You found a Lookie! (intro)
Here's what this lookie contains...
I've got to tell you about this cool website I found! It's called
Hey, look at this with me!
and it let's you share fragments of information. Here's a couple of things I can share publically:
A URL: Visit the site at: http://hey.lookatthiswith.me
Sharing: You can see this Lookie at: http://hey.lookatthiswith.me/intro
Random text: Michael Kennedy is the guy who created this site.
An image: Here's a picture of him
YouTube Videos: Here's one that does that! lookatthiswith.me/s2o
Maybe you're thinking, we already have ways to share this type of content, like blogs, twitter, facebook, email, etc.
Here's how http://lookatthiswith.me is different and why we need it:
Blogs: I could blog this content rather than creating a Lookie and for this particular text, that might be appropriate. But usually you'll just have a few random pieces of information you want to reference. For a blog post, you need something like a small article. Lookies can just be bits of info tied together.
Twitter: This is like twitter in a sense, but you can share rich content much longer than 140 characters.
Facebook and email require you know the person you are sharing with and are already connected. LookAtThisWith.Me let's you share information by passing it along without a continuous chain of pre-existing connections.
In short, LookAtThisWith.Me fills the space that exists between twitter, blogs, and email by allowing you to publish non-article-like rich content of reasonable size and pass it around publically using just a url which requires no creation of accounts or relationship between sender and receiver.
One more thing: The view into a Lookie is a live view. So watchers of your creations are refreshed every 5 seconds. If you update your content, they'll see it change almost immediately.
Got feedback? Contact @mkennedy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mkennedy
Enjoy!
Michael
Hey, look at this with me!
and it let's you share fragments of information. Here's a couple of things I can share publically:
A URL: Visit the site at: http://hey.lookatthiswith.me
Sharing: You can see this Lookie at: http://hey.lookatthiswith.me/intro
Random text: Michael Kennedy is the guy who created this site.
An image: Here's a picture of him
YouTube Videos: Here's one that does that! lookatthiswith.me/s2o
Maybe you're thinking, we already have ways to share this type of content, like blogs, twitter, facebook, email, etc.
Here's how http://lookatthiswith.me is different and why we need it:
Blogs: I could blog this content rather than creating a Lookie and for this particular text, that might be appropriate. But usually you'll just have a few random pieces of information you want to reference. For a blog post, you need something like a small article. Lookies can just be bits of info tied together.
Twitter: This is like twitter in a sense, but you can share rich content much longer than 140 characters.
Facebook and email require you know the person you are sharing with and are already connected. LookAtThisWith.Me let's you share information by passing it along without a continuous chain of pre-existing connections.
In short, LookAtThisWith.Me fills the space that exists between twitter, blogs, and email by allowing you to publish non-article-like rich content of reasonable size and pass it around publically using just a url which requires no creation of accounts or relationship between sender and receiver.
One more thing: The view into a Lookie is a live view. So watchers of your creations are refreshed every 5 seconds. If you update your content, they'll see it change almost immediately.
Got feedback? Contact @mkennedy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mkennedy
Enjoy!
Michael
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