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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14wow, do I really need to shop while visiting a blog?
Nope, this will fail. Bury if you want, but it will. - artofwar420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I bet they got the name from here: http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@exposeIT
That's nothing, I thought it said serious cRash potential...and I thought to myself, WTF? - ryanonfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hmm i think its going to fail
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No Digg. That thing is about as innovative as using a rock as a door-stop.
- swOhio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"They’ve submitted some basic information to us, but there is clearly a language barrier and we are still digging into the details."
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for an american company to swoop in and steal the idea(though I hope not for booBox' sake). - artofwar420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, I mean what does booBox even mean? I don't know. I don't want to know, it sounds like a "Box" that makes you go "booo"
- darkspire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There are two problems with this. The first being there are a half a dozen sites/companies already doing this. The second being that it removes any security you might have had when purchasing from the vendors site directly. By loading the site in an iframe, lightbox, whatever, you are removing the users ability to verify they are shopping at the store they think they are as well as the browser security features that show if ssl is enabled etc.
So ultimately all this will do is lead to another attack vector for phishers. - EGOvoruhk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Not the boo box!"
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Did they just get this name from the Web 2.0 Name Generator? It's pretty awful. I wish they could give companies names that made sense.
- Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Besides I don't need a lightbox, If i want an item i see on a blog (situation I never recall happening), i can simply right-click "Open in new tab" and there you have it.
But that may be only me. - nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ mirrorfan
you know, for a fan of mirrors, you sure linked to a stupid website that has nothing to do with anything and you're spamming. so BLOCK!!!
sorry, didn't mean to scare you. - neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://booboxland.com/
link to site - grinding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree. I don't see how they expect to make any money. Maybe they can/will integrate their own affiliate code, alternating with the blog owner? What other options are available?
Besides this, Techcrunch seems to believe that they may have a chance at being bought by Amazon or eBay. - dpknc84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I really am not that impressed. Why should I go with booBox when I could code the same thing in about 15 minutes. Less considering I already throw popup windows like that up on my site for pages with the GreyBox api. All this thing does is spawn a window with pictures that link to Amazon.
- rasice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The design isn't so great just the header (which is brilliant). I certainly wont call it good web design. Everything below is pretty poor - bad typography etc.
The whole concept is a little amateurish IMO. - mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who the heck would want anything to do with a boo box that pirates and Capt. Hook use?
;) - unicornhunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great, now I can experience credibility issues when I click on a product I want to buy from a blog/website. Affiliate programs pay out just fine from amazon and other stores, along with the buyer KNOWING that they are definitely at amazon or whatever store. Like gh0st121ker said, this will fail.
- magnusdopus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Isn't it pathetic how a company with potentially a decent project has to resort to this pathetic name more than likely due to domain parking?
Must be a bunch of kids because anyone with a knowledge of Internet history knows that Boo.com was one of the biggest failures in Internet history. - scottymac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1After seeing the TechCrunch article, this guy did code something up in about 15 minutes:
http://www.developmentnow.com/blog/Amazoncom+Greybox+Product+And+Barriers+To+Entry.aspx - whatyousay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i don't know about anyone else but if I'm gonna buy stuff online id rather go directly to amazon (its just a mental thing, it feels safer) and i feel most people and the average online shopper would agree. In addition if i read about something on a blog I'm not just gonna go buy it ill probably research it a little more, therefor theres no need to buy it directly from the blog site.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aw *****, beware of those who tread in your homes.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ich habe eine schinzel in meine hosen :-(
- yuriko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1there are other sites that you can sell independent content on and get a higher percentage... but the amazon's of the world get more share of hits cause they spend more on brand - so they take more in the cut. www.si-mi.com is a site that sells independent blogs and content and gives you 90% of the cut after costs, likewise bandspace gives you a good cut for independent music but these sites don't have that much traffic cause they don't spend anything on advertising, unlike the big boys.
- grinding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not so sure about your second problem. With Developmentnow.com's GreyBox implementation it appears that all browser security/privacy features are maintained in the lightbox as if the lightbox was another browser window.
- arcangelmd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is stupid. You can set up an affiliate account with Amazon yourself and just get a 5-10% cut of the sale from a straight referral. How is this any different then opening a new links with a web 2.0 interface?
- limewood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
completely agree. someone can easily spoof that and use it to phish usernames and passwords. when i went through the demo there was no way to tell if that was really amazon. - festivalman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That amazon affiliate stuff is pretty much crap unless you get more hits than God. Unless the person buys the product right then and there, pretty much something that _never_ happens, the website operator gets zilcho. I ran that affiliate stuff for several years and maybe made 50-60 bucks compared to countless thousands off Google and other regular ad servers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol @ "Serious Profit Potential"
Yeah, right. - saitama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ist deine tachter achtzehn bitte?
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just tested their demo on the homepage http://www.booboxland.com/ scroll to the bottom of that page for the demo.
When you click on one of the demo pictures it asks you "do you want to buy any of the following?" and has some products displayed. I think that when you click one it should open in a new window, it kinda sucks browsing amazon in an inline window that size.
The page title for their homepage is hilarious "booBox Land, here the booBoxes gonna born" =P - HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"You know middle clicking is so much faster :-p"
Wow.. just... wow! thanks lol i never knew about that :D - EvilPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You know middle clicking is so much faster :-p
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love it, at least from the booBox perspective. It sets your Amazon referral cookie without you even having to go to the Amazon site. Classic, if it were something from Gator it would be decried as malware in an instant.
- FiReaNG3L, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Digg is the most trivial technology too. Vote on links.
- auriumsoft, on 09/27/2008, -0/+0errr, I know this is a bit old and also the comments, but I bet 99% of these negative comments are all just because the article says in the first words "Brazil based". If it was an USA thing, surely most of the comments would be constructive/positive.
By the way, booBox got an investment of US$ 300k from Monashees Capital after the article on TechCrunch.
So the money destination is not only to you guys USA Center of Universe :) (even if the cash came from USA). - whatyousay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i agree darksphire
- bootedcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I recommend this short movie mocking Kim Jong Il and his secret agent buying Hennessy XO wine from Chinese black market :=)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EE52D9ED01495685 - elcerrito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Their design looks really great, but their technology seems rather trivial. Is this thing worth creating a start-up company?
Just a first impression. I think they have high respect for good web design and the stylish way we shop on-line, so hope they can influence the industry by the idea. - monomal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And that one didn't crash my Safari like booBox...
- danandre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@EGOvoruhk
yes..the boo-boo box! - MScrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They should have done better research when picking the name:
http://www.frightideas.com/pcat_boobox.shtml - sp1nm0nkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Am I the only one that thinks buying from a lightbox on a random site is a bit... eh... What's to stop someone from putting up a fantastic deal and doing a bit of phishing?
- mogston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like the 'Snap Preview Anywhere' widget on steriods. Besides, the site's down at the moment.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yeah, I hate how a lot of real estate in prime areas is already purchased by land speculators too. I should be able to decide what 'use' is and get it taken away and given to me. What an unfair world. This one neighbor of mine hasn't driven his car for ages and I totally wanted one just like it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6wow, i read the name as two words... "Boob" and "Ox"
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