amitamb

VerticalSet is offering similar functionality. DuckDuckGo is starting to go in the same direction.

http://www.verticalset.com/

Although aim is same to make search engine a platform, technologically it is rather different. Would love to hear feedback on this.

> In general, development and ownership of search and social should become more open and distributed just as telephony, electricity, operating systems, and so many more large industries before it.

I am working on an effort to do that called VerticalSet. It is a search engine/platform to let developers change search experience the way they want while giving users best search experience.

http://www.verticalset.com/

See blog post for more details

http://blog.verticalset.com/launching-verticalset

There are many innovations involved in this platform and would love to get feedback on what you think of it as a search engine and more importantly as a platform.

I intend to change from current closed nature of search engines to more open one where any developer can control what appears in search results.

If I understand correctly, you are referring to https://www.google.com/history/

Then it can track only links you click on Google websites. So you clicking on your friend's profile in Facebook will not get logged in here. Unless it is browser extension it can not track * every * link.

Google doesn't know all your Web History. For example it knows which links you clicked in search results but it doesn't know how much time you spent on them, when you closed them or which links you clicked on those pages.

I think you are asking for annotations. I was working on it but I left it for something else.

On live streaming, I don't know if that is the path I want to take as there are other tools doing the same thing.

Thanks for your insights.

No. It just records your browsing (i.e. mouse movements, scrolling and keyboard inputs to the page) without a need for any download. All that happens using JavaScript. So playback is also simple in the sense that only HTML need to be downloaded not the video.

One will play whole recording while other will play single page.

It is useless when there is only one page, and now I think it is useless for first page but for sake of uniformity it is there.

Design is great! Who did it and how can average entrepreneur imitate it.

BTW I thought there will be easy way to import Google reader list but there is none. (I first selected interesting then blank.)

Unfortunately not at present... With what I know, not in near future, since it seems difficult to convert webpage DOM to image->video. One more thing is I want this to be an alternative to video screen-casts in all aspects, and there should be no need to do that conversion.

Relevant blog post: http://amitamb.posterous.com/castbin

Example recording: http://www.channel-surf.heroku.com/pages/4e663322509a9e00010...

You can create demo of your product. Create reading cast for your blog.

Record the sites that you visit daily, and show the world what you visit daily.

Record your session, reading news on HN, and let others view it.

I would like to know how you will use it? Would you like to replay others' browsing to avoid repitition of going through news websites? Any constructive feedback is welcome...