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Dell’s Ideastorm is exactly what I said S60 wishlist should be

By Stefan Constantinescu on Sunday, February 18th, 2007 at 1:09 AM PST In Ideas and rants

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Some snippets from my previous post about what the S60 wishlist is lacking:

If I could suggest some improvements:

  • Go to digg.com, use it,
    learn it, and implement their exact ethos to the wish list. If I see a
    fantastic idea then let me give it a thumbs up aka a "digg"! The first
    thing I should see when checking this website out are the top features
    requested. Let me browse the requests by the number of people who have
    "dugg" that idea. Trust me when I say Kevin Rose won’t be upset you’re
    taking his idea to help build better software.
  • This should be a dedicated website, not something buried within menus at S60.com
  • Enable comments: If I want to tell someone their idea would be so
    much better if done a slightly different way then let me do it. If I
    want to tell someone their idea is crap then let me do it as well.
    Letting users connect to other users is what the web is about.
  • The UI has got to change. It isn’t sexy, it isn’t easy, far too
    little information is presented per page. I like the red spray paint
    tool in Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Paint: everywhere I’ve put red paint means that there
    is space being wasted. See the picture below.
  • Where is the RSS feed? Wouldn’t it be grand if the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) designers
    could read the feature requests as they came in to their RSS reader?
    What about users curious to "digg" or comment on ideas?
  • There needs to be a moderator to delete duplicates and keep the
    peace. Not saying it’s a full time job, but just someone to glance over
    everything a few times a week to make sure everything is tip top.
  • Let users post media (pictures and video) to further explain their
    idea. Which is more effective in explaining threaded SMS: A screen
    shot? Or someone typing out a paragraph.
  • Registration is a turn off. How do people comment on blogs today?
    They type their name, email, and blog url in to a field, start typing
    away a comment, and hit submit. No need to register. The last thing
    people want to do is register for yet another site they’ll probably use
    only a few times.
  • Let people know that this is also their chance to complain. Calling
    it a "wish list" makes people think that all Nokia cares about is
    adding new features. What about all the people, myself included, who
    have genuine complaints about S60? We want to voice ourselves, debate
    it with fellow users, and get Nokia’s attention.

I just came across Dell’s Ideastorm thanks to Marc Orchant and I have got to say: Way to go Dell!

I still won’t buy your computers, I’m a Lenovo (OTCPK: LNVGY) kind of guy, but this is certainly a great idea. I’m bringing this up so that the guys at S60 have an idea of what to do.

They have:

  • Voting, similar to Digg
  • A dedicated website
  • Comments
  • A very simple, and logical UI
  • An RSS feed! (Points off for not being automatically discoverable by my browser)
  • The ability to let me complain, as well as suggest

I would’ve never expected something like this out of Dell; what you Nokia?

Dell is being more of an Internet company then you right about now. They have a blog, and now this!

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