Friday, March 30, 2007

From Early Days Looking Forward

The original motivation behind Hidden Lives was one of curiosity. Of exploration. Of reflection and expression. There's a line in my journal from a few years ago saying, "I want to hold a microphone out to the world."

Obviously there is great potential - assuming the continued growth of the site - in exhibiting or publishing Hidden Lives entries in different ways.

Invariably however, the bulk of the feedback I have received is about the functioning of the website itself. A typical example comes from the excellent blog Tomorrow's Playground:

"Hidden Lives could increase the ability to engage and hold the user for a longer period of time if they provide some more interaction. The ability to save your favourite posts or subscribe to member’s posts would be a good start. Then again, Hidden Lives is still in Beta so additional feature sets may be rolled out soon."
So. While my primary focus is on getting more people to unveil themselves at the beta site - this being the crucial test of the concept - I am certainly spending some time thinking about what the site could do in the future.

Previously I had separated the website from the project. But it appears that this distinction is getting less and less meaningful. So stay tuned for some posts on possible new features to the site for the future.

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