Said fast it sounds like a sneeze, said slowly it sounds like a Pokemon, but said correctly it sounds like yet another non-descript web service buzz word… but it’s actually a …

A huge effort this week to keep the show to an hour or so, there is a bit more “so” this week. This is only because of the great content that we had lined up. Unfortunately some got canned at the last minute due to the packed show.
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As Marshal puts it correctly, fleck is still in its infancy. There is still a lot to do (it probably never stops). Right now we are working in a coffee bar on 32nd street on the IE version.
Fleck doesn’t support IE yet. It probably takes another week before IE will work properly, but its IE…. you know!
Furthermore we had some difficulties with the ‘TechCrunch’ effect, so some people got an “too many requests” error. That’s solved.

Fleck is inspired by an article of Kevin Kelly in the Wired (We are the web) Later on we read all about Third Voice and Get Goeey, we call it our 100 million dollar research project (as all companies trying to make the web more democratic raised about 100 mio in total) and all journalists were so kind to describe all problems they had in detail. As Joel putted it, fleck uses unique url’s, unlike Third Voice, who piled up all notes per URL. You can imagine what that does to the frontpage of CNN!

The notes are dragable if you ‘take them by the ear’.
Did we launch three months too early….? Might be, but we’re very glad we launched, development goes a lot faster thanks to a lot off people who are mailing their problem(s), we’re tackling them while communicating with them.

This is only the beginning and we hope people like the basic idea (and a lot of people clearly do). A lot of stuff is on our wish list (duh, tell me something new!) and will be implemented along the way.

I think it is very important when you mentioned that Fleck is best for static pages. But the only way a product like this can take off is if it is used heavily in dynamic blogs and news sites.

I love the fact that it is so light-weight, but the Fleck team needs to rethink a way to retain relevant positions of their notes…and doing this and keeping it so light-weight will be difficult to implement.

Has anyone worked out the copyright issue though? They say they don’t store pages, just pull them, but how much of a difference does that make in legal terms? Especially since they seem to be rather fussy about their own stuff. (”You may not use any 3rd party toolbars or scripts to access Fleck.”)