Comments on: (Cover) Flowww For Your Tech News

By: youtube

youtube — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:30:02 +0000

thank u

By: Lost

Lost — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:44:59 +0000

Thanks for the share. I love that web site. Lost Lost

By: site mahallesi

site mahallesi — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:44:34 +0000

thank you lessing

By: net@night 54 - May 28th, 2008: The Twins | SearchcommandN

net@night 54 - May 28th, 2008: The Twins | SearchcommandN — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:18:30 +0000

[...] Does Cover Flow work for browsing the Web? [...]

By: qukl

qukl — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:03:10 +0000

thanks for that

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:28:29 +0000

What kinds of computers are you viewing this on? I am using a 3 year old Mac and it’s working fine.

Maybe it’s not meant for “sophisticated viewers” (who apparently are still using their college computers). I think it has great potential!

By: angus

angus — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:14:56 +0000

It’s just a joke. Too slowww (triple letter), and please just tell people coverflow is not for your mouse.

However it let me think about that why RSS reader can’t show the site’s layout. For some time I’m bored to keep reading plain text in Google Reader and a good-looking site can definitely improve the readability.

By: Alexandar Tzanov

Alexandar Tzanov — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:53:59 +0000

My guess would be that the www in flowww stands for World Wide Web.

By: SushiFoo

SushiFoo — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:06:22 +0000

Have any of you tried this plugin from a company called cooliris (www.cooliris.com). Their plugin allows you to search and browse all kinds of media. I use it all the time and have stopped going to Flickr and YouTube, because the experience that their product provides is so much better. I have a lot of friends in the photography community who swear by it.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:34:54 +0000

I’m going to laugh when Jobs releases an actual working coverflow viewer for rss feeds later this year and everyone praises the concept.

Surely, grandmas everywhere will follow the daily web 2.0 news this way.

By: John L

John L — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:09:13 +0000

It seems that the majority of complaints are focused on the ultra dumbed
down gui. All relevant points. It is too easy for sophisticated users.

Btw, this runs fine on my 2 year old Mac. Are my fellow techcrunch readers using 5 year old laptops? What are you guys using? Thinkpad Pentium III’s, 1 gig, 1024×768?

No one has mentioned the selection mechanism behind the eye candy. It doesn’t look as simple as displaying RSS feeds. As far as I can tell, most RSS feeds do not include the numberof bookmarks, tweets or diggs associated with a story, do they?

How does it work?

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:27:22 +0000

Hard to tell if it’s good or not as it just crashes my Firefox AND Explorer, seems to be massively memory hungry, so can’t use even if I wanted to.

By: Kevin Milden

Kevin Milden — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:19:25 +0000

I don’t get it. So they used a web page imaging application that pulls from an RSS and then the images toss into a flash cover flow component? They bought the flash component from somewhere which hooks directly up to XML. Where is the technology? This can’t be a business idea. Lame… Does TechCruch have anyone technical on their team to evaluate this stuff before you post it to your site?

By: Noah

Noah — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:48:51 +0000

Incredibly slow and clunky for me. Practically is crashing Safari (might just be the computer).

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:01:29 +0000

Another example of just because it can be done, doesn’t mean it should be done.

I guess the next one we see is our news feeds all represented by little thumbs and we deep zoom into them. A great one off concept, but impossible to use to quickly scan your feeds.

By: Adhogati

Adhogati — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:55:17 +0000

it’s not user friendly as it looks …
the naviagation looks cool but doesnt solve any problem rather it creates problems, first of all it made my system slow, secondly I cannot jump directly to any story without fliping through all pages.

By: John Carson

John Carson — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:51:12 +0000

Hey Erick,

“It is too slow and it forces you to look at the pre-selected sites in the order that the algorithm (or Zotter) picks them. If you want to read the middle story, you have to flip through all the previous ones to get to it.”

If you look to the right and just click on the furthest story you can see, it goes straight there, so you can skip through about six at a time.

Hope that helps and saves time.

Cheers,
John.

By: simplyRik

simplyRik — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:13:27 +0000

Very similar to the Vista implementation of the ALT+Tab feature. I guess if you had IE open in several windows, you could flip like this as well.

By: john

john — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:01:30 +0000

@ Not for nowww

Pour être aussi exigeant il fallait bien que ce soit en Français ….
Alors un voici un webfolio thématique pour un Français de la bouffe !

http://www.web2...olio=cuisine_fr
;
Sorry this short french discussion

By: Deepa

Deepa — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:18:47 +0000

It sounded fairly interesting until my Firefox crashed twice when I attempted to view their site. So I gave up that idea. This may work for those who take the visually appealing services over the more practical. Though it is fair game (since quite a few people actually would take the shiny over the dull – this is including those who aren’t completely tech savvy and those who are), I have my doubts on it. Is this one of those services that happens to be all spiff and no substance? And in my opinion, the triple ‘w’ is slightly tacky. I think I’ll stick with Google Reader when it comes to reading my choice of news.

By: faceloop

faceloop — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:04:56 +0000

i too was sick of my rss reader – so i built a an aggregator (on wordpress w/ a couple of plugins) to clear the clutter.

i guess it could be called the exact opposite of flowww. but it works for me and a couple of friends.

http://altread.com (its slow, though – but ill fix it someday)

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:55:18 +0000

I disagree the news is stale. I also prefer the visual nature-it was not slow on my computer and fit my screen perfectly. Interesting concept!

By: Don

Don — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:47:42 +0000

I enjoyed the visual aspect of the site-it gives me more information than just the headline. I also think there will be future applications with children who are more enticed by the visual component than just a written summary or headline

By: Nat

Nat — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:46:12 +0000

There is a similar site that have this kind features it called spacetime 3D , 3D search,Tab and so on.It’s nice , but i don’t use it , it uses a lot of memory in my computer.

Nat
http://www.workersinc.com

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:18:52 +0000

Let me Import an OPML and put in on AIR and I’ll use it.