I didn’t vote for this but it seems to be just another concept of ping.fm, google homepage, or netvibes. Not innovative, decent looking site. However, I did enjoy the witty Chuck Norris comment.

I’m going to agree with a few of the other comments…it’s graphically pleasing, but I don’t get why it’s useful. What the world doesn’t need is another social networking site. Especially one that tries to be THE site for all other sites. Sorry, but I wouldn’t put this under “inventive.”

Felicitaciones Koombea!!

Awesome idea! Very innovative and useful!

Many more things can be added to it, like latest blog posts, last.fm songs playlists etc. great job till now. :)

Hmm … very great … I love the flickr of my profile … they are not loaded either.. but I love easy for user <3 … so many other comments have many ellipsis too!

• Company: not required, but required?
• Maybe I’m the spelling police, but “Type you (sic) username” really bugs me.
• Grr. I wanted to go back to the front page while I was registering and it kept sending me back to the profile page. I wanted to bring up the homepage and the ‘setting up my account’ to see how they worked together. (After finishing, I checked it out and they’re pretty close. I was curious how the graphics on the front vs not in the profile looked and they’re complementary. I really like the tray of cards with faces of the different logos.)
• I put in a title, but forgot to add a link and it told me I needed one. So, I added a link and it told me I needed a title. Apparently, I also thought “links” was plural and I put a couple in there.
• Can I get my name up next to the “Hi, I’m” page header so it reads like a sentence?
• I expected my multiline ‘me in 250 words or less’ would show up multi-line on my profile.
• I added a twitter account without a name, and now I have “twitter.com/Type you username” on my profile page and I can’t get it off!
• I have two highlights/links in my profile and only one shows up on my profile. Again, no delete option. I assume this came from my earlier validation error.
• The “view public page” link on my profile goes to “#” [from both Networks and Highlights. S’okay from the Basic tab.]
• Search worked well. The first time. Searching for “bob” scared the crap out of my since my speakers were turned up and a youtube video started playing. Apparently there are no bobs and the none found case wasn’t tested.
• Am I missing it, or is my email address not shown anywhere? Phone number? I guess I could put that in my ‘about me’ text if I wanted it, though.

Summary

I just re-read my notes and I guess I don’t have a lot to say that’s positive. I feel that it’s neither the newest idea nor very well executed. That said, I’d probably use this on a personal level once the kinks are worked out because I don’t currently use anything like it and hey, it’s built in rails! 4/1/1/3

Here is an app I might actually use:-)

The visuals are soft and fuzzy, but don’t necessarily give you a strong sense of what you should be doing. The inability to delete practically anything from your profile (including your whole profile) is really frustrating. It seems that for an app that’s so CRUD-oriented, you’d at least be able to D.

i like this app … i hope the release will be complete

i like this! … i’m waiting the release ..

The obvious things missing here are

1. rel=“me” microformat links so this thing can start taking off on its own and actually represent me well and

2. a quick call out to the social graph API to fill in all of the links for me instead of asking me to do them one by one (and leaving many options out)

I found most of the creation process to be rather confusing.

I would rather have had none of the information be required and sent directly to the unfilled out page, so I could get some context before being prompted for all kinds of information. It wasn’t clear how information would be used, nor if I’d be able to change it later. For instance:

• I can’t delete networks.
• Company is never displayed, but is still required for some reason.
• I have to have a highlights link, even though I have no idea what it’s there for. (ditto for just about every required field)

It also would have been nice if I could have decided if and when I wanted to make my profile public. Right now, I’d settle for just being able to delete my account.

It wasn’t clear what you were going to do with the various social networks. I was expecting more than just links for networks besides flickr and twitter. As it is, it doesn’t really seem all that useful, nor impressive.

Unlike some of the other entries, this one actually feels like something that was thrown together in 48 hours.

cool

Great idea, some of the forms were unclear of what that information was to be used for (or what it should contain). The step one page was done, the others could use some work. Also, I entered james.pierce as the slug for my name and it returns a 404 error and it appears there is no way to edit my profile without getting to it. There should be error handling on that. Confirmation emails are lame.

wow! excellent idea!!! i signed up already, and im really looking forward to it =)

Very good job!

