Comments on: Snap.com, Why Are You Still Even Online? http://pulse2.com/2008/01/08/snapcom-why-are-you-still-even-online/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:57:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/2008/01/08/snapcom-why-are-you-still-even-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10934 Amit Chowdhry Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:42:57 +0000 http://pulse2.com/2008/01/08/snapcom-why-are-you-still-even-online/#comment-10934 Interesting. Based on the way I've seen Snap.com used, I think waiting for the Snap.com to load the thumbnails takes the same amount of time to click on the link, take a quick peek at that web site, and then click back. There's only so much you can see in a thumbnail of a web site too. Interesting. Based on the way I’ve seen Snap.com used, I think waiting for the Snap.com to load the thumbnails takes the same amount of time to click on the link, take a quick peek at that web site, and then click back. There’s only so much you can see in a thumbnail of a web site too.

]]> By: Stacy Reed http://pulse2.com/2008/01/08/snapcom-why-are-you-still-even-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10933 Stacy Reed Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:10:27 +0000 http://pulse2.com/2008/01/08/snapcom-why-are-you-still-even-online/#comment-10933 I get some use out of Snap on a professional level. My job at Tucows requires that I find new and helpful Web 2.0 resources and I also run LibrarianChick.com (an educational resources wiki) as well as a couple personal blogs. I tend to do a lot of surfing and weeding through long lists of links that others have compiled. I also find a lot of information and web sites through RSS feeds in iGoogle. Snap helps me decide if the link is worth clicking on or not. I also use Snap when I'm looking through the referral links in my blog analytics because often times I find people are hotlinking to my artwork to use as their background (mostly Myspace and LiveJournal users) and Snap let's me see right away without clicking and waiting for their page, images, music and videos to load, which saves a lot of time. You could say that I do a lot of categorizing. Because I do spend a lot of time researching new technologies, I find myself visiting the same pages multiple times. By seeing the Snap preview, I can tell if I've previously been there in which case I can skip over it. The only real complaint I have about Snap is that it's frustrating to try to read an informational site that contains many links, like Wikipedia. Luckily though, Snap can be disabled so it doesn't have to use up your resources unless you enable it. It's customizable too, so you can make the preview windows smaller if you find they are taking too long to load. I get some use out of Snap on a professional level. My job at Tucows requires that I find new and helpful Web 2.0 resources and I also run LibrarianChick.com (an educational resources wiki) as well as a couple personal blogs. I tend to do a lot of surfing and weeding through long lists of links that others have compiled. I also find a lot of information and web sites through RSS feeds in iGoogle. Snap helps me decide if the link is worth clicking on or not. I also use Snap when I’m looking through the referral links in my blog analytics because often times I find people are hotlinking to my artwork to use as their background (mostly Myspace and LiveJournal users) and Snap let’s me see right away without clicking and waiting for their page, images, music and videos to load, which saves a lot of time.

You could say that I do a lot of categorizing. Because I do spend a lot of time researching new technologies, I find myself visiting the same pages multiple times. By seeing the Snap preview, I can tell if I’ve previously been there in which case I can skip over it.

The only real complaint I have about Snap is that it’s frustrating to try to read an informational site that contains many links, like Wikipedia. Luckily though, Snap can be disabled so it doesn’t have to use up your resources unless you enable it. It’s customizable too, so you can make the preview windows smaller if you find they are taking too long to load.

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