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by BTBurke 5738 days ago
I spent a few minutes thinking about why I would want this service. It wasn't immediately clear to me what benefit it would provide over something like delicious or just standard bookmarking features in your browser -- then I got it... it indexes the page and lets me search for what I'm looking for later using the full content, rather than just the tags I assigned or information that can be found in the URL or page title. That's something you might want to make more obvious for users that only spend 30 sec on your landing page. Bring out the value proposition right away in simple language, rather than making them wonder what the difference is between filtering, crawling, indexing, recommending, etc.
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Thanks, BTBurke. Good point. Indexing the entire content of the page so that you can search for anything within the page is a big part of what we do. However, there are several other things we do that we were trying to show on the landing page. For instance, we have an Easy Reader that shows only the essential content of the page without any ads, headers, menus, javascript etc.(similar to the Safari Reader/Instapaper Text View). The current version of the landing page is an attempt at bringing out all the stuff we do/plan to do.

You are right, though. We need to keep iterating on the messaging of the landing page until it is obvious to users within a few seconds of seeing the page.

There's something nicely alliterative about the key things that your service appears to help you do with interesting webpages: Save, Sync, Search, Share, Simplify
Cool. You explained in five words, what we tried to do with a hundred :-)
So it's the same thing as historious, basically?
Zukmo and historious do let you search the entire content of the page.

However, unlike historious, Zukmo does a lot of additional stuff with the pages that you add to Zukmo. It automatically categorizes them. It also provides an uncluttered view (Easy Reader) similar to Safari Reader and Instapaper Text View. This will come in handy when you view it on mobile devices (we are currently working on apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android). With Zukmo, you can also share on Twitter, Facebook and via email right when you add the page to Zukmo.

Also, other than bookmarks, we will be adding the ability to add your Twitter and Facebook streams as well as RSS feeds into Zukmo.