kirchhoff

The stories are taken from Google News who themselves aggregrate stories from news sources. The "importance" is defined by the number of media outlets covering a particular story.

I have added a comment reflecting this.

They are taken from the Google News RSS feeds.

I should mention that this is essentially a clone of the excellent NewsMap (www.newsmap.jp), but written in JS instead of Flash.

You're right, that was an error on my part. I have added a new comment.

Yes, it borrows very heavily from NewsMap, a site which I admire but requires Flash.

Should work cross browser / device. Any comments would be welcomed.

Nicely done.

No. Boycotting GoDaddy will have no effect on SOPA, nor will it make them change their tune.

F12 brings up the developer console in some browsers, which lets you view post data.

Seems to break the back button.

Gallery now has an RSS feed.

Working on that right now!

Click the Google logo at the bottom left, it is a link to Google Maps at the location you see.

I generate screenshots of every featured view, to be used as a backup in case Google update their imagery.

Facebook should pickup the preview image if you use the permalink - first button in the 'share this view' panel.

There is a permalink - just below the 'Go' button there's a panel with some sharing options. The first one generates a permalink.

I thought it might be difficult to find - will have to make it more clear, thanks.

I did add comments to the gallery. The first view in the gallery is always the previous day's view of the day, so tomorrow you'll see the tiger in there.

Adding comments to the front page does makes sense, I just couldn't figure out a tidy way of doing it (no space).

Thanks. The design took almost forever, as one of those programmers-who-suck-at-design types.

Using Street View in this way doesn't seem to be on their fee list, so hopefully I will avoid that. Otherwise I will have a problem, serving about 20,000 panoramas per day!

The first view you see is fixed. It changes every day and is chosen from the views people submit (using the 'submit to gallery' button)

Similar to http://imgfave.com ?

Region: Worldwide, Site Type: Google Maps mashup

Firefox: 42% Chrome: 30% IE: 13% Safari: 12% Opera: 2%

Nice exposure for DJ Paul though.

It's really neat. Would be good to see how many players are on.

It's akin to asking if someone with only basic musical knowledge can become a concert pianist in 6 months.

Nothing but a grey background with only header and footer for me.

Fair point, although with email we're talking (for the majority of users) about huge companies which will almost certainly linger.

Doesn't seem wise to entirely trust your data to a single entity. Can we be sure dropbox will still exist in 5, 10 years time?

What happens when your net connection fails?

Local storage will forever be around, in some form.

I submitted a project of mine a while back, but it never gained traction, attracting fewer than 50 visits from HN. It was later picked up by TechCrunch, so objectively it couldn't have been that uninteresting.

I second the suggestion for a separate section for the "Show HN" posts, as it would give each post a better chance of being seen by those willing to provide feedback.

Mozilla should really get their own house in order (re: Firefox 4 huge memory leaks) before calling out add-ons on slow performance.

I think your site is neat. StumbleUpon users, in my experience, tend to show a high bounce rate (often not waiting long enough for a site to load), so they are not a good test case.

If you're still looking to advertise, Adwords might be a better bet, though your niche, as you know, is extremely competitive.

Aside from that, I have a couple of comments on the UI:

1. After clicking a price tag, you get an overlay which looks to be draggable (hand icon) but is not. It also exhibits a disconcerting zoom in/out effect when you zoom the map with the overlay visible.

2. Personally I think the logo wouldn't be totally out of place on a tub of margarine. No offense intended. Objectively, it doesn't match the colour scheme of the site.