13 Responses for "Delicious Library — Keep track of your stuff"

1. Derek

   November 1st, 2004 at 12:46 pm

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   Looks pretty cool, I saw it a while back and am on their notification list. I need something to keep track of all these ripped movies… I already can’t remember what I have. :) I hope the app works as nicely as it looks.

2. Steve

   November 1st, 2004 at 9:49 pm

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   Price has already been announced - US$39.95

3. JC

   November 1st, 2004 at 9:55 pm

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   Well, steve, it’s not on their website.

   And I should have mentioned in my post, they’re being assholes and blocking MSIE, even though the site renders perfectly in it if you make it pretend it’s firefox. Bloody fantastic way to make money, blocking out the browser most people use… even if they are mac-only, that’s just damned stupid… plenty of people have both, and use MSIE for their primary on the PC.

   Ah well.

4. Ragnarok

   November 2nd, 2004 at 9:09 pm

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   Why is it stupid that the site does not support IE? First you say it’s mac-only and then contradict the statement with “plenty of people have both, and use MSIE for their primary on the PC”.

   So which is it? A site that caters to the IE PC market but does not sell any PC products, or a site that caters to the Safari/Firefox Mac market and sells Mac only products?

   And as Steve said… It’s $39.95 and has been posted on the site since launch. I’m not trying to infuriate you further. I’m just pointing out the obvious.

5. JC

   November 2nd, 2004 at 10:08 pm

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   Let’s see… First off, please, please, show me where the price is posted. I looked over every single bit of the website before I posted this, and I didn’t see a price anywhere. The only dollar sign on the site is something about 800 dollar industrial strength software, there’s not a single instance of “39″ anywhere in the source code of either page.

   Second, yes, blocking IE is stupid. Stupid and arrogant. And it’s not a matter of “not supporting” IE, they’re explicitly blocking it. It’s one thing to have a site not look perfect in IE because you don’t want to screw with getting it to render properly (like FG — the spacing on the bulleted lists is off in IE), it’s an entirely different thing to specifically detect IE browsers and shunt them off to an error page. It was stupid when “IE-only” sites were doing it to non-IE browsers, and it’s even more stupid here. The goal should always be maximum exposure. The site should be at least moderately usable even in crusty old browsers like netscape 4… even if it looks like crap, people can still get the idea and say… hey, this is cool, I bet my buddy the mac guy would like it! and send it on.

   And I don’t see what your confusion is with my statement. The software is Mac only. But there are a boatload of people who use both mac and PC who might be trying to check this on their PC. I know I got the link at work from a friend, opened it up on my win2k box there, in IE, and no dice. Opened it in firefox and it was fine. Now, I’m all for promoting non-IE browsers, and I love my ibook like some people love good wine or bad television, but any way you slice it, intentionally cutting out IE is just bloody stupid. I haven’t tested it on the mac version of IE, which is STILL the primary mac browser last I checked, though that’s been a long time (but you figure all those OS9 people who haven’t moved use it, and anyone who got OSX before safari came out and isn’t savvy enough to have switched to safari have to make up a sizeable number).

   Anyway, the app looks cool, I may buy it just to help me catalog my stuff, but they lose some major points with me by not supporting normal webcams and from their website intentionally blocking IE.

6. Ragnarok

   November 3rd, 2004 at 4:12 am

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   You know what. I have to honestly apologize about the $39.95 remark. It is NOT posted on their site. But I have read it so many times in articles that I assumed it was common knowledge. I admit I was a bit quick to throw out the fact it was on the web site. But it IS $39.95 I can point to many articles which quote this (type delicious library cost in google). Not sure if you are just upset they didn’t list it on the site or if you weren’t believing Steve post. Does it really matter that it’s not posted on their site yet? There’s nothing to download either at this point. Surely on the 8th there will be both a download for you to try out along with a price and shopping cart. I can’t believe you knock them for this.

