It's cool! I like the site. I like the idea. What group of people do you think will use it? I was thinking thinking this would be great for "unsophisticated" users. When I worked as the webmaster for a large school division in Virgina - I always got ask to help employees "create" things on their computers. It was kind of like putting a picture of your kids on your desk or desktop screen saver. When other people visited your office/cube they always ask about your kids. And the social aspect of your idea might fit in too. If you're interested in testing out the "unsophisticated" users angle let me know - I don't work at the school anymore but I still have inroads to to other similar environments.
Very cool technology.<p>Unfortunately, the page looks ugly because I suck at design, and you're making me do the design. So it ends up looking really tacky.<p>Perhaps this "click anywhere and type/edit" technology can be used to annotate webpages (or even iPaper PDFs). I know I'd use it for those purposes if I could.
I've visited your site several times before, and every time I visit I just don't see many people using it. I appreciate the freedom your service offers, but I think even for a customized homepage there is value in structure and organization. As much as Myspace pages vary with annoying background gifs and videos, there is still an underlying framework that adds unity to the site. I think the fact that it's too open might hurt you in the end. On Facebook you have your pics, your wall, your feed, etc., so there are expected components to each page that unite users. Placing anything anywhere on a page would give users a lack of focus and expend energy to use your service because they'd have to forge the connections among their and their friends' pages.<p>I think your click and type anywhere technology, which is very cool, could be applied to other fields as a feature, but I don't think it'd work best as a social network.<p>Best of luck.
Good work! A few notes:<p>Use a colored header and a footer. There are two important reasons to do this: 1) it keeps the non-editable content seperate from the editable content, which makes your site's function clearer. 2) it maintains the webpage metaphor that people have grown accustomed to. My reaction to your site for the first half-second was "wtf?", which I mainly attribute to the fact that the page design gave no indication of where I should look to understand it.<p>Use directional arrows instead of a paw for the "move" icon. The paw looks friendly, but it makes no sense ;)<p>Demonstrate the fonts in the drop-down font menu. Ditto for sizes.<p>Don't allow the "People on ClutterMe" section to load more than one person with the same photo.
Very cool, dude... I don't know much about the web design industry, etc., but maybe you can get multiple revenue streams going by using this technology for a variety of applications. Maybe Web-based photo annotation? Web-base architectural diagram creation? Just a thought... seemed like cool tech that could be used for a lot of different things.
Not exactly the most user friendly interface. I kept trying to type anywhere into the google search box. :P<p>Not bad. However, I agree with aneesh. Probably better used for annotation.
Wow...<p>Very simple, but really nice. It needs some work on usability and design though. If you get that rigth it's a winner. There are some great possibilities in sharing pages too.
while at PyCon I was talking to John Draper (Captain Crunch) and he brought up some idea (although I don't remember the specifics) that made me think of your site. I tried to remember the URL so I can show him your site but I couldn't remember it.