Comments on: YellowBot: More of the same http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/ Soapboxing every damn day Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:05:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-143619 Tom Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:47:46 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/#comment-143619 Yellowbot is a scam. It lists people's personal information as "businesses". They just scrape other site's listings or have purchased spam lists or mailing lists. Nothing but a lame attempt to rip people off. They also don't respond to any requests to have personal information removed from the site. Avoid this website. Yellowbot is a scam. It lists people’s personal information as “businesses”. They just scrape other site’s listings or have purchased spam lists or mailing lists. Nothing but a lame attempt to rip people off. They also don’t respond to any requests to have personal information removed from the site. Avoid this website.

]]> By: Ahmed http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-1670 Ahmed Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:28:46 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/#comment-1670 In terms of the map - I get you when you talk about jarring experience. But if you keep it centered, figure out the 'area' you are covering, and calculate zoom-out level based on that, it should be fine. Still the same center point, just zoomed out. Advanced search - interesting. Hiding it doesn't help anyone - put an inline popup for that. Add Tags on iBegin - oi?! Seems to work fine for me (just added a few) *Mention on Greg Sterling's blog about frontpage - it isn't that it's broken - it just looks a bit odd. The home icon is overlapping on the input box, and when you do click on it, 'Close x' definitely needs some padding to it. Help/FAQ page - I looked at it, and press back superfast. It seems like too much text, not enough line-height, and not enough whitespace. In terms of the map – I get you when you talk about jarring experience. But if you keep it centered, figure out the ‘area’ you are covering, and calculate zoom-out level based on that, it should be fine. Still the same center point, just zoomed out.

Advanced search – interesting. Hiding it doesn’t help anyone – put an inline popup for that.

Add Tags on iBegin – oi?! Seems to work fine for me (just added a few)

*Mention on Greg Sterling’s blog about frontpage – it isn’t that it’s broken – it just looks a bit odd. The home icon is overlapping on the input box, and when you do click on it, ‘Close x’ definitely needs some padding to it.

Help/FAQ page – I looked at it, and press back superfast. It seems like too much text, not enough line-height, and not enough whitespace.

]]> By: emad http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-1669 emad Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:18:25 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/#comment-1669 sorry...one more thing...advanced search exists. Here it is in the faq: http://www.yellowbot.com/about/faq.html#search sorry…one more thing…advanced search exists. Here it is in the faq:
http://www.yellowbot.com/about/faq.html#search

]]> By: emad http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-1595 emad Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:12:56 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/#comment-1595 P.S. you may want to fix your "ADD TAGS" button on iBegin before Ask reviews it. ;-) P.S. you may want to fix your “ADD TAGS” button on iBegin before Ask reviews it. ;-)

]]> By: emad http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-1594 emad Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:08:41 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/#comment-1594 Hey, Ahmed. Thanks for the feedback. Let me chime on the bounds function. When you first search, the bounds function is used. When you decide to drag or paginate, you cannot simply reuse the boudning function because it is too jarring for the users...their center is thrown off, etc. Good luck with iBegin! Hey, Ahmed.

Thanks for the feedback.

Let me chime on the bounds function. When you first search, the bounds function is used. When you decide to drag or paginate, you cannot simply reuse the boudning function because it is too jarring for the users…their center is thrown off, etc.

Good luck with iBegin!

]]> By: Ahmed http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-1593 Ahmed Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:05:35 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/#comment-1593 Finally - someone to be critical of me! :) I'll reply tomorrow - I'm off to get me some ice cream. Finally – someone to be critical of me! :)

I’ll reply tomorrow – I’m off to get me some ice cream.

]]> By: Ask Bjørn Hansen http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-1584 Ask Bjørn Hansen Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:17:30 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/#comment-1584 "el Paso" - oh yeah, that is really annoying. The code we use to capitalize the data likes to do it like that and we've never gotten around to fixing it. It also gets it wrong (for this use) when a place is called "la" something something. - ask “el Paso” – oh yeah, that is really annoying. The code we use to capitalize the data likes to do it like that and we’ve never gotten around to fixing it. It also gets it wrong (for this use) when a place is called “la” something something.

– ask

]]> By: Ask Bjørn Hansen http://www.solorwell.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-1583 Ask Bjørn Hansen Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:16:10 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/yellowbot-more-of-the-same/#comment-1583 Hi there, Thanks for your feedback! I'll try to get the favor returned with a review of ibegin over on <a href="http://askask.com" rel="nofollow">my weblog</a>. :-) "Why even bother with that"? With what? The thickbox/"inline popup" or the login? The login is for obvious reasons - the "inline popup" is mostly because it's a nicer experience when you initiate the review from the search grid page. Showing the popup before sending you to the review page is, uh, not so clever indeed. I'll get that logged as a bug, thanks! "Url encoding" - Huh? That URL is encoded with the %20's. Or did you mean replacing the space/%20 characters with _'s? That's a good idea, thanks! :-) "Good to know" - yeah, that's fixed in the next version. Usually we do daily releases, but it's held up right now waiting for a couple new things to get finished. "Mapview auto-zooming": Hah - if only it was that simple ... Depending on how it's used then doing the auto-zooming ends up being incredibly confusing (at least in our "hallway testing"). Oh, or did you just mean when you keep adding more results? Hmn, yeah - we need to look into that. We didn't make the mapview search page the default for a reason. ;-) Thanks again! - ask Hi there,

Thanks for your feedback! I’ll try to get the favor returned with a review of ibegin over on my weblog. :-)

“Why even bother with that”? With what? The thickbox/”inline popup” or the login? The login is for obvious reasons – the “inline popup” is mostly because it’s a nicer experience when you initiate the review from the search grid page.

Showing the popup before sending you to the review page is, uh, not so clever indeed. I’ll get that logged as a bug, thanks!

“Url encoding” – Huh? That URL is encoded with the %20′s. Or did you mean replacing the space/%20 characters with _’s? That’s a good idea, thanks! :-)

“Good to know” – yeah, that’s fixed in the next version. Usually we do daily releases, but it’s held up right now waiting for a couple new things to get finished.

“Mapview auto-zooming”: Hah – if only it was that simple … Depending on how it’s used then doing the auto-zooming ends up being incredibly confusing (at least in our “hallway testing”). Oh, or did you just mean when you keep adding more results? Hmn, yeah – we need to look into that. We didn’t make the mapview search page the default for a reason. ;-)

Thanks again!

– ask

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