Comments on: Give the Tablet PC “conversation tracker” a try http://www.lorenheiny.com/2008/02/04/give-the-tablet-pc-conversation-tracker-a-try/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:04:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: LCH http://www.lorenheiny.com/2008/02/04/give-the-tablet-pc-conversation-tracker-a-try/comment-page-1/#comment-3136 LCH Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:18:07 +0000 http://www.lorenheiny.com/2008/02/04/give-the-tablet-pc-conversation-tracker-a-try/#comment-3136 Thanks for the suggestions Ken. Yeah, the layout is in transition right now. In fact, there's no design per se yet. Probably need to move that up the list now as at least we have some "live" data to render. Thanks for the suggestions Ken. Yeah, the layout is in transition right now. In fact, there’s no design per se yet. Probably need to move that up the list now as at least we have some “live” data to render.

]]> By: KenH http://www.lorenheiny.com/2008/02/04/give-the-tablet-pc-conversation-tracker-a-try/comment-page-1/#comment-3094 KenH Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:11:19 +0000 http://www.lorenheiny.com/2008/02/04/give-the-tablet-pc-conversation-tracker-a-try/#comment-3094 I took a quick look at the Tablet PC one and I like the concept/idea. This would lead me to stuff that I would miss otherwise. But also when I look at the result page it looks suspiciously similar to the random link farms that pages host to try and attract advertising clicks / google search results. So I think some kind of branding or graphic design that makes it clear it's something more useful and focused than that would really help. Of course if something like this was hosted as part of your blog or GottaBeMobile or whatever that would largely address that. Also wrt the layout, having the link summaries span the whole display made the reading seem disjointed. If I size my browser down to about 550 pixels across (roughly what you have in your screenshot) then I like the way the text flows with longer breaks between the headlines. But when I fire up my browser typically it's maximized or close to that, so it is much wider than that and the layout doesn't look good to me. The summaries seemed to be about the right amount of text. I also found it strange that the "Linking" blog was given a hyperlink but not the main blog that hosts the story. Acutally, I am not sure I understand why the linking blog is shown at all - but I assume there is a good reason for this :-) I took a quick look at the Tablet PC one and I like the concept/idea. This would lead me to stuff that I would miss otherwise.

But also when I look at the result page it looks suspiciously similar to the random link farms that pages host to try and attract advertising clicks / google search results. So I think some kind of branding or graphic design that makes it clear it’s something more useful and focused than that would really help. Of course if something like this was hosted as part of your blog or GottaBeMobile or whatever that would largely address that.

Also wrt the layout, having the link summaries span the whole display made the reading seem disjointed. If I size my browser down to about 550 pixels across (roughly what you have in your screenshot) then I like the way the text flows with longer breaks between the headlines. But when I fire up my browser typically it’s maximized or close to that, so it is much wider than that and the layout doesn’t look good to me.

The summaries seemed to be about the right amount of text.

I also found it strange that the “Linking” blog was given a hyperlink but not the main blog that hosts the story. Acutally, I am not sure I understand why the linking blog is shown at all – but I assume there is a good reason for this :-)

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