   As far as IE goes. You’re a Mac user and PC user. Fine. But you openly admit that you primarily use IE on your PC? How can Firefox be your backup? We constantly patch IE (and Windows) at my place of work. The frequency is such that it has become a full time position for one of our IS guys (and this is being deployed via Radia to 500 PCs). It not only renders incorrectly and promotes poor coding standards, but you continue to use it. Just because it is the dominant browser does not mean it is the best choice. How can you be upset that they are forcing people to use a browser that will give them tabbed browsing, cookie/ad control and most importantly more security and less malware?

   People like yourself will have no problem launching an alternative browser on a PC or waiting to get home to your Mac to view the site. IE is in no way the dominant browser on OS X. You mention all the OS 9 IE users… Delicious Library does not work on OS 9. You’re not convincing me here.

   Anyway. The software itself will be simply amazing and will break new ground. Read Dan Wood’s weblog to see what he has to say: http://weblog.karelia.com/MacOSX/DeliciousLibrary.html

   I am eagerly awaiting Library’s release (point me to a better product that uses “normal” webcams on any platform). I find it disconcerting that you find fault with the company over its web site and lack of pricing before it’s release. Again, it’s really, REALLY $39.95. You are able to get to the site via Firefox PC and Safari/Firefox/Camnio on your Mac. I hope you use IE on Win2k as your default browser is due to ActiveX controls required by 3rd party business solutions and not just because its convenient.

7. JC

   November 3rd, 2004 at 10:56 am

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   Actually, firefox is my default, followed by Maxthon (an IE wrapper). I’m a web developer. Most of the people looking at my stuff use IE. It would be fairly irresponsible of me not to use IE, no?

   I’m sure the software will be great. I still think it’s intensely stupid and arrogant to deliberately block anyone from accessing any website for any reason (other than “you haven’t paid your access fee,” of course)

   As for the price… I didn’t search for this on google. Someone sent me the link and I read their site and thought that despite the problem with their site, it was interesting enough to deserve a mention on FG, where a fair portion of the audience uses alternate browsers or operating systems anyway. But hell, man, if you’re selling a product and you’ve already announced the price all over the world, why on earth would you not list it on the site that’s going to be selling the product… they even have a countdown to the day it goes on sale… why not the price? That’s the sort of thing you usually find on ridiculously overpriced software targeted at enterprise users, not a nifty tool for your mac.

8. Stephen Ellett

   November 4th, 2004 at 2:55 pm

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   I actually find it very humorous that they don’t support IE. Its a protest by former Omni employees I assume. So its a specific choice by them and no way makes them stupid. Arrogant, maybe. I would guess any sales they loose because they don’t support IE will be negligible.

9. Andy

   November 26th, 2004 at 1:57 am

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   Now that we’ve established 1) the price and 2) the reasons we all use or don’t use IE on a Mac or a PC….I have a comment.

   I downloaded the app, tried it out, decided to buy it. I have spent a couple of hours scanning away with iSight, zapping everything in my house that sports a bar code. So far so good.

   So now all my stuff is in my Mac. So…..now what? It seems like the best ‘next step’ for this app is to create a “sharing” model where something like one of these scenarios is possible:

   1) an iTunes-like sharing of libraries among machines on the same network. I can opt to show people my collections and I can view theirs. Some linkage would let me surf other collections for info - such as suggestions (beyond Amazon’s lame suggestions, where if you buy the first Harry Potter they say “You might enjoy the second Harry Potter.”).

   2) A community functionality where as part of a profile in an online networking environment (I use LinkedIn, Spoke, etc.) people in my network could view and/or search my library for stuff…say I have been reading Nabokov and notice a colleague has some that I have not read - bingo, my network has value because I get the book from him, and the tracking etc. is automated via Delicious.

   Not sure this makes sense…

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    April 1st, 2005 at 5:52 pm

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11. bingo my

    November 14th, 2005 at 1:15 am

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    lol, the comments here are funny

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    March 27th, 2007 at 5:23 am

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    March 27th, 2007 at 6:53 am

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