Snap.com Website Preview

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Snap.com Website Preview

30th January 2007

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Just a small site update today. Yesterday I installed a plug-in for this blog which runs Wordpress called Snap Preview Anywhere. It’s a really neat system that allows a web site user to drag the mouse over a link to an external web site and see a thumbnail image of the external web site.

I think that the uses for this are going to be HUGE. For instance, it helps to prevent the following condition. I for one have total Hyperlink Attention Deficit Disorder (I think I just coined a term) where you click a link to briefly preview a website and end up clicking on five more links to other web sites thereby forgetting what you were even accessing the internet for.

Go ahead, try it here now. Wait….where was I?

There are currently 3 responses to “Snap.com Website Preview”

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1 On January 31st, 2007, Alex said:
As suggested by the blog I linked from, these are useless and annoying. You can only see what the site looks like, but not what it actually says. What’s the point?
2 On January 31st, 2007, admin said:
The point is that you can see a representation of the site to see if you’ve been there before (i.e. Digg.com, Google.com, etc) If you haven’t seen it before, click the link. Is that so hard?
3 On February 2nd, 2007, Gamma Goblin said:
I don’t know why people hate them. I find them very useful for exactly the reason you mentioned in your comment. Plus I get sidetracked by clicking hyperlinks too easily. I started using them for linking to images without ruining the flow of the text. The idea was that readers could just hover over a jpg link or what have you and see what I was referring to. Obviously there are too many wobbly handed, popup intolerant cretins out there on the internet.