Comments on: Beta preview: Spectives.com

By: Monkey Island time | Bits of Thought and Bytes of Code - Vincent van Scherpenseel

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:53:37 +0000

[...] that’s quite a lame pun. But yesterday (through Spectives.com!), I found another great Monkey Island initiative: a demo of LeChuck’s Revenge’s [...]

By: Vincent van Scherpenseel

Vincent van Scherpenseel — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:53:19 +0000

@Rutger: Thank you for your reply and I wish you the best of luck with your start-up!

By: Rutger van Waveren

Rutger van Waveren — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:59:46 +0000

Hi Vincent, thanks for the review and thanks for the kind words.

Everybody can join our private beta, just email me at rutger@spectives.com.

You address a valid point about the pictures in feeds. I couldn’t have said it better than “if all feed readers are visually impaired, why serve visuals in your feed”. Luckily a lot of sites serve pictures in their feed, but there are plenty that don’t.

I always say that we’re preparing for the future where site owners understand that sending visuals in your feed can help you generate traffic.

We also get thumbnails from videos if they are in a post.

We’re planning to launch within a couple of weeks