Just launched: http://talkMiner.com • Hacker News Board

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by famousactress » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 1:35 AM UTC

chipsy wrote: post #4

I really like what I see. I think it would benefit from a "browsing" entry point as well as a search box, because I often want to see a stimulating lecture, but don't have a subject in mind.

I totally agree. When I land on a new site that has nothing but a search box, my mind goes blank. The recent links are nice, but I think more real estate devoted to really compelling, well-liked content would be really helpful for new people trying to 'get' it.

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by famousactress » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 1:36 AM UTC

thejash wrote: post #19

Killer feature for me--if you made this thing automatically extract the text from talks, I would be willing to pay for it. I love talks but hate having to wait through the whole thing to get all the information.

Maybe crowd-rated "spoiler" comments. A succinct paragraph on the core point of the talk would be huge for me with some of this kind of content.

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by Volscio » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 3:32 AM UTC

there wrote: post #14

am i the only one that was expecting something to do with the trapped chilean miners?

No, I thought it'd be that too! Send a message to the trapped miners! Top answers will be curated/voted up and then sent along!

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by ElbertF » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 6:55 AM UTC

saurabh wrote: post #8

robertg wrote: post #5

great idea. great execution. poor design. You did the hard stuff, now make it look good and you'll have the complete package. Nice work.

I think he should keep how it is. It's so simple.

Removing some of the clutter can make it look better and even simpler.

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by targz » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 7:22 AM UTC

Very cool. Do you think a http://www.khanacademy.org/ channel fits in?

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by kaitnieks » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 8:38 AM UTC

One minor suggestion: Do not shorten titles so aggressively (or at least add full title to title element). Here's an example: http://talkminer.com/searcher.jsp?q=scalability - all titles are prefixed by "Seattle Conference on Scalability:" and then almost all of the real title gets cut off.

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by kvinnako » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 4:48 PM UTC

There is no suggestions on incorrect spelling. Instead it just says no results found. WOuld be great if it can suggest a correct spelling.

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by j_admo » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 7:16 PM UTC

kaitnieks wrote: post #26

One minor suggestion: Do not shorten titles so aggressively (or at least add full title to title element). Here's an example: http://talkminer.com/searcher.jsp?q=scalability - all titles are prefixed by "Seattle Conference on Scalability:" and then almost all of the real title gets cut off.

Those short titles are coming from youtube. That is, the original youtube page for those videos has the 'truncated' titles. TalkMiner isn't truncating them.

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by j_admo » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 7:17 PM UTC

mikecane wrote: post #17

BUG: The Share balloon hides behind the video -- at least the one I'm seeing here: http://talkminer.com/viewtalk.jsp?videoid=jqjTBEfh4gM&q= I'm using Opera, btw. [typo edit]

FWIW the share balloon shows correctly in firefox.

Re: Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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Post by j_admo » Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 7:18 PM UTC

andrewcamel wrote: post #20

I really agree with robertg's comment, but I would also make the suggestion to include TED talks.

http://talkminer.com/searcher.jsp?q=author:%22tedtalksdirect...