You might want to look at Vembu Home. It has cloud storage + external USB storage + syncing + file sharing. You pay only for cloud storage. http://home.vembu.com
Qwiki, this year's Techcrunch Disrupt winner seems to have a long way to go before it can really be an "Information Experience" that they claim it will be.
The categorization of bookmarks was started with a set of seed urls. It will get better as more and more pages are categorized through it. We will continue to fine tune it.
Good points about the Search lens and about changing the left panel when there are no pages found for the search terms.
We are part of Vembu Technologies. Sekar Vembu, our CEO was one of the founders of Zoho. Vembu Technologies was founded in 2004.
Thanks CWuestefeld. Yes, we did ask for it :-) That is why we love HN and the constructive discussions here.
You raise a very important point. We did discard all the heirarchical structure and the tags. Our initial thought was that tags and folders are not needed as we can search for a bookmark based on terms we remember from the content of the page. However, the fact is that there maybe additional data in the tags and folders and descriptions that may get ignored. We are looking at way to add this data into our index so that it isn't lost.
We are planning on adding the search within the browser extensions. That would make it easy for you to search your Zukmo account without visiting the site.
About signing in through Facebook, it is just an option some users may find useful. They don't have to remember another password. Personally, I find the Twitter sign in option as I don't mind giving out my Twitter credentials. So, we decided to provide all three options: Your own email id/password, Twitter or Facebook.
Thanks vkalladath for the feedback. We are indexing the entire content as well as have an Easy Reader that provides an uncluttered view of the page. Providing support for Kindle is a good idea. We are currently working on iPhone, iPad and Android apps. Will look into Kindle as well.
We do provide bookmarklets. Once you sign into the app, go to the "Account" tab and you will see "Bookmarklet" option.
We do plan on adding Facebook and Twitter streams as well as RSS feeds.
Did you click on the confirm email link twice? The first time you click it, the email is confirmed. The next time, we should show a message saying your email is already confirmed. But, we have a bug that doesn't show the message and redirects you to the register page.
We will recreate this issue and get it fixed ASAP. Do let us know if you are unable to login.
YES. We index most of the common document types. The list includes:
Text (.txt)
HTML (.html, .htm)
XML (.xml)
PDF (.pdf)
Word (.doc)
Excel (.xls)
PowerPoint (.ppt)
Visio (.vso)
Outlook
Archive Files (.zip, .tar)
OpenDocument (.odf)
Java (.java)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Zukmo and historious do let you search the entire content of the page.
However, unlike historious, Zukmo does a lot of additional stuff with the pages that you add to Zukmo. It automatically categorizes them. It also provides an uncluttered view (Easy Reader) similar to Safari Reader and Instapaper Text View. This will come in handy when you view it on mobile devices (we are currently working on apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android). With Zukmo, you can also share on Twitter, Facebook and via email right when you add the page to Zukmo.
Also, other than bookmarks, we will be adding the ability to add your Twitter and Facebook streams as well as RSS feeds into Zukmo.
Thanks, BTBurke. Good point. Indexing the entire content of the page so that you can search for anything within the page is a big part of what we do. However, there are several other things we do that we were trying to show on the landing page. For instance, we have an Easy Reader that shows only the essential content of the page without any ads, headers, menus, javascript etc.(similar to the Safari Reader/Instapaper Text View). The current version of the landing page is an attempt at bringing out all the stuff we do/plan to do.
You are right, though. We need to keep iterating on the messaging of the landing page until it is obvious to users within a few seconds of seeing the page.