We recently launched the alpha release of Zukmo, a service that is our attempt at solving Information Overload (http://www.zukmo.com).<p>If you come across any interesting content, you can add it to Zukmo with a single click using the browser button. It could be a bookmark, it could be an interesting person you see on Twitter, it could be an RSS feed or it could be your notes or to do list. We will process the content that gets added to Zukmo and make it easy for you to consume it on most devices.<p>The alpha release has the bookmarking component complete. Once a bookmark is added, you can search for it by using any term from within the content of the page.<p>Is this a service you that solves a problem for you? Any suggestions on features that will make the service more usable/attractive?<p>HN is pretty much our launch pad. We haven't publicised it much until now. Any feedback you could give is greatly appreciated.
I spent a few minutes thinking about why I would want this service. It wasn't immediately clear to me what benefit it would provide over something like delicious or just standard bookmarking features in your browser -- then I got it... it indexes the page and lets me search for what I'm looking for later using the full content, rather than just the tags I assigned or information that can be found in the URL or page title. That's something you might want to make more obvious for users that only spend 30 sec on your landing page. Bring out the value proposition right away in simple language, rather than making them wonder what the difference is between filtering, crawling, indexing, recommending, etc.
I don't use stumbleupon, but first thing i thought when I saw your page is "wow thats a big stumble upon icon". And when i compared them, they are pretty similar, just rotated.
How is this different from historious? I use historious and instapaper to save bookmarks and read later, and I am extremely happy with the service. I might jump in if your service provided features of both, ie: indexing my bookmarks and making it available on my kindle.<p>Also do you provide bookmarklets instead of the firefox plugin? It would be easier for those of us who use multiple machines and may not be able to install plugins on all.<p>I do like the idea of indexing content other than just webpages, like youtube videos, rss , twitter etc. Does your system handle Twitter and RSS updates also?<p>I will be back with more feedback after I start using the service.
It looks promising. Some of my initial comments.<p>It imported the bookmarks from Firefox just fine. But the categorization of the bookmarks is, sorry to be critical, but buggy. Examples I can say are,<p>1) Techmeme, Engadget, Techcrunch etc. pages not in Sci/Tech.
2) Cricinfo, ESPN, ManUtd pages not in Sports.
3) A page on Microsoft and Cleartype was placed in Entertainment!!
4) MSBuild tutorial on Health!<p>and so on. You need to fix this real quick I believe. As it's one of your main selling point.<p>1) The Search lens image can be clickable. I atleast expected it to be.Only way is to press Enter key.
2) If the search result don't return any results, don't change the categories left panel from general to search specific.<p>Overall I like it and may use it.<p>Besides, are you associated with AdventNet/Zoho? Just wanted to check as you have put a footnote for Vembu Technologies. Are they both related even? I might be mistaken.
Problems here on Ubuntu/Firefox. No problem with the account set-up. No problem with the Firefox plug-in install.<p>When I try to add this page, I get the "Adding this page..." but after a few seconds I get another window that has "Zukmo" at the top in large text, but the window is not large enough to contain further text. This latter window disappears after a second or less.<p>I think the window is asking me to log-in. But I am logged in to Zukmo.<p>One further thing. Forcing an icon into the status bar without the option to switch it off is a show-stopper for me. It's a decision that doesn't scale. If every plug-in did this, then the status bar would be a mess and its usefulness reduced.
I consume more information offline than online .. I think.<p>Plan to make this a desktop utility as well, something that integrates with the desktop that allows you to right-click and "Zukmo" any given file. Even if you have to fake it by copying files to a temp directory and later sync them with your servers (why? better keep it private on users' machines.)<p>You will need integration with (MS|Open) Office sometime in the distant future.<p>Call Insync and see if you can integrate with their clients:<p><a href="https://www.insynchq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.insynchq.com/</a><p>P.S. Nice clojure-like logo :-)
When I tried to confirm my email, I get redirected to:
<a href="http://zukmo.com/register.html?err=rk_invalid" rel="nofollow">http://zukmo.com/register.html?err=rk_invalid</a><p>Also, If I try using the twitter button on that page to login, It throws the following error when it redirects to <a href="http://www.zukmo.com/twitter?oauth_token=_____________" rel="nofollow">http://www.zukmo.com/twitter?oauth_token=_____________</a><p>"java.lang.NullPointerException"
Search works well. Yes, the auto-categorization needs some tweaking, but I don't see that as the key benefit. Automatic indexing of destination content - that's what's really useful about Zukmo. The comment on highlighting this benefit is quite relevant in this context!
Looks interesting. I'll test it.<p>Just created an account. First comment :<p><pre><code> * it would be nice if the account creation page was SSL'ed.
* The Firefox extension is a nice touch. I'll tell you how it goes, too.</code></pre>
Also .. The chrome extension's text overflows and could be confusing. You might want to look at that.<p><a href="http://cl.ly/c3f4661fe6f0ff3f3857" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/c3f4661fe6f0ff3f3857</a>