Comments on: Fichey - A Pretty Way To Browse Popular Sites

By: Browse Del.icio.us Bookmarks Visually With FavThumbs | NewsMeToday

Browse Del.icio.us Bookmarks Visually With FavThumbs | NewsMeToday — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:25:25 +0000

[...] site will offer a much better alternative to the out-dated Del.icio.us list. A similar app that was we covered last year is Fichey. Fichey acts like a microfiche for headlines from social bookmarking sites. [...]

By: pkulopjpov

pkulopjpov — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:22:49 +0000

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By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:32:37 +0000

I thought this looked okay…but they need more features. For now I’ll stick with StumbleUpon.

By: djlosch

djlosch — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:11:24 +0000

and don’t forget that since they’re essentially framing another site’s page (i dunno whether those are fichey’s ads or original hosts’ ads), they’re also opening themselves up to copyright and trademark infringement liabilities.

By: Meganils

Meganils — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:55:59 +0000

First impression: Very cool. I’d pay a fiver for this every month if they integrated it with Netvibes and let me use it with arbitrary RSS. Thanks to vlar for re-pointing me to walk2web. New interfaces for coping with intense amounts of data are always a good thing to me.

By: Raegis

Raegis — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:52:30 +0000

Except, of course, they’re copying entire Web pages, violating all sorts of copyrights, and, by making it possible to read pages without even making the pages active, screwing up both those pages view logs and revenue.

I like the tool, but if these guys get even marginally big, they’ll get sued out of business so fast. I’m not sure CNN would think kindly of another site basically stealing their page, reprinting it, and likely deriving revenue from it.

And, neither would I.

By: Vijay Teach Me

Vijay Teach Me — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:51:19 +0000

Just going over to the site….. hold on the comments till then.

Vijay

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:42:02 +0000

retarded

By: pilates class

pilates class — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:11:17 +0000

wow, this is a great tool.. wonder what is their revenue generation idea

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:17:52 +0000

But, Cool bubles on “Loading”..

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:58:39 +0000

Sorry, just checked this service,.. but http://walk2web.com/ is really better!
Cause you can decide where to walk. By their site I can see few next sites and watch a small preview and then open what I like.

By: Tal

Tal — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:32:00 +0000

I don’t like the fact that you can’t open the page you want to see in a different Winndow?
Other than that its cool..

By: RG

RG — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:04:08 +0000

what a waste of hosting space!

By: Becks

Becks — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:48:32 +0000

It’s “cute” technology. I’ll never use it.

By: A

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:26:43 +0000

Argh. There should be a better way to bookmark the pages it displays.

By: Prime

Prime — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:18:21 +0000

Interesting site.

By: Yezidi

Yezidi — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:07:56 +0000

I don’t understand. These are pictures of websites, yes? And then what?

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:16:40 +0000

This does absolutely nothing for me.

By: vlar

vlar — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:07:53 +0000

I took it to my bookmark.
But I found more advanced tool:

http://walk2web.com/surf/techcrunch.com.

It give us walking trough live internet.

By: Designs Mgr

Designs Mgr — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:30:31 +0000

Links up to Social Networking? Personally, I hate Social Networking as it’s full of miscategorised content. I would be cautious of using software that relies on Social Netorking.

By: 80s.mobi

80s.mobi — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:10:46 +0000

i’m convinced…it’s nothing

it’s cool - initially, but it’s really nothing

the posts said it best, “…a way to blow some time”

By: Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:03:29 +0000

The only time I could see this being helpful would be for digg.com, if it went to stories before they made the front page, and before they exceeded their hosting bandwidth. That way people could view the content after the site went down.

By: Vinod

Vinod — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:57:24 +0000

Wish if it had been realized as a Firefox plugin capable of importing my OPML. Still Awesome!

By: Basil

Basil — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:47:39 +0000

At first I couldn’t figure out what problem this site solved, then I had to click the screen to activate the site, then it went………..loading……..loading…….loading…..still nothing while the whole time bubbles floated up obviously a sign from above that this site is destined for the pool of dead dumb sites that just don’t have any pratical application and/or value.

How the *bleep* does a lame site like this get on TC??

I thought TC was ‘the’ premier site for new exciting webthings??

Must be a slow news day.

Baz

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:46:05 +0000

Very interesting, but seems rater limited, eh? Why not hook this up to a larger library of webpages, say like Archive.org?