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A cloud platform like nothing else out there

storm.io

2 pointsmatehat6 comments

The client platform's implementation of scrolling is entirely irrelevant here. The content is still beneath the fold, and thus the user must scroll down to view it.

You've managed to ruin the single — and critical — piece of user interaction required to view your site's [meaningless] content.

That said, it is pretty.

Thanks everyone for the feedbacks. The scrolling thing is fixed.

Keep in mind that it's a teaser. We decided to show the ideology, then we'll show the technology to those that sign up for the beta, with an invitation to play with it.

And trust me, you'll be blown away

i wasn't able to scroll up in firefox 12 or chrome (on fedora ) when it says to scroll up to see what it is.

In OS-X scroll up and scroll down have been switched, to more closely mimmick touch controls on an ipad/iphone.

So, the wording is wrong .. you need to scroll down. But don't bother, there's not any meaningfull content there.

Just a bunch of empty buzz words. No explanation to how this cloud is different, what technology it uses, which principles are being applied.

Here's the full text text, feel free to puke:

>What is Stormio? >SCROLL UP TO FIND OUT

For everybody on older versions of OS-X, Windows, Linux, BSD, etc. you need to scroll down.

>Stormio is from wanting to make greater meaning out of the profusion of tools and content on the web. Going a few steps further.

Yeah. That's great. Nobody else is trying to do that. Good thing those guys have that intention, right?

>Stormio is from reaching past the functional and the reliable, into the realm of the convenient and the enjoyable, so users and developers alike can get to the meaningful.

Still don't what it is, or what it does. But hey, if it's fun and enjoyable, it must be the perfect solution for our everyday problems, right?

>Stormio is from rethinking the basics of computing and development for the cloud, so creators can focus on pushing the limits and on great user experience, not technical details.

Wow. I'm impressed. No technical details. Yeah! Thank god, somebody finally solved the magic code.

>Stormio is from seeing in the cloud an opportunity to build a sustainable economy based on what the consumer finds valuable, not annoying. An economy that benefits to everyone, from those providing value to those consuming it.

Unlike, you know, a normal economy, where we are bothered with empty marketing speak.

>Stormio is from staying hungry. And foolish.

Spelling and grammar are also 'technical details' you do not have to focus on, apparently.

>Stormio is about doing to the cloud what a great OS could do to personal computing: providing extraordinary scaffolds, for greater value.

Well, at least here's a hint to what it does. Scaffolding?

>Stormio is for the crazy ones. If you are — developer, creator, enthusiast — be part of it.

Yeah, it sounds great, because of the ___ (insert actual feature powered by groundbreaking research here)

There are hundreds products that all make the above claims. I wonder how this one is any different, except for it not being nothing more than a mailing list, at the moment.

that's why i assumed i actually had to scroll up, because i was expecting more info.

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