WHY?!?
That was my first gut response. And it was a deep response… starting down in my toes and working through my entire body upward as the feeling came wildly upward into my chest, out of my lungs and through my mouth into the open air.
Again, say it with me now: “WHY?!?”
Feel better now?
Ok. Now, that’s better.
Kontain, which recently launched is a flash-based blogging platform, and although my initial reaction still holds very very true, the thing does have merit and we should pay attention.
And here’s the big $100-dollar-winner reason why:
The reason we should be paying attention (Unifyer…? wakey wakey…!) is because it’s built on a platform that has advantages that others, even WordPress, do not have.
It’s built from the ground for a particular techno-demographic (and future) that sports HD media as it’s playground. Nothing has to be hacked together via plugins or widgets. It’s all there from the start.
And if you’re a “product” guy, this should jive with you well.
You see, building a platform is a tough job. And once you start, especially when the “core” architecture is built, it’s often times hard to change. In fact, in many cases, it’s nearly impossible and would be much easier to start from scratch than do some ductape retrofitting.
Embeddable widgets for other websites? Built right in. HD video and imaging? No sweat. Media players for tranferring content and viral adoption? Check. True-inline editing, real time rich-text and notations like Flickr? Double check.
Do any of these things come out of the box in your blogging platform of choice? The answer should be a “no” (unless you’ve chosen Kontain as your weapon of choice).
If you want more to wet your appetite, just check out their roadmap for upcoming functionalities, which they’ve published as “Coming Soon” product developments. It’s actually exciting, even for a “jaded” dev-guy like me.
So, even though I’m still asking why (because of the inherit issues with flash which I’ve briefly mentioned here in a post about Unifyer) it’s evolved into something more along the lines of “Why not…?”
Here’s hoping, right?
Nice find, a flash based bogging platform. Is it free?
Either way I am going to play now – lol. Interesting to see how Flash is still trying to live on the web as a complete solution for a site.
it is free… don't spend too long there tony, or i'll have to come in after you…
Haha, I already have an account and a post with video up there. The admin and use is sexy – but not usable for all the time, yet. And still to "social networky" to be a real publishing engine.
hahahha. you're commentary is most excellent. can i hire you?
Load time is crap. Clunky crap.
Speaking of commentary – did you realize that IntenseDebate will push your comments automatically to FriendFeed – and then if they are commented on there – that FriendFeed comment will be sync'd inline back on the original post that was commented on?
mmmmm delicious-ness
yes. but i have yet to do the sync. i'm not as big into FF as you are… sell me in 140 chars or less. i think i have a good idea of what i'm NOT missing…
agreed. one of the intrinsic problems of flash…
on another note… haven't seen a "vox" account in a long time…. you digging that?
I love vox. Design is limited in my opinion but its very easy and integrated well. I would gladly give it up for a better "free" solution but have had a difficult time finding one that matches its ease of function and features.
may i humbly suggest.. *AHEM*… WORDPRESS.
I know… I am lazy when it comes to my own blog. I actually have a wordpress design waiting to be sliced and built. Dragging my feet. It's actually a multi authoring blog too so again my personal stuff waits. thanks for the encouragement though…
rock it dude… you're a creative guy too, right? so, your personal should look dope.
ughhh, Flash. Very sexy to people, but so many issues, especially from an web marketing standpoint. I have to admit that I did not even look at this platform and probably will hold off for as long as possible just because they use Flash.
I actually like WP's thoughts: create a small, very functional core and then allow people to add on whatever they feel is important. To much clunk out of the box is not always a good thing. Then again if two of someone's WP plugins are not playing nice then they are probably all for Kontain's built-in features. ha.
functional core……… digging it.