Archive for the 'Snap Speaks' Category

iA: Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0 with Snap Shots
As cross posted on a number of high profile blogs this past weekend, iA a strategic design agency in Tokyo, Japan, has enabled their online version of their subway 'Web Trend Map' with Snap Shots!

Introducing Snap Shots™ Add-On for Firefox
Snap Shots Add-On for Firefox brings the usefulness of Snap Shots to ALL websites, not just the ones that have our server side javascript implementation, enhancing your browsing experience with the right content at the right place and time. Imagine your most frequently visited sites each now having Snap Shots [...]

I patiently waited in line to get my iPhone and last week reported that FedEx dropped the units when they came in. After about 3 hours of standing in line (some people were there since that Tuesday [see previous post]) I was able to get mine. At exactly 6:45pm I walked out of the […]

Snap Water - More Pictures
OK, OK, so I chose that headline because it would get me links and blog traffic to the Apple iPhone… but seriously… We saw the people in line in the blazing heat outside the Pasadena Apple Store and had to help them poor souls out. So, what did we do? We […]

Session 607 at WWDC 2007 - More Photos
This past week Snap was a guest presenter at the honored Apple World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco (June 11th – 15th, 2007).
Snap was represented by Mike Agostino (CTO) and Jason Fields (Product Evangelist, Emerging Technology), and they jointly presented on the challenges in developing cross […]

RSS Shot with Settings Showing Preview/Feed Display Options
Earlier this week we launched an enhancement to the RSS Shot. The ability to switch between the RSS Shot or a Preview Shot. In this way people can set their own defaults on how and when they want to see Previews or RSS Feed items. I think this […]

Now that Snap has announced the RSS Shot, we would like to share some technical details that might be of interest to our users and publishers.
The goal of the RSS Shot is to leverage information from feeds (RSS 1.0/2.0, Atom) we find when crawling the web, and use it to provide our users […]

Since the DIGG Expose mash-up blog post hit the front page of DIGG, we have received numerous requests for documentation and use of the Snap Shots Preview API. We wanted to take this opportunity to clarify that usage of our images is on an ad-hoc and permission based publisher service agreement basis at this time.
As […]

While reorganizing my bookmarks I came across Jacob Nielsen's Alertbox from Dec 4, 2006:

A classic dilemma all designers face…

On one hand: Users want control; features and enough options to handle any situation.
On the other hand: Users want simplicity; they don't have time learn a profusion of features in enough depth to select the few that […]

Screenshot of hCard on Snap 'Contact Us' Page
In an effort to be supportive of the Microformats standard we have recently implemented an hCard on the Contact Us page of the Snap.com site. Tantek this ones for you!
Snap 'Contact Us' Page