Two Snaps & a Circle! Feed Back Needed
January 5th, 2007
Written By: Adam Sussman
I just signed up for Snap Preview Anywhere and implemented the Snap Wordpress Plugin for it. If you put your mouse over any hyperlink you should be able to see a preview for the sites I’m linking @.
Seriously, what do you think? Is it lame or cool?
January 5th, 2007 12:21
I actully quite like it. I saw it the other day on another website and added it to my blog todo list. Which means of course I’ll probably never get to it but still…:)
January 5th, 2007 13:45
Hated it.
January 5th, 2007 13:47
That’s pretty cool.
January 5th, 2007 13:51
Hawaii, why?
January 5th, 2007 14:39
I’m torn on it. I’ve seen it in lots of places and I can’t quite decide if I really like it or I’m really annoyed by it.
Good - cool feature, gives you a quick glimpse at a website.
Bad - first time I saw it I thought I had spyware on my computer or that it was an Intelitxt type of ad.
So I’m still up in the air on it and that’s why I haven’t put it on any of my sites yet.
January 5th, 2007 15:12
I’ll admit it - I hate it. It’s more anoying that anything - I judge whether I want to visit a link by the link itself, not some tiny thumbnail -sized image that you can’t read any of the text in anyways!
January 5th, 2007 15:39
I also saw this on another blog and thought it was cool as well. It was a snapshot of my site and so that might have been one reason but i thought it was rather cool.
Things i would look at though.
1. The snapshot is too small to really see the page your going to in any detail. So if the layout of a site is something that draws you then great.
2. I dont want to be interupted when i read. Most of the time i tend to follow words with my mouse. Just a habit of mine. If i get a pop up anything it interupts me and depending on my temperment for the day will actually frustrate me.
3. I think that alot of cool features are available that in my opinion do not really add anything even though they are very cool.
Take Flash for instance.
I am really really trying to think of something good about it and the only thing is that it does add something kind web2.0 ish and looks fancy.
January 5th, 2007 16:27
Great feedback!
January 5th, 2007 22:28
Nice feature. Can you set it to only do it on external links?
January 6th, 2007 10:55
Ogletree, excellent question. I just checked and the answer is yes. I have set it to show only external links. I think this looks better.
January 9th, 2007 16:18
I have it on my blogs and quite like it - interesting to see the comments here though - I find it useful - I find I am following links to attractive looking sites - and some when I see the preview I don’t bother. I also have cooliris addon for firefox which does give me near full page preview so I can properly look at a page before deciding to go there.
Rikki
January 9th, 2007 19:02
Lame.
I had this on my old blog after seeing it on Marketing Pilgrim, but it gets very annoying for readers, like Brent said. It won’t keep me from visiting, but I would prefer it not there.
January 10th, 2007 18:17
In all honesty, this sort of blog super-technology does nothing but annoy me. Perhaps I’m just a Luddite—no, scratch that, I’m a writer—but I feel strongly that your text should be compelling enough to drive readers to click through.
Snap just gets in the way, covering up the text I want to read and startling the hell out of me when I accidentally run my mouse over a link.
Not like I have an opinion on it, or anything!
January 12th, 2007 03:01
I hate this particular scriptlet. The first I know about it is that the silly thing pops up and starts some extra http activity.
It means being carefull where I leave my mouse or I could have some damn lump of an interstatial cover the text I was looking at.
I’m considering designing a firefox addin to block this script - I probably will not get it done but…
January 12th, 2007 16:30
[…] Unfortunately they might very well pull me off that list when they read this post. If you are not sure who Snap is, might I suggest you pop over to my post from last week on Snap Preview Anywhere, it’s a real quick read. Then when you are done you can come back and finish reading this post. […]
May 14th, 2008 18:03
I fing snap annoying and pointless. This small thumbnail takes so much time to load and you can’t tell anything about websites content from it. I rather click and push the backspace button. Faster and more efficient.