Skimmer, organize online social stuff

http://www.fallon.com/skimmer

by jrnkntl • 17 years ago

10 7 17 years ago

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marram• 17 years ago

Looks pretty cool. Does it hook into Facebook?

jrnkntl• 17 years ago

it does actually: http://www.fallon.com/skimmer/features

steadicat• 17 years ago

"A lifestreaming thing that let's you..." Such a shame. So much care into typography and layout, then they forget to check their grammar.

poutine• 17 years ago

Well kids, let this be a lesson to you on letting your adobe flash loving graphic artist design a GUI.

Horrid, horrid, horrid. Would prefer to use Twitter through 'netcat | egrep' than this abomination.

JoelSutherland• 17 years ago

Downmodded because the tone of this comment isn't really appropriate for HN. Other than being Flash based, what do you find distasteful about the GUI? Answering that question would be both interesting to other commenters and helpful to the OP.

jhatcom• 17 years ago

Hmmm, do you really want to provide the username and password to all your social networking sites to these folks? I don't.

GBKS• 17 years ago

I like this a lot. Compared to a visual disaster like PeopleBrowsr, this app is very appealing. The three view modes are very useful and the sparse use of visual elements doesn't distract from the content.

As to browsing content, I find the visual hierarchy slightly off in some places. In the list view, for example, the date has a dark background, pushing it in the foreground. In contrast, the actual tweet itself is in light grey. That text is the meat I want to be able to scan quickly, which is hard to do with the current visual treatment.

In the authentication screen I think you need some more explanations why you need to be able to post notes to my Facebook account. This is a tricky matter (see the other comments) and a simple explanation what you are going to do with my credentials would put my mind to ease that you're not going to spam updates to my account.

This is very promising. Please keep iterating on this.

Skimmer, organize online social stuff

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