People have become more and more comfortable sharing a lot of their lives on these sites and where it becomes useful and interesting is that they share a lot of their experiences, frustrations, gotchas from which others can learn from. That said, what irked me a lot is that there is no easy way (or at-least I couldn't find an easy way) to search and get to these lessons learnt when I needed them. For example, you remember that a friend of yours commented something about their cruise trip when they went on it few months ago, but when you are researching and about to book the trip for yourself, its not easy to navigate through pages and pages of facebook profile to find what they had said then.
Another example, one of my friends recently posted this thread on facebook:
Now, if I or someone else was looking for a similar thing few months into the future, the only way to find it is to either contact him directly or visit his profile page and search through scrolls and scrolls of pages. From this issue was born the idea for JITLL - Just in Time Lessons Learnt. So, if this same topic was saved on JITLL and tagged appropriately, one could search for it using some appropriate keywords and get to it in about 2-3 clicks.
This is the value of JITLL - Save Pain, Gain Time.
On the technical front, I used drupal pretty much out of box with some customized modules to build this. I will post separately about that experience which has been overall positive except when I had to deal with the hosting vendor.
Come, join me on JITLL and send me your feedback on how to make it even better and easier to use, how to market it better so there is valuable content that makes the site useful for you and me.
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