Ask HN: Please review my new project: almost.at

I am not sure what it does, but it looks fucking gorgeous.

This is fantastic! I could see myself paying for the ability to set up feeds to share with other people during an event.<p>It's also nice to see Cappuccino being used for something outside of 280 North. :)

I used Cappuccino to build the front-end, so thanks go to the 280 North guys!

Man, I love what Cappuccino can do. It looks really slick. However, on a top-end Mac Pro with 6gb of RAM in Safari 4 beta and Firefox 3.5 beta, its sloooooow. Everything is just really jerky and non-responsive while trying to navigate around.<p>All that aside, its a really great interface. Soon as you enable some additional functionality (like search) and speed up the interface, this will be something I want to come to.

Beautiful, beautiful interface. Worked perfectly smoothly on my MacBook 2.2Ghz with 2GB ram. Am very jealous. Makes the interface of my AJAXified web app - www.gambolio.com - look a tad amateurish. Mine was done using jQuery, btw.

Very cool. Easy quick improvement: add "cursor: pointer" to the CSS of the event links on the left-hand side. That will make it easier for the user to tell he should click on them.

Hm. Doesn't work on linux in Firefox Minefield , Opera 9.63 or in Konqueror 3.5.8. I only get a spinner for a few seconds - followed by a blank screen.<p>In windows firefox it works (a bit sluggish, though).<p>Anyways, apart from that problem and a few minor bugs it's a really nice tech-demo. I don't see myself using such a service, but you might find some followers in the twitter crowd.

I played around with it for a bit and thought it was quite cool. Then just as I was about to click close I saw the wierd slider thing at the bottom and though - ah that would be so awesome if I could slide it and.... OH COOL!<p>Kudos.

You must be getting hammered by traffic; I just gave ya 30 seconds to load.. I'll try again later.

Very cool! When I watched the Air France stream, many of the items were in foreign languages. You could offload language detection to the Google Languages AJAX API to allow filtering by language, or even better, automatic translation on-the-fly ;)

Fascinating. Would be nice if you labeled the three columns, (The first is twitter mentions, the second flickr and the third everything else?)<p>But it looks like a great way of visualizing developing stories, with the downside being that you can only really track one thing at a time.<p>How are you dealing with reducing noise from stuff that you pull from twitter or the web?

I think it's pretty cool looking. One question, one concern: 1) Are events added manually? They certainly seem well-enough targeted that I could see them being so. But the flip side of that is that there's a lot of other events of a similar nature, but with less of a geeky focus, that I'm afraid I wouldn't see. If they're not manually added, how are you ensuring that all events that could be potentially targeted are included?<p>2) It might be nice to include a throttle for the refresh speed. 5 seconds, for a high-volume item like the BEA, was total information overload.<p>EDIT: I should be more precise about #2. I'm seeing that even though it's been constantly refreshing every 5 sec for a couple minutes, it's still up to May 29. So maybe it's not actually that high-volume, but there's still something going on where I'm seeing a hard-to-follow stream of text.

Looks great! This is definitely one of those first apps which will help give people an idea of what Cappuccino can do.<p>One bug I noticed: Expanding the left column seems to have some issues. More specifically, the content doesn't seem to expand with it until you click on another event. (In Safari 4 on a Mac)

Neat idea, but this is unusably slow on my PC (Firefox 3, Core 2 Duo 2ghz).

It looks good! I had a few problems though:<p>It appears you can pause individual columns but clicking on the pause button doesn't work (in Firefox at least)<p>The columns should have titles<p>The last column (Links) keeps the background title over the text (in Firefox at least)<p>Selecting different stories on the left seems not to work some of the time and there is no pointer icon when hovering over them (in Firefox at least)<p>I think you need a page explaining what is going on and how the site works because it seems to assume you already know.

Looks really nice, but perhaps a little buggy? I'm using Opera 9.64 on XP and when trying to view the stream about the missing France flight, I was only able to get two of three streams at a time. The third would show a paused icon in the top right. First, the Twitter stream was paused; after I clicked around the timeline, the Twitter stream started working but the pictures frame emptied and stopped working.<p>Great stuff overall.

All I see is a timer and then just a black screen. I'm using Opera 9.64 on x86_64 Linux. I'm sad because the other comments make it sound awesome.

Cool that you list tweet links from major news sources!<p>When a user clicks on CNN, BBC or others could you not on the left most side bring up the article they clicked so they dont go to another site? Would be a UI thing, but I would never leave the page and I could click and read all the news stories about X, while staying within your site.

It looks gorgeous, but I have one question about web pages that look like applications: what happens when I leave the page and later want to come back? Is there a "save" button?<p>On my computer, I can come back to my data very easily. The next time I open an app, everything is where I left it. Does Capuccino work the same way?

Love the interface and the real-time aggregation thing. However I think it would be even better if one could submit the topic to be searched and aggregated for --&#62; not limited to events chosen by you. For instance I'd like to find mention of my company at specific times (during a viral campaign, etc.)

I'm not sure if this is intentional or a browser bug (I'm using Chrome so anything Webkit/Safari should be the same) but at the bottom of the menu panel on the left I see a resize button (bottom right of left panel). If I resize the panel, the menu itself doesn't resize, only the right side menus shrink.

I am not sure it's working correctly on Chrome. Here's what I see: <a href="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/almost.at.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/almost.at.jpg</a><p>I gave up trying to figure out what to do after about a minute.

Beautiful! Rocks on FireFox 3.0.10 on Fedora 10. I expected it to be slow, but was pleasantly surprised to see the overall speed after initial loading was over. The '5 seconds remaining' idea is elegant.

It looks pretty professional. Sort of interesting too. If there was a way to automatically get hashtags or news stories or submit possible stories that might be a way to improve the service.

congrats on getting techcrunch covered

Font aliasing in the bottom timeline is not working for me. Running Google Chrome on Vista. Screenshot:<p><a href="http://screencast.com/t/zhoSHkz1Q" rel="nofollow">http://screencast.com/t/zhoSHkz1Q</a>

nice job. let me guess, you own a Mac? :) Beautiful UI. mouse cursor over items on left remained as arrow for me. Maybe hover color or hand cursor?

I gave it about 30 seconds to load and then left. I saw it was just TC'd so maybe I'll try back in a few days.

Amazing interface.<p>Favicon maybe a bit too reminiscent of Alexa.

very nice interface. thanks for adding #cricket. :)

Eye candy sells, especially for toys. iPhone is an icon because of an eye candy, visual effects and primitiveness - the stuff for masses.<p>This is really very good toy - just sit and watch and sometimes read, but not much (140 chars of very simple language) - that is exactly what a people wants from time waster.

Of course it doesn't work in my Konqueror :)

uuuh...guys? I think Bing might be better than Google....what do I do?