Couldn't this be made in javascript? My fan just started (stupid first gen macbook).
Mine too. 3 month old macbook.
Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com
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#12Zoomii.com is a nice completely javascript version by a friend from a canadian startup. Focused completely on books. Zoomii's really impressive. Its speed makes google maps feel slow.
I'm not sure how practical it is, but it's really cool anyway. I felt like I was actually browsing a bookstore.
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#13Zoomii.com is a nice completely javascript version by a friend from a canadian startup. Focused completely on books. Zoomii's really impressive. Its speed makes google maps feel slow.
Very impressive. How long has it been out? Could be great to implement in a store.
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#14Nice. This could be combined with a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" button to learn your tastes and recommend personalized things, just like Pandora.
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#15Nice. This could be combined with a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" button to learn your tastes and recommend personalized things, just like Pandora.
They're Amazon. They already know what most of us like from our purchasing history, but for some reason they aren't using it here.
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#16A nice design. Looks familiar with CoolIris. But, it is much harder to view more items since there are limited spaces for large, nice poster. There is no search bar for accurate search, no auto recommendation. It is something like best sell book on nytime or top50 on billboard. I can not get any sense about its usability.
I just tried CoolIris, what a pain -- both to install (a 13mb download) and to use (the sweeping scrolling animation lasts way too long, very impractical).
I actually enjoyed windowshop... for me, it captures the experience of walking through a bookstore, finding random stuff along the way, but even better, with music and video playing automatically. I agree that auto recommendation would be a 'plus' but as for search, when I want to find something I would use their normal interface (much faster).
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#17All style no substance.
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#18Nice. This could be combined with a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" button to learn your tastes and recommend personalized things, just like Pandora.
They're Amazon. They already know what most of us like from our purchasing history, but for some reason they aren't using it here.
They're probably working on it. They probably thought it would be a good idea to get the default version up and running and then worry about personalizing it later.
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#19Zoomii.com is a nice completely javascript version by a friend from a canadian startup. Focused completely on books. Zoomii's really impressive. Its speed makes google maps feel slow.
I'm not sure how practical it is, but it's really cool anyway. I felt like I was actually browsing a bookstore.
I think it's practical actually. Or it could be given a little more.
It's fast that's the main thing. As long as it works that fast, I think there can be practical applications
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#20It's nice, but I find it unintuitive that the left/right arrows take you to the top of the next column instead of to the poster immediately to the left or right.