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Looks pretty interesting... however a small UI suggestion.... it seems to occupy a fair amount of the available screen space. How about something like a "bitcrumb powered searchbox" in the browser itself as opposed to a panel on the left??

That's a great idea, it would be an elegant solution to the screen real estate issue. Thanks!

The thing is, this is something I'd like Google and YouTube -- especially YouTube -- to store for me on their site. I can't test your extension because I'm stuck with Fox 2.x (slow PC), but it does sound interesting and might fill a need.

Thanks Mike, we wanted to take advantage of some functionality that is available only in the newest versions, and then in the very near future get it also working for older versions.

You make a good point about Google, YouTube and other sites just storing this directly. Ultimately that's definitely the direction the web's heading.

One point that is worth considering is that it is somewhat useful to have all of this together in one place, rather than "walled" into separate sites all over the web. That's something we've done in this app, that it would be tough for any one site to do.

If you are like us, you do a ton of searches across different sites, and you don't bookmark the searches, and your broswer history just captures them chronologically. That kind of works, but we are moving towards a world where people need to recall their searches from multiple devices, across multiple browsers, from any location.

This is a tool we built to try and help with that, and we'd love to hear what you think.

just a small suggestion: May be you can put a small video on the website explaining what bitcrumb does and how does it work.

Will do so soon, after we buy our first tuxedos. btw - I am the other half of BitCrumb.

hey nice to meet you... although i haven't really : )

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