere. ( If there's an issue with storage merely keeping the most recent N items would be enough for starters )

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apurva Mar 12, 2010 02:07 PM

Thanks for your suggestions, we really appreciate it :) Its encouraging to see that our users are asking for exactly the stuff that we are building! One of our key focus areas for the near future is about integrations.

Philosophically we intend to take Cyn.in beyond being a walled content store for collaboration to being a collaborative interface to the connected world. We are working on quite a few interesting integration ideas and will certainly incorporate your suggestions into the roadmap.

The storage issue is a concern, but is more a design concern than a technical challenge. Cyn.in would be quite capable of storing tons of aggregated content for each of its users, and storing it would provide goodies like being internally searchable and reusable as content. However, a lot of our customers use Cyn.in as a very formal content store, and would not be happy to 'clutter' their data store with external content. In such cases, a thin superficial 'mashup' kind of integration is a preferred model. Both these models could result into quite different designs / features, and have their pros and cons.

Again, thanks for your feedback, keep em coming :)

everythingability Mar 15, 2010 09:15 AM

Perhaps the design challenge is how you think about filtering content rather than keeping ALL of it. For example, I would be happy with the latest 100 tweets (let Twitter store the rest, or some backup service)... I might only store Delicious tags that have a given tag with them, say MyConference2010 ... or items could be in a moderation bin so that I could pick the goodies from the stream to "stay" in Cyn.in.

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