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Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
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Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#32Of note: we (Fictive Kin, fictivekin.com) created Gimme Bar. We also created LeakedIn (leakedin.org) which is currently sharing the front page.
Thanks for the busy two days of dev-ops scrambling, friends. (-:
Let's try to keep DDoSing to a lower level than yesterday, though, please. (-:
S
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#33Gimmebar pulls a Readability.
When you share content from Gimmebar, it shares a shortlink to the content on Gimmebar, not the source URL.
Sure seems like content/value/traffic theft to me.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#34Gimmebar pulls a Readability. When you share content from Gimmebar, it shares a shortlink to the content on Gimmebar, not the source URL. Sure seems like content/value/traffic theft to me.
When you share content from gimmebar, they're no longer sure the original source is still displaying the item in question, or even that the URI chosen was canonical (think the root url on a blog). What choice do they have?
To go a step further, I think you're freeing the person sharing the content prematurely. If I see something funny on cracked.com, and decide to grab that content, upload it to imagur, then share the imagur link… Imagur getting the traffic instead of cracked is on me, not imagur.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#35I'm unconvinced. I used FURL, which saved actual web pages. Then FURL was sold to diigo and they killed all that -- actually wiping out everything I saved and just leaving the URL (like a frikkin neutron bomb acquisition!). I'm not going through that again. Good luck otherwise.
That's exactly how I felt after trunk.ly was acquired. I thought I had the perfect system for bookmarks, only to have it all wiped out from underneath me. That said, with the Dropbox integration, this looks pretty nifty. I particularly like the library view, which is far superior to the way Evernote displays data.
I setup birdmine.com which does basically the same thing as trunkly if youre missing it :)
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#36I look at the page and see nothing but a flash video. Nothing there at all to tell me what the service is.
Are you going to force me to take the time to sit through a flash video to learn about your product? Seems like a very unnecessary barrier to me.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#37I'm unconvinced. I used FURL, which saved actual web pages. Then FURL was sold to diigo and they killed all that -- actually wiping out everything I saved and just leaving the URL (like a frikkin neutron bomb acquisition!). I'm not going through that again. Good luck otherwise.
Well.. you could use firefox maff extension to save webpages locally (and your local could be in the cloud, or on a remote backup). MAFF are just zipped html/css/js/img.
Here: http://maf.mozdev.org/
MAFF is a single-file format that contains one or more web pages.
* Save disk space, since MAFF is based on ZIP
* Include video and audio, WebM, Vorbis, Theora and more
* Be universal, compatible with Linux and other platforms
* Use an open format, with no risk of vendor lock-inRe: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#38Looks nice, but that dropbox-export is not enough futureproofing for me. When I rely on something like this, I need to be sure it will keep automatically existing even if any one company goes down.
In your case, I should not have to manually initiate the dropbox backup, and it should not rely exclusively on one cloud provider.
So there sould be something like a RAIC (redundant array of independent clouds) and then your service would be provided on top of that.
With those changes (which are non-trivial, unfortunately), I would happily use the service.
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#39I look at the page and see nothing but a flash video. Nothing there at all to tell me what the service is. Are you going to force me to take the time to sit through a flash video to learn about your product? Seems like a very unnecessary barrier to me.
Directly under the flash video:
"Save the Web
Don’t bookmark the web. Save it. Gimme Bar doesn’t just keep bookmarks; it stores items in your personal library in the cloud. You can even back things up to Dropbox."
Seems to state the purpose and expected usage scenario quite clearly. The Terms of Service at the bottom also has a good description of how they handle Copyright issues which I would think is likely to be the big issue. I.e. if I "save" a favorite video to the site, can it disappear a year later due to some copyright complaint? The answer is yes.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#40Gimme Bar is brilliant. I've been using it for awhile now and can't offer enough applause. I use it for two main reasons: gathering and collecting inspiration (specifically via their discovery stream) and having a visual reference library (as a designer it's great for saving color palettes, fonts/typography, and other resources).
Sign up, connect it to your Twitter, follow some interesting folks, and hit the discovery stream. I'll talk to you in a couple hours.