Comments on: Skimmer: A Better Stuff Reader

By: On the design of Skimmer & what agency clients are clamoring for | Inside the Nerdery

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:55:33 +0000

[...] few of the sites that picked up the Skimmer story right away include: Cool Hunting, AdWeek, TechCrunch, AdFreak, and [...]

By: Newspaper communities « Life is what you make it

Newspaper communities « Life is what you make it — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:53:40 +0000

[...] Skimmer: A Better Stuff Reader (techcrunch.com) [...]

By: Seth Browne

Seth Browne — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:32:32 +0000

And the agency didn’t do any of the development either. They must have no creative and technical talent to do something like this internally.

By: mostafa farghaly

mostafa farghaly — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:27:42 +0000

great app

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:24:06 +0000

Fallon’s in-house creatives didn’t design it. They actually had a freelancer do the entire Skimmer interface. I’m surprised they outsourced it.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:37:55 +0000

Skimmer looks lovely, but I think I’ll shy away from it from the point of view of the Ts & Cs. Not too keen on Air applications anyway.

I wrote a related post here on Skimmer, lifestreaming, and encouraging behaviour change if anyone’s interested:
http://designan...treaming-norms/

Thanks for the article.

By: Loris Guignard

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:05:26 +0000

Well, the design is pretty neat, but come on, it takes like 400 Mo of RAM after 10 minutes of use …

By: kerfuffle

kerfuffle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:27:33 +0000

Why. Just curious.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:18:10 +0000

“If I were a high school chemistry teacher I’d write “Good ideas but needs work” on the top of Skimmer and hand it back with a B-.” If I were an English teacher, I’d give you an F for grammar.

By: Skimmer：楽しみなコンテンツリーダー

Skimmer：楽しみなコンテンツリーダー — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:20:12 +0000

[...] [原文へ] [...]

By: Dave Newton

Dave Newton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:17:56 +0000

Ignore your ignorance? Wha? Help me here: I don’t understand the line about naming “Fallon” after Johnny Carson. This is beyond ignorance. Or were you thinking of Jimmy Fallon. I think you need a vacation. Never mind the app.

By: kerfuffle

kerfuffle — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:08:11 +0000

Fallon is a storied ad agency. International Harvester is a storied agricultural machinery company. The equity in either industry is questionable in developing and publishing an aggregation app to a cross-industry audience of early adopters. Which isn’t to say that the app or developers aren’t good. However daffy the app, it’s at least an attempt to gain relevance in the new social medias on the Interscape.

By: boba

boba — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:40:15 +0000

and that privacy policy… wtf?

By: boba

boba — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:32:21 +0000

this part of thier privacy policy is slightly disturbing (especially from an ad agency)

“We may share your information (including, without limitation, personally identifiable information) with partners, subsidiaries and affiliates of Fallon Worldwide.”

can you targeted spam-a-rific?

By: Inspiração: Eles são Fallon | Eduf Labs

Inspiração: Eles são Fallon | Eduf Labs — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:45:24 +0000

[...] hypada agora que lançou o Skimmer, um novo aplicativo de lifestreaming para Adobe Air. Saiu no Techcrunch. Já testei. Graças ao seu design, causa o famoso efeito “uau”. Mas não faz o meu [...]

By: Sprague D

Sprague D — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:25:21 +0000

“Feel free to ask some people on the street who they are, though, and I believe you’ll be quite surprised.”

… while you’re at , ask those same people what
“TechCrunch” is. I think you’ll be even more surprised. And sad.

By: Bill R

Bill R — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:16:19 +0000

If you have AIR install issues, you can download the air file from:

http://cdn.clou...mmer_1.1.69.air

By: ad guy

ad guy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:13:42 +0000

Do people “on the street” know the names of any agencies?

I think it’s interesting Fallon would do this. What is their motivation? What’s the ROI?

By: nerd

nerd — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:31:04 +0000

Will it be possible to use skimmer in conjunction with Tweetizen (http://bitly.com/NYqAI) ?

By: Former Fallonite

Former Fallonite — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:23:36 +0000

Fallon Worldwide is one of the world’s most innovative branding companies. For almost 3 decades they have become one of the break through creative leaders. Never afraid to take a chance. Never afraid to take a client’s branding to the next level of experience. This is no different. Fortune follows the brave. They have always been brave in the arts. Fallon’s work has been seen all over the work and will continue to. So give Skimmer a break people.

By: Pat Hawks

Pat Hawks — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:04:39 +0000

No kidding. Where’s the OAuth?

I don’t mind handing out my twitter password, but my Gmail password (for YouTube and Blogger)?
You must be joking!

By: Matt Albiniak

Matt Albiniak — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:31:33 +0000

just grabbed the download no probs from http://fallon.com/skimmer

By: Tommyo ONeill

Tommyo ONeill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:26:51 +0000

Site is backup.. We got techcrunched!

By: matt

matt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:26:10 +0000

hahaha. You do though, have access to search the internet, don’t you John?

They are an old agency that continues to push the boundaries of what an ‘ad agency’ should/could do. Glad to see they are making waves regardless!

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:14:38 +0000

that was my concern.