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marciovm123
To add my twitter stream, the site wants read/write access: #Fail.

I don't want flavors.me (or any other aggregating service) pitching itself on twitter under my name without my control. The default should be read, not read/write.

gmurphy
I failed to notice this and it did end up posting a Twitter message under my name (I'd like to think I missed a checkbox somewhere), so I deleted my account :\",
jpcx01
Big mistake by the developers. Also a reason I tend to try sites like this with my disposable twitter / gmail accounts.

All in all, I do like the site and the idea. Very similar to hi.im, but a tad more stylish.

mooism2
Is this yours? There seem to be two blue buttons at the bottom, but they are hidden by the footer bar. (Firefox/3.5.8)
timmorgan
This looks pretty cool. I like the simplicity of the design choices.

I haven't signed up yet -- wondering if you can add just plain ol' links to stuff. (edit: nope.)

rlm
Not in the "services" area, but in the description you can.
klaut
Uhm, they might want to reconsider the background and tone it down a little bit. Like this it is just too loud, imho.
boucher
I think it's lovely. Used to have a site background just like it.
dabeeeenster
you can completely control your own background...
arnorhs
I really like the front page's simplicity

I signed up about two months ago. I was pretty disappointed because I thought the purpose was to list all your online activities, tweets, facebook updates, blog entries, flickr photos, youtube favorites in one stream. But instead it allows you to create a button to each one and customize the layout a little bit...

Anyways, it was a bit of a disappointment. But here's my flavors.me: http://flavors.me/arnorhs

boucher
Oh, yeah, that's what I thought it was too. I really want that site. I've almost built it for myself a few times now, but I haven't quite decided how to normalize for frequency. I don't want my twitter updates drowning out all the less frequent but far more interesting content I might have out there.
endtime
Why not just calculate a score for each item that is the item's age multiplied by some function (e.g. square root) of the total number of items from that item's source?
grk
Funny how even Helvetica needs to be rendered by flash. Signed up, saw that and deleted the account.
jpcx01
really?
grk
Yes. Try visiting any page with flashblock on.
jonathanmarcus
Helvetica requires a license, and the license stipulates a Flash implementation. Perhaps the foundry will release an embeddable @font-face font soon, in which case we would likely make a switch.
pvg
There are few effective business models where the initial customer choices are 'register' or 'wait for a video to download'. Especially if the latter boils down to a slower version of the former with a catchy tune.
sabat
This idea has (roughly) occurred to me, too, and it's cool to see someone implement it. Its simplicity is well-done. Suggestion: make it even simpler. Don't require a login. Just let someone start connecting and designing, and then they'll want to have a username etc.
alttab
I think the original commenter was saying that "sign up" and "a video for sign up" are not good options. At least that is the way I understood "There are few business models" vs "there are a few business models."

The site is well done. It takes all of the technical aspects out of making a personal website, and I thought about something similar myself (including .com domains at a premium). However, the comments about it hijacking your twitter account and a complete lack of a privacy statement are a little scary.

edw519
Gorgeous.

Now how do I find out what it is without watching a video or giving out my email address?

<continues listening to ipod in office>

boucher
I'm willing to watch a good video, but this one in particular is quite long, and with no narration. A much shorter narrated tour would be both more interesting and more personal.
Frazzydee
Completely agree. I'm on a bit of a slow connection and didn't have patience for the video to load.

They should have a link to view an example web site.

DanBlake
Very similar to a service I did a while back ( card.ly ) but in the opposite direction- Big vs small- I love it :)

Its amazing how easy they make it for your pages to feel sexy. Not sure why they want read/write for twitter access. We do all the stream stuff without the need for any of that.

steveklabnik
I really like my flavors.me page; so much so that I redirected steveklabnik.com to it. I had gone through several iterations of designs before, but I'm not a desiger, so they always looked like crap. The ten minutes I spent on my flavors.me page looked approximately 10000 times better than anything I'd made previously.
jonathanmarcus
For those who can't stand Flash, we will soon be switching to exclusively licensed @font-face web embeddable fonts, which use HTML5 instead of Flash on compatible browsers. Also, we use OAuth where possible not for the write access, but to reduce user confusion that arises from trying to figure out usernames/passwords for authentication, particularly Flickr and other Yahoo properties.
jfager
That demo video needs to get to the point much more quickly.
nbrochu
I think they should focus on showcasing the directory more than the video itself since it really does a better job at showing you the possibilities.

http://flavors.me/directory

I really like the looks of these pages, although it seems to me it all boils down to how clever you are designing your background image.

100k
I really like some of the pages they show at the end of the video. They reminded me of thesixtyone's new design.