Kevin Rose: You Know, Wouldn't It Be Cool If…?

In the world of interaction design and also in the world of software development, it can be a dreaded phrase.

Wouldn't it be cool…?

Features added for the sake of being cool features can make a system or an application indeed cool, but often useless. After all, it's cool that an e-book can have color, but can we determine if it's useful?

Digg creator Kevin Rose has just posted a really neat video begging the Bezos and the Jobs of the world to incorporate certain features into ebooks. I first...