It's a bit lonely there.
Some tools rise meteorically to mass use. As soon
as they appear, they're immediately popular. On the other hand, some tools are
sleepers. They can be around for months and even years before somebody
with clout suddenly "discovers" them and reports on how much he or she likes them.
Overnight they become popular. Though there are tools which it seems to me are,
from their outset, open and shut cases of "soon to be forgotten", there are others
on whom the jury can stay out for extended periods of time. And of course still
others perhaps "should" gain widespread popularity, but for some reason
just don't generate the desired exposure.
Since I'm certainly not the only person who has ever dreamt of an aggregating
tool of the sort I've written about here (Amy
Gahran wrote about basically the same thing half a year ago), it made sense
that such a tool would emerge. But it also made sense that lots of people would
flock to it, and as of the present, Lijit still hasn't really taken off. It's
received a number of positive reviews, but its user base doesn't seem to be
growing as fast as its founders would like, and without lots of users,
a rising star can burn out very quickly.
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