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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.
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.