A simple suggestion regarding the design - change the green term highlighting to something less overpowering (such as #ffc or #ffa). For me, just that small change would make an enormous difference.
Yeah, totally agreed. Just a few changes here and there to make the colors less garish and tweaks in the padding would make the content stand out better. Other than that, it's very functional.
I really like what I see. I think it would benefit from a "browsing" entry point as well as a search box, because I often want to see a stimulating lecture, but don't have a subject in mind.
I totally agree. When I land on a new site that has nothing but a search box, my mind goes blank. The recent links are nice, but I think more real estate devoted to really compelling, well-liked content would be really helpful for new people trying to 'get' it.
The site is sweet. I really enjoy finding videos and searching through google is a pain. I can see this website be extremely useful. If you ever need any help with testing let me know.
I would definitely say once you get the core functionality done to work on some UI changes, which would really help out the look and feel.
One minor suggestion: Do not shorten titles so aggressively (or at least add full title to title element). Here's an example: http://talkminer.com/searcher.jsp?q=scalability - all titles are prefixed by "Seattle Conference on Scalability:" and then almost all of the real title gets cut off.
Those short titles are coming from youtube. That is, the original youtube page for those videos has the 'truncated' titles. TalkMiner isn't truncating them.
At first I thought this was another "launch" of a skinned, Google custom search. Those tend to fade away when the curator loses interest, etc.
But looking at your about page it seems to be different, looks like you're doing an interesting and useful thing to find/index talks, good luck with the site!
I like the all-slide thumbnail view, that will be really useful.
This is a cool idea, I haven't seen something like this that's all encompassing. Ted.com is huge for talks within it's sphere, but for talks in general (as opposed to the more broad "videos in general" (youtube) this seems ideal.
This is a cool idea, I haven't seen something like this that's all encompassing. Ted.com is huge for talks within it's sphere, but for talks in general (as opposed to the more broad "videos in general (youtube) this seems ideal.
Killer feature for me--if you made this thing automatically extract the text from talks, I would be willing to pay for it. I love talks but hate having to wait through the whole thing to get all the information.
