samgro

Often when someone with a large following (i.e. Robert Scoble, Tim Ferriss) asks a question on Twitter/FB/G+, there is a large interesting conversation that starts. However, it's disjointed across networks and disorganized - some great signal hidden in a huge amount of noise. Also in Twitter's case, the responses don't update in real-time.

I'm thinking about building a service that lets you start a discussion, share it on all of your networks, and link to a page with real-time responses that aggregates responses across networks and would allow upvoting/downvoting to bubble the best responses to the top.

Would you be interested in a service like this, either as a follower or a conversation starter?

These two CSS frameworks seem pretty much identical to me. Apparently LESS can be compiled in JavaScript, but I'm not sure why this matters.

What gives? Why is one better than the other, and why did the creator of whichever project started second feel so dissatisfied with the first option that they had to reinvent the wheel?