Why Stacks Are Cool
Today we unveiled Searchme Stacks. If you haven’t read about them or watched the videos, Searchme Stacks help you find, organize and share stuff on the Web. Really easily.
Until now, finding and sharing things on the Web was really a pain. For example, let me tell you about one of my favorite bands, I’m From Barcelona, using the old skool approach:
Dear Searchme User:
Check out this cool band, I’m From Barcelona. Did I tell you they’re cool?
Home page: http://www.imfrombarcelona.com
Video-We’re From Barcelona: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwwbXHNGsjU
Lyrics: http://www.lyricsbox.com/im-from-barcelona-lyrics-6fm62.html
Cool Pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7321589@N07/851789876
Cool Pic 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/66262945@N00/2458874585
Cool Pic 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/81801869@N00/1025087162
Treehouse (my fave): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KkhxrtC8lo
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_from_BarcelonaI hope you like them!
John
Yowza. First of all, it took me a fair amount of work to copy-paste to create that email for you. And, now you’ve got to click back-and-forth through the list until you’ve seen each page.
Compare that to how sharing pages works in Searchme Stacks:
Isn’t that cool? It’s just one of the many things made possible by visual search.
I love how easy it is to create stacks, and I love how easy it is to share them in email, in your blog, or on your Facebook or Myspace page. I can’t wait to see all the different kinds of stacks people will make!
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June 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Look nice, the idea is very clever. But i still think that the user experience needs to be better. From a user point of view this flash application runs slow in terms of user interaction, it doest matter if the search engine is the fastest one or if the menu look nice, if the site experience is slow noone will return to the website.
In my case i feel that this application needs to be improved in those terms. The fact that you click several times in less than a second and it only scrolls 1 image every 0.5 seconds makes this application slow.
You also need to think about the users that are not computer genius, no all the people know that you can drag things around, and even if they know they need to drag the websites-images-videos to a very small container.
Another thing to point out, even if i did long time ago in a long email, is that when you search for a term that has 100k results and you make a scroll the application seems to crash or at least get alot of cpu power which is terrible.
And why if i am on end of the results and i scroll back the duration of the animation more than doing this the other side?
What i am trying to point out here is that you guys need to focus more on the user experience, how to make things work faster, and i am not talking about performance i am taking about animations, shortcuts, etc. things that users want, and needs…..
Carlos.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
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