Comments on: WebSlices now appearing in a Wikipedia article near you

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:17:30 +0000

In answer to your question about implementations beyond eBay, FB etc… Yes I’m with a company called Me.dium, we make a social-browsing add-on, and MSFT actually presented our WebSlice Discovery and Activity pieces at the IE8 launch. We’d love for you to check it out and give us your thoughts.

http://www.me.dium.com/ie8

Me.dium username: pjn

By: yaman

yaman — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:21:46 +0000

Check out winamp’s browser “build 5.52 latest” acid3 test screen shot:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22598854@N02/2374341313/

By: Jote

Jote — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:08:46 +0000

marco – you haven’t heard about exaflood, have you. You must be from US…

By: Cullen D

Cullen D — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:34:12 +0000

@anon: Exit 90s, stage left. (M$ — come one…)

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:45:39 +0000

@marco: “for me exactly not. i can check the whole webiste within a second.”

The point is that you don’t -have- to check the website.

” i understand that this would make sense on dial up connections or slow broadband, but with nowadays modern connections?”

It has nothing to do with bandwidth. It’s about notifications, instead of manually surfing to a website periodically to see if something has changed.

By: someone else

someone else — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:45:26 +0000

@anon: sarcasm.

By: someone

someone — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:14:11 +0000

Dragging and scrolling down in that webslice shows the bottom part.

By: Michael Mc

Michael Mc — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:33:05 +0000

I think it's quite a useful feature as a complement (I hope that's the correct usage) to RSS. But, what percentage of the internet actually use RSS? Outside of my more technical-minded friends, nobody I know actually uses it and I think that's the way WebSlices will go.

By: Kip

Kip — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:23:39 +0000

I added a webslice to our MSFT-YHOO Documents Timeline page, which gets added to periodically (but by no means regularly or daily), and is a good candidate for Webslices, I think. A couple of thoughts though:
-need more control over what shows up in the webslice window. Cutting off the bottom is a problem, etc.
-I can see the “favorites (links)” toolbar being filled up very quickly. What happens if webslices takes off and you subscribe to 20 or 50 webslices? A webslice reader? Webslice reading in your RSS reader?
-would be good to have some better clues on the page/site that webslices are available

By: Keff

Keff — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:19:59 +0000

Yert: Yes! Let’s see how will opensource people react to the fact that nothing important happened in the field of browsers until MS came out with that old despised IE8 .

I actually like this feature, it will certainly come handy in some situations (being notified of update of my sports club race list etc.).