Iterasi is an online bookmark service soon to be launched. The twist is that instead of only storing a link to the page you bookmark, it stores the whole page as it is. This means is that it’s possible to open up a bookmarked page and see it exactly how it was at the moment it was bookmarked. Not only how it looked like, a screenshot would’ve been sufficient for that, but it saves all the HTML, images, JavaScripts, stylesheets and so on so that it can be used like when it was saved. It’s a bit like a web page time machine. They’ve got a video of their DEMO presentation on the front page of their website so you can see it in action. Since I can’t use the service yet and in case they remove it from their site: the video can also be seen here.
For those who need this “serializing” pages feature it looks like a great tool. When they go live I will do a more in depth review. Until then I’ll continue working on my own bookmark engine but more on that later.
I don’t mind internet ads, not at all actually as long as they don’t slow down a page too much. Non-hobby websites must be profitable to earn their existence and I don’t mind seeing ads on the sites I choose to visit. I’ve even clicked a few. Ads are not there because someone wants to pay to ruin my web experience but because someone has something they think it’s worth spending money telling me about. So they can make money of course. So I think of ads as funding the sites I like to visit and without them some sites would simply not exist. I’ve even found some nice, cool and interesting things by clicking on ads that had a message that appealed to me.
The next big thing in internet advertising according to this sales letter is audio ads. Reading that got me thinking about how it would be if that became common.
I listen to music when I’m in front of my computer, almost all the time. Either using speakers or headphones and I dread the day when the web becomes full of noise that interfere with what I actually want to listen to. There are already video ads with audio but fortunately the ones that starts playing sound without user interaction are few so far.
For a site owner though these kind of audio ads have a couple of benefits(given it doesn’t scare the visitors away). They are invisible, hence don’t take up any space and ruin the looks of a page and they bring additional income.
With visible ads it’s measurable how many times an ad has been displayed or how many times a link has been clicked. With sound, there is no way of measuring if someone as actually heard it. This is something they have already taken into account. They expect 20% of the played ads to actually be heard by someone. I think that sounds like a reasonable number, until it becomes common knowledge how to avoid the audio for those ads to ever reach the eardrums!
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just have a list of upcoming events, and a display of how long time is left until they happen? That’s what I thought so I created a little thing that does just that. I call it Whenda.
In the spirit of release early, release often I put Whenda online as soon as I had the first feature ready so you won’t get overwhelmed by the current list of features. But don’t worry, there’s more to come!
I hope you find it useful!
I just made a new website called Topicly. The idea is to build a community around a forum where people can discuss anything. I’ve created different example categories but expect those to evolve to whatever people like to discuss. At the moment it looks kind-of spooky since there’s almost no members and no posts. Getting members for a new forum is a real challenge, so please help me out and sign up! I promise to reply to whatever posts you post.
Do you have experience in recruiting members to websites, any tips?