This has such great potential. However, I found the page creation process to be cumbersome. Fields should be optional if a person doesn’t want to include them (like company). People may or may not want to share that information with teh interwebs. Yeah, I know. Social networking blah blah. People are weird though. :p Great job!

that`s a wonderfull job congratulations lets go on

@jonathant Thanks very much for your response. I appreciate that your intentions were primarily to inform users – who may not have been aware of the Rumble restrictions on site updates – as to the status of the site, and when updates would be pushed out. While it may have been a poor judgment call to use this information, I appreciate your quick response and assurance that our information is still secure and that this will not become a pattern. Best of luck with the rest of the Rumble, and in your future updates.

-Kevin W. Gisi

Nice work, guys. Your website could be left-aligned but it might not be as pretty. :-)

Appearance: 3/5
The color scheme is fair, but it uses too many accent colors, meaning that the eye is not immediately drawn to the most important content. Could stand better management of horizontal space on the homepage. There homepage shouldn’t require scrolling to see featured content.

Completeness: 2/5
There are some severe Ajax issues here. Adding additional items didn’t quite seem to work the way it was supposed to. There’s no mechanism for removing records – and even leaving them blank didn’t remove the items. This application has a lot of work to do before it’s a viable site.

Innovation: 2/5
This isn’t particularly innovative, as there are contact aggregators already. The site URL is phenomenal, and if this team had done more to leverage that – suggesting that the simplicity of the URL makes it a better alternative – this would have been stronger.

Usefulness: 1/5
This site has the potential to be a useful tool, but it would take heavy marketing for it to really take over. It’s like any social networking site – only truly useful once it gets adopted by a majority. However, sharing email accounts (and who knows what other information) without a privacy policy is an abuse of the RailsRumble system. If user account information are going to be provided to other parties, it should be documented in the privacy policy, and I am appalled that this team would try to leverage that information to give them an advantage.

Overall, this application has potential, but has some major flaws – mostly with adding and removing networks – that make the site difficult to use. Finally, using user account information to send out emails promoting yourself is really not fair – and made worse by the fact that it was not sent by the Hi.im application. Next time, publish a user privacy page, so people know what they’re getting into before they get stuck.

-Kevin W. Gisi

Nice idea and good design. A few quirks: I ended up with 2 Twitter accounts and wasn’t able to delete one of them. Things like my Github network don’t show up. And my flickr feed doesn’t work at all.

Agree with Ryan, it was really confusing, as i expected it to aggregate my accounts and create a page for me using that.

Hey yeah I couldn’t find myself either, tried tags and real name.

The site is well put together, but there are any number of existing “hey create a site about yourself” sites already out there (chi.mp, Google profiles, Plaxo, etc. etc.). The “Hi, I’m” domain is clever though.

this app is a good start! I’ve been looking for a simple “This is me” type page that blows away google’s profile page. Great idea. My .02 – the registration workflow is a bit arduous. Why do I have to enter a twitter acct and some other information just to get started?

I really love the concept about this and the url is nothing but awesome I can wait to see this app fully working.

i think hi.im is the best app in railsrumble … very usefull … nice appearance … easy for users …
I was needing something like this … very innovative … i love it!!!

Congratulations for hi.im’s developers

Design is awesome! Really dig it!

Overall, the site is cool, but it seems like it’s been done before and I don’t see anything that really differentiates your app.

I think this team hit a bullseye with Hi.im
the design is great

I wouldn’t require a headline and description. Just wanting to try it out, you’re left kinda stuck like, “eh, I guess I’ll put in placeholder text”. Perhaps have some default values that indicate it’s the default, ie “’s headline”.

‘Company’ was required even though the form didn’t have the little ‘required’ hint. In addition, I generally don’t associate myself with a company on public type things like this.

For adding networks, you might be able to default to a user’s hi.im name. Mine ended up being the same for each, for example.

It might be useful to preview your page as you are making it, because I had no idea what ‘Links’ was supposed to be, and it was required, until I went back and read the heading more closely.

In general, it might be easier on a user to require less information upfront to get going.

When I was filling out my page I wanted to go back and see an example page to know what the field was, but the app would only open up the same input screen in the new tabs.

Looks great and was pretty intuitive to use. Some helpers to determine your network links would be nice. FYI – the “View Public Page” link is broken.

Confused how this is better/different than card.ly

Excellent!!!

Pretty cool app