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Silk - Filter and Visualize Data in Seconds
- nonrecursive 16y agoI was very excited by the link title and disappointed by the site. Here were my reactions, roughly in order: * Why would they show a hobo on the home page? (I'm not trying to be funny here, that is honestly what popped into my head.) * I'm at the office, therefore I'm not going to play that video. * Sign up for an invite? No thanks. I wish you had told me in text and images what silk is. * I should go back to HN and write about how incredibly disappointed I am to not get any useful info from the home page. Data visualization is near and dear to my heart, and I would have liked very much to see a new app for that domain.
- coderdude 16y agoWe had almost completely opposite reactions to the same landing page. * I enjoyed all three videos. I thought they were informative and even funny at times. I didn't think the narrator was a hobo. * I'm at the office, and I didn't mind watching the videos. * Sign up for an invite? Honestly, I didn't either, but not because they had videos instead of text. The service does look neat though.
- nickythegreek 16y agoI didn't even know there were multiple videos until you said something. I wasn't expecting a built in playlist, and the website design is so minimal that I bet people will skip over the other videos just out of not knowing they were there. I'd be interested in seeing the view stats for each video in a couple weeks to see how this approach has worked for them. I imagine though that there will be considerable dropoff for video 2 and even lower on 3.
- keen 16y agoI don't think most people would associate casual clothes and long hair with hobo. I understand that's your reaction, but it doesn't seem fair.
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- nonrecursive 16y agoI'm not trying to imply that it's a socially/morally correct reaction. I just wanted to write candidly in case it's helpful to the folks who made the site.
- subtenante 16y agoBad illustration in the video, Sarkozy has never been Prime Minister of France (he is the President of the Republic, which is quite different).
- skrebbel 16y agoCool stuff! If it works as advertized, it's basically wget plus a lot of perl/bash hacking, but then for non-programmers. I think it solves a very real problem. Basically voids a whole bunch of the infamous REBOL oneliners (http://www.rebol.com/oneliners.html http://www.rebol.com/oneliners.html). I guess data export options would be very important. I wonder to who they want to market this. I think the target audience willing to pay for it is very much used to working with installed enterprise software only (MS Office plus some CRM/ERP that they hate), and might be reluctant to switch over to a web application. Freemium model?
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- hammock 16y agoI have a friend at a place that would pay $X0,000s for it assuming it worked well. This friend's business has a roster of scores of these types of research tools and resources, many of them web-based. Care to share your login so I can check it out?
- msy 16y agoSo it's a metadata visualisation tool. Interesting but in no way groundbreaking. The problem isn't visualising metadata, that's easy. The problem is automating the creation of metadata.
- xal 16y agoAnyone know how they managed to make an youtube video look so... seamless without the usual youtube chrome?
- joshuacc 16y agoThey seem to be using YouTube's Player API via JavaScript. http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/getting_started.html#player_apis http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/getting_started.html#pla...
- alabut 16y agoI like it the same way that I liked the promise of Powerset when I first heard of it. I'm not sure how often I look for information that structured though and whether google doesn't still solve those queries.