"In general, the only way to break a paradigm is to throw it very hard against the wall of reality."
That's a great quote! I'm curious to know how your photo-sharing site is exemplary of this statement. I'm not trying to be a jerk here (I think I do a great job of that with little effort!), instead I'm just trying to understand from the perspective of a potential user (or for that matter an investor) of your site who is interested in innovative thinking that is distinctly different from the superfluous ornamentation that you see in the "car of the future" picture given.
[just to be clear: I'm just asking for the sake of knowledge exchange, I am not at all a picture taker and I am not in the business of funding startups!]
I was talking about finding the cracks in a paradigm that needs to break, so I hope ourdoings.com is not exemplary of it. Traditional photo sharing breaks when it hits someone who has amassed a pile of digital photos but has no time to organize them into albums. It also breaks when your peers have litle time and you email them a link to your new photos instead of having thumbnails and explanatory text right in the message.
Up until late last year the ourdoings.com paradigm broke if people had a lot of photos but no time to choose the good ones. Finding what else is broken is tough, in that people may go months without using the site (putting up more photos) without that being a problem. They know they can come back and catch up easily when they have a little time.
If only "futurists" had this type of honesty about their own visions of the future then perhaps we wouldn't have so many "visions" that are obscured by more of the same.
That's a great quote! I'm curious to know how your photo-sharing site is exemplary of this statement. I'm not trying to be a jerk here (I think I do a great job of that with little effort!), instead I'm just trying to understand from the perspective of a potential user (or for that matter an investor) of your site who is interested in innovative thinking that is distinctly different from the superfluous ornamentation that you see in the "car of the future" picture given.
[just to be clear: I'm just asking for the sake of knowledge exchange, I am not at all a picture taker and I am not in the business of funding startups!]