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Adding '@' before a name should auto-link to that person's Yoomoot profile

Exactly like how facebook now does it

Thanks to raganmd for inspiring this suggestion.

Take Advantage of Social Media

I know, I know... it's the buzz word of the decade, but I think it's worth exploring. If I can access or link my account here to Twitter, Google Reader, Facebook, etc. it makes me more likely to contribute. It connects my existing social circles to new ones, that kind of integration allows me to carry over my existing social capital.


I'm making a lot of suggestions and demands, many of which may not be practical... but why not think big? Right?

Gmail/Google
Color me hipster, but I love my gmail account... similarly, I love my Google Voice account, despite the fact that it doesn't get nearly the traffic that I wish it did. How can I search my address book contents here? How can I integrate my moots with my email compositions? Does it have to be a static link? Or can I respond to a moot via email (this could be any email client really)? What can I attach? Can embed google widgets? What about google docs? Responding to a question with a linked google docs spreadsheet could be increasingly powerful... especially if that's linked to a form that collects data from users.
Twitter
I love cross app integration... facebook status updated via twitter is brilliant. Is there a way to allow users to automatically post tweets about their latest moots? Similarly, could I tweet to a moot? If the question was simple enough, could I designate a twitter account that was directed towards a selected moot that I was following?
Facebook
Like Tiwtter, how do I share with friends/family/co-workers the moots that I've posted, or responded to? Can I embed a moot on facebook (also, can I embed a moot in blogger or wordpress?). Maybe users can't respond from within facebook, but at least they can see what I'm writing and talking about... they can see the conversation. Can I find groups or contacts? Can I seamlessly integrate the photos/video content from facebook into a moot?
Blogger & Wordpress
Can moots be RSS friend? Can they be embedded in a blog? Can I easily direct readers to a moot? Can I encourage them to respond to my ideas/concepts by asking a moot.
Catch-All
Following the trend of Twitter and Facebook, how can I @a_user that I want to include in my thoughts?

Delicious

I'd love a firefox plugin that would allow me to bookmark while surfing, and without being logged in. 

Add proper thumbnails not just rollovers on links

It's a pain to have to have to rollover an image link just to see the thumbnail and detracts from reading an article. Also the image then encroaches on the text which looks messy.

Add a 'librarian mode' for mass adding/removing categories and labels

Let's say we have no category called 'scarlett johannson' but then in six months time, we notice we have 1,000 moots about Scarlett Johansson. It's definitely time for a 'scarlett johansson' category. Right now it would take forever to add those moots. So I suggest... librarian mode.

If I turned on librarian mode, this would happen:

  • all visible moots (except those in the discussion browser), whether summarized in detailed would appear with a checkbox.
  • Four buttons would appear somewhere
    • Add category to checked moots
    • Remove category from checked moots
    • Add label to checked answers
    • Remove label from checked answers
  • This process would work similarly label-adding in gmail

Make Yoomoot mobile-friendly

The ability to access the site via a dedicated app (iPhone, Android, Blackberry) would make me more likely to participate. I think long responses require the convenience of sitting down at a computer, but I'd like the ability to mark questions for later contribution while I'm on my commute to work or eating lunch.

[We plan to implement this in the future, but there may be a long wait – cojadate]

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