Sazell, launched in private beta today, is a social media site that lets you take a snapshot of any website and puts it in a Flash widget that you can embed on any site. A snapshot consists of the image chosen for the page, and highlighted or inputted text.
When “snapping” a page, the user first highlights the text they want to include in their snapshot, and then clicks the Sazell bookmarklet. The user is then taken to a page where they can add tags to their snapshot. After submitting, users are taken to a page for their snapshot where other users can rate, comment, share or favorite your snapshot. Users can browse other users’ pages and subscribe to them via RSS. All snapshots are indexed and the ones with the most views are listed on the Popular page and recent “snapped” pages are listed on the Upcoming page. Snapshots can be embedded individually on a website with their Flash widget, or a user can embed their recent snapshots, or the most popular snapshots from the entire site.
Update: Below is an image of what the widget looks like (we had to disable it because it was messing up the TechCrunch site on IE browsers, but you can play with it here):
Essentially a social bookmarking site, Sazell is entering a very competitive marketplace. Digg and Reddit are direct competition, seeing as how they both offer very similar widgets. Although, it’s more like Youtube for websites than it is a social bookmarking site. It measures popularity by views, not by votes or ranking. And the snapshots themselves are simply clips of images and text without any additional commentary by the person who creates them. Once embedded on a page, they are pretty static. The text is not clickable, and you need to select “view more details” to get the link of the original Website being excerpted.
This sounds like it could be pretty good. I’m going to look into it and see if I can find a use for it on my site. If it is as static as you say though, I can’t see why I wouldn’t just do a screen shot and cut the picture to my liking.
Like I said though, I’ll check it out.
Now if I could just remember where I’ve seen that logotype before…
they’re sure calling out Google with that color scheme/interface
“Your Vision Our Platform”
Nice one, Patrick (#4).
useless
It works great and it seems well though out all except for one tiny thing. One you have “Snapped” your web page of choice and gotten your little Sazell snapshot, you are done because I can’t think of a single good use for the little embed code. Unless Sazell can get enough traffic to even come close to making their “upcoming” page drive traffic this is pointless.
Valid comment with the snapshot being static and we plan to make this widget as interactive as we can in the near future.
However, the aim of the snapshot is to have all the important bits out of a web page in one place for easy viewing and at the same time give the viewer some idea about the popularity of the content on display (rating, views, etc)
And does Google own those colours?! I don’t think so!
Forget the colors, 2000 called and wants it’s inner bevel back
Wow what the hell are we doing out there? Too many keyboards and not enough good ideas. Gee whiz, not even.
Why not simply link to a website? If you need some interactivity, use a Firefox macro.
i absolutely hate pics in flash
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reminds me a web site of a friend of mine:
http://www.web-chops.com/
same concept…
This is kinda cool. What’s the benefit of using flash instead of an iframe?
like yoorl.com, in terms of metrics.
Yoorl.com also keeps the sites interactive.
I think this is going to be pretty cool, I’ll have to check this out.
The service is great but don’t ignore the comments that you’re being given with regards to branding.
That logo is shockingly bad. And ditch the Greek letters. I don’t see the significance of these unless you’re trying to confuse people into thinking it’s some sort of social network for Frat boys. Throw it out and start again and you’ll be fine.
they dont even provide a screenshot for you. aye.
at least hook in thumbshots.org or something as a default.
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Ugliest logo I’ve seen in a while.
Nadal thrashes Federer? Hardly… closest match ever
I don’t get it.
Also, doesn’t this widget wildly practice copyright infringement?
wow cool gonna try this one thanks
a whole company with an ugly logo that mimics Google’s behind a widget that snaps the web, a capability thst was first introduced like what, 10 years ago?
no thanks.
Wow, that logo is almost begging Google to sue. Great marketing ploy or gross misunderstanding of IP law?
What an ugly, blatant ripoff of Google’s logo. They must have hired a “graphic designer” from one of those spec sites that pay $5.
I don’t really get the tagline “your vision, your platform”. I don’t get platform. Also, it’s like evernote, but not as good. I’ll go look at the site. I don’t think I have the full 411.
I don’t think Google would sue, because it sucks so bad. Usually a rip-off is at least as good. This just actually highlights the tacky Photoshop FX: bevel, emboss. Weird how visuals like this ship.
@anon I didn’t even think of that! Totally. Although, what about Evernote, etc
I think the tagline is comic sans
@Michelle: Are you manic? 4 backtoback comments? Really?
nik 21 is a speed reader, it was the french open
I have not yet tried the service myself but it seems to be the same as clipmarks.com
They are very slick in their interface and already has a nice community.
Certainly an interesting idea, but I’m not sure I grasp the utility of it. You’re asking users to do *more* work to share something, and the work they are doing isn’t really providing much more of a preview than the URL itself.
The tagging and sharing market is full. The benefit of seeing little snapshots is not enough to break in, and on top of that users don’t want to do work. A ghost town when it goes public.
Anyway, congrats to Nadal.
Hey guys,
I appreciate your efforts. I’ll do a re-brand free of charge.
Shoot me an e-mail.
Ryan
Good God that logo. Someone should be shot.
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