Ask HN: Review our app, Boomtango

Re:Ask HN: Review our app, Boomtango by aristus on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @04:47PM (#853647)

Sweet work, and congrats! I wrote and maintain archivd.com and before that dowser.sf.net. Anyone who helps users archive and search is good people.

I suggest working on the visualization design, ie find better ways to compactly represent the important information inside arbitrary webpages. Also think about inferring structure, for example, if a user searches Google for "foo bar" and clicks on a result, that result should automatically get a "foo bar" tag.

Good luck!

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Re:Ask HN: Review our app, Boomtango by willwagner on Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:46AM (#855148)

Thanks for the feedback. We definitely need some work on the visual design; also, I love the idea about an inferred structure.

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Re:Ask HN: Review our app, Boomtango by aristus on Friday October 02, 2009 @02:17PM (#857621)

Np. The way I think about it, an "icon" for a piece of information has to be three things:

    An accurate portrayal of the contents

    More compact than the original

    Sufficiently different from other icons of the same "type"

With web pages that means more than the title + favicon. If a page has a video embedded in it, that's a BIG clue. Also there is tons of structured information that sites put inside pages to make them more tasty to search engines, like microformats. Facebook recently created a de-facto standard for video_src nd image_src link tags.

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