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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.
#52Of 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
Congrats!
Many years ago I worked on a similar idea: first a desktop archiver called Dowser, and an online app called Archivd.
If you don't have enough to do (heh) one killer feature is to extract semi-structured data: email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, prices, photos, Facebook "og" metadata, etc. Imagine saving a bunch of apartment listings to GimmeBar, and having it automatically plot them on a map of the city.
Good luck!
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#53Seems nice, though a bit slow. When copying quotes it would be even nicer if you could keep the formatting from the website. Bold text, lists etc. should be preserved when presented on your site. I thought the screenshot feature could have been a useful alternative, but for certain pages it doesn't really work: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2... - I'm not sure it can be solved in general.…
Sorry for the current slowness - we're getting hammered pretty hard on our infrastructure at the moment. We're working on it.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#54Of 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
Congrats! Many years ago I worked on a similar idea: first a desktop archiver called Dowser, and an online app called Archivd. If you don't have enough to do (heh) one killer feature is to extract semi-structured data: email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, prices, photos, Facebook "og" metadata, etc. Imagine saving a bunch of apartment listings to GimmeBar, and having it automatically plot them on a map…
We actually have some stuff in place to do things like that.
It's currently limited in scope to things like recipes and a few other things, but it's very much on our radar as being useful.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-in
Wasn't there a Firefox extension that would save every single page you visited? Disk space is cheap and plentiful now, no reason not to.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#56Of 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
Damn it, guys, this is very close to the idea I've been working on for a few weeks. Now I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board :)
But at least you have a well-documented API, so maybe I can build something on top of Gimme Bar. Anyway, looks great and can't wait to try it out
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#57I use a really hackish perl script to wget, diff, and wget -r websites in this way, because articles disappear way too much for my liking. This product looks wonderful and I'll be playing around with the API as soon as I have a spare moment. Thankyou for this.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#58Seems very like evernote webclipper. http://evernote.com/webclipper/
I was thinking the same thing. Given I use Evernote to save pretty much everything, why would I need a separate service that does the same thing?
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#59Gimmebar 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.
On any Gimme Bar asset page, you'll find a direct link back to the original URL where it was grabbed from. You don't need to use the short link if you don't want to, but we do make it slightly more convenient.
I guess it's the difference between:
a) blogging your thoughts about an article and linking back to it, which encourages people to read the original so they know the context for what you've written.
VERSUS
b) quoting all or almost all of the interesting bits from the article, and providing a link to the original.
In the latter case, there is no reason or incentive for the user to visit the source. In the past couple of years I've begun to think this is the wrong way to go about things.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#60Like Pinterest, Gimme Bar will quickly fall afoul of copyright lawyers. Copying content outright and re-serving it from your own systems ... not good.
Huffingtonpost??... just to name one