Comments on: Navify Is An Interface For Viewing Wikipedia With Photo Galleries, Videos And Comments

By: Interesting Reading #296 – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

Interesting Reading #296 – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:15:53 +0000

[...] Navify Is An Interface For Viewing Wikipedia With Photo Galleries, Videos And Comments – “Have you ever been annoyed by the fact that Wikipedia has a wealth of textual information but no videos and hardly any pictures? Take the Wikipedia article for Sony’s Rolly, for example, where the device is depicted as “an egg-shaped digital robotic music player.” If you have never seen a Rolly before, this cryptic description won’t help much. After reading about it in Wikipedia, you’ll then need to look it up on YouTube or Google Image Search to see what it actually looks like…” [...]

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:05:42 +0000

Hang on, I uploaded a whole bunch of pics to Wikipedia and Commons using CC-BY-SA so WHERES MY BLOODY ATTRIBUTION GONE. This site doesn’t follow any of the rules associated with re-using image content. Everything seems to be covered by the ‘Content is licensed under the GFDL’ statement at the bottom. Give me my attribution you thieving gits.

By: Nettes Wikipedia-Mashup – Der Schockwellenreiter

Nettes Wikipedia-Mashup – Der Schockwellenreiter — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:01:25 +0000

[...] versuchen: Navify fügt den Wikipedia-Artikeln Photos (aus flickr) und Videos (von YouTube) hinzu. Mehr Informationen dazu gibt es bei Techchrunch. [Noch einmal Peter van I. per [...]

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:58:05 +0000

Are they adding any editorial value? Ie choosing which images and videos go with which Wikipedia page? Or is it just a straight search via the Flickr and YouTube apis?

If it’s just a straight search, then it would be far better to have done it as a Greasemonkey script for the Wikipedia site, which automatically grabs images and videos and adds them to the Wikipedia page. There’s no need for a separate site for this (that I can see).

Oh wait, they need a separate site so they can make some revenue (at least until someone develops that Greasemonkey script).

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Thu, 28 May 2009 13:38:46 +0000

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Thu, 28 May 2009 12:04:34 +0000

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By: dazza

dazza — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:30:41 +0000

holy lightbulbs you cracked it

By: Dave McClure

Thu, 28 May 2009 05:16:58 +0000

site appears to be working fine now… congrats alan & rest of Navify team

By: club media

club media — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:47:52 +0000

club images and vids together as media. even google image search and video search should be merged.

By: Navifyはウィキペディアに写真とビデオとコメントを付けるインターフェース

Navifyはウィキペディアに写真とビデオとコメントを付けるインターフェース — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:13:37 +0000

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By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:59:14 +0000

So Navify is basically a cobbling together of wikipedia + flickr + youtube?

By: Nate Chatellier

Nate Chatellier — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:56:29 +0000

Seems like you have to search perfectly for it to work. For example, try searching for “Rolly” and it fails, try searching for “Rolly (Sony)” and it works. Lame…

By: eyalg

eyalg — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:31:49 +0000

congrads to Alan and the team!

By: Off Topic

Off Topic — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:27:35 +0000

you could have achieved the same result by not actually building the product, making some mockups with photoshop, then linking back from a techcrunch article to a dead page…

By: molktroska

molktroska — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:23:37 +0000

“After reading about it in Wikipedia, you’ll then need to look it up on YouTube or Google Image Search to see what it actually looks like.”

Yeah, or just go to one of the source pages. In that article (the sony rolly thing), the first link has a pic. This service seems useless.

By: John Wright

John Wright — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:00:20 +0000

Dude I dont like ANYTHING Wiki. Wiki is lopsided and run by fascists.

RT
http://www.priv...tools.echoz.com

By: Allen M. Lee

Allen M. Lee — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:44:39 +0000

this is brilliant!

By: Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:16:28 +0000

Nice work, Alan!

By: Orlando

Orlando — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:13:02 +0000

I tried the Rolly link in the article, looks cool. Then I searched for something, “Bacon”, and 2 minutes of loading culminated in an error.

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popurls.com // popular today — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:39:16 +0000

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By: Jude Gomila

Wed, 27 May 2009 19:19:49 +0000

Go Alan!

By: Free Freebies

Free Freebies — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:00:03 +0000

shrunk image?

By: Chilly Boy

Chilly Boy — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:54:22 +0000

Note to startups: Over-over-invest in your server before your launch … you can always scale back down afterwards, but you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.

Not many companies get front page mention in Techncrunch …. really a tragic waste for this company.

By: Serkan Toto

Serkan Toto — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:28:37 +0000

I assume this is just a temporary problem. You should check back later – the site definitely works.

By: Amit Kumar

Wed, 27 May 2009 17:12:30 +0000

Yeah, seems down!