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1. Tinus
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 12:56 am

   Many, many errors. Oh, and ugly too. But that’s anti-marketing right?

2. Razvan
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 1:05 am

   Hmmmm I NEED that functionality in flickr Of course after video

3. Ebrahim
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 1:09 am

   …what if the bookmarked image is moved/remove/renamed? Thats the worst part of this concept.

   For the same reason, even (image) search engines store thumbnails of pictures they index.

   Not sure how this would work for long, lets see though.

4. Jason L. Baptiste
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 1:28 am

   interesting concept. saw the error of urls changing of images. the image of the new tomb raider girl (who is amazingly hot) does not link right. Their design isn’t that bad.

   -Jason L. Baptiste

5. Nathan
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 1:30 am

   Why not just save the image to the local drive? It’s static content and doesn’t need to be bookmarked.

6. Razvan
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 1:36 am

   @Nathan

   well I can think of at least 2 reasons:
   #1 Working on different places and you need the images to be available wherever you go
   #2 Helps some websites gain visibility or otherwise

7. Michael Arrington
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 1:41 am

   and the tagging.

8. Luca
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 2:03 am

   it has e very bad looking aspect but the service is quite interesting. I’m waiting for version 2.0 to see if they are able to change in the right direction

9. Razvan
   

   April 5th, 2006 at 2:35 am

   Yes tagging is another thing :)…hmmm just thought of that: wouldn’t be cool if vista will allow tagging when u save files from the web?

10. RK
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 4:57 am

    In response to “Why isn’t it there already?”. Ever think that maybe it’s because feature development takes time; or maybe because it’s good to get feedback and requests from users? I’m sure your feature requests provide great feedback, but your additional ‘why’ comment is retarded.

    A few months ago I thought TechCrunch have a list of all the companies profiled (which was later added as the techcrunch index). But Mike… Why isn’t it there already?

11. Himanshu Nautiyal
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 5:14 am

    Hi Mike,

    Firstly, thanks for profiling Pixrat on Techcrunch. This is hugely exciting for us!

    As you (& Jordan & Pete) point out, there are some shortcomings we need to iron out, but discovering those (and their importance) is the point of a public beta!

    For everyone else who has commented here, thank you - we’ll be incorporating all the feedback we get and rolling out a new version soon.

    Look forwad to seeing everyone on Pixrat again.

12. Ebrahim
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 6:02 am

    Hi Himanshu,

    Your service surely looks interesting, but I’ve made some points earlier, can you possibly answer those?

    (Not important, just curious.)

    Thanks.

13. Geek 2.0
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 6:20 am

    Bookmark - web links - Del.icio.us
    Bookmark - photos - Pixrat
    Bookmark - (fill in the blank) - (your company)

    Neat idea…it was just waiting to be done. However, I am disappointed with the interface (it’s in ‘beta’ already).

    Pixrat, your window of opportunity is small, until Flickr, Del.icio.us, or someone else sitting in his basement does exactly the thing you are doing, but with a more Web 2.0-ish interface.

14. Narendra
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 7:17 am

    Mike,

    Nick and I worked up a slick photomarking site over a year ago for webshots. It’s called shoebox.

15. Spaceman Spiff
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 7:20 am

    A lot of neat ideas, but I cannot guess the business model other than, make a neat feature and get acquired hopefully.

16. Saul Weiner
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 7:38 am

    This poses an interesting question. Why didn’t del.icio.us do this first as part of Yahoo!?

17. Paul-Serge
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 8:25 am

    This looks like a very interesting service! I can see myself using this, if it works well and integrates with FF.

18. Jim
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 8:25 am

    “Why not just save the image to the local drive? It’s static content and doesn’t need to be bookmarked.”

    Couldn’t have said it better myself - this “bookmarking images” idea seems a bit extraneous to me.

19. Kashif Aziz
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 9:47 am

    Great service, wondering if the developers can release API to mashup with.

20. Don Wilson
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 11:43 am

    Rails service unavailable.

21. Bwana
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 11:54 am

    Can’t reach the site, It has been Techcrunched! Wow, that sounds a lot better than Slashdotted or “Digg effect”. Tech.. cRuNcHeD!

    Heh, I’m bored.

22. Douglas S.
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 11:57 am

    [Mike] “What it needs: RSS feeds for tags, user accounts, and the popular and new categories. Why isn’t it there already?”
    ….

    [RK, #12] “I’m sure your feature requests provide great feedback, but your additional ‘why’ comment is retarded.”

    RK,

    Mike is pointing out that these features, or ones very like them, are rapidly becoming de rigeur on information categorizing sites like del.ic.ious and Flikr. The developers at Pixrat must know that, so why wait for users to point it out?

    Sure, feature development takes time. Let it. Assuming that the whole point of beta testing is to have users point out flaws that you hadn’t yet recognized, Pixrat has dropped the ball by not inluding near-necessary features before inviting people to use their product.

23. Himanshu Nautiyal
    

    April 5th, 2006 at 7:43 pm

    Re: Ebrahim and Jason’s point about changing urls or photos being deleted, we will keep the thumbnails permanently (right now, we don’t). Obviously, the best thing would be to keep the entire image in cache and display from there if the real page doesn’t work, but there are copyright issues with that.

    On RSS & API, yes, point well taken. They are coming soon.

    Re: Douglas’ point about releasing before having all the features that are “de rigeur on information categorizing sites”… Till the time we get from 80% to 100% done, we felt it was better to have a somewhat incomplete demonstration rather than a box saying “Give us your email and we’ll get back to you”.

24. Douglas S.
    

    April 6th, 2006 at 6:10 am

    Fair enough. There’s your answer, Mike.

    Himanshu- You might consider addressing those points on the “What is Pixrat?” page, or adding a separate FAQ. Unless you think the only users who know enough to ask are reading TechCrunch, which is entirely possible.

    On a broader note, I like Writely’s “Beta Meter” idea. It lets the users know that the developers know that there’s still work to be done. I wonder why more sites haven’t adopted it.

25. Himanshu Nautiyal
    

    April 6th, 2006 at 7:54 am

    That’s a good suggestion Douglas.

    At the moment, 80% of our traffic is probably Techcrunch readers, but we do need to have a better arrangement to “converse” with users and let them see how we are doing, in particular with closing gaps that they point out. That is the one thing I would advise someone who takes the “let’s release early” route, after learning from being Techcrunched

    The questions asked here are not limited to the tech/web2.0 crowd. A lot of photography professionals & enthusiasts have similar ones, so it is worth addressing for us.

26. Nicolas
    

    May 25th, 2006 at 11:29 am

    I started htt://www.pixpix.net about the same time as pixrat. I have been focusing on adding new features and trying to get it right. The more I worked on it the more it become more like del.icio.us and webjay.com. I am hoping that my site will find its own path and niche. There is no point of re-inventing the wheel. Of course some basic features are neccessary among sites (tagging, rss, etc.).

    To answer some of your questions:
    Question: Why not just save the image to the local drive? It’s static content and doesn’t need to be bookmarked.
    Answer: The bennefit of an image social bookmarking site is for you to share your findings with others. You can’t do that if you save it locally.

    Question: Why not allow people to upload their own images?
    Answer: Social bookmarking sites are basically for bookmarking. They are not image hosting company. What’s the point of re-inventing the wheel if others are doing it so well (ex: flickr, youtube, etc…).

    Just my personal point of view.