Comments on: Daylife Disappointing — Even In its Design.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:08:45 +0000

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By: Dave C.

Dave C. — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:40:29 +0000

I think your assessment at the end that they want to be “simple but cool” is dead on. I kind of like the Covers idea, but I think they could incorporate something else there rather than a picture and a vague headline. Perhaps that’s where the quotes should be, maybe off to the side or below. Although I don’t like the idea of coming to the site just to see those splash images, I do like the idea of a succession of large images. It’s very LIFE magazine.

What also bothers me about the Covers is they don’t give any photo credits except for the plug to Getty Images. Perhaps they subscribe to Getty images, but what does the photographer get out of that. I’m sure there is some sort “deal” between Getty and the shooter, but I still think that’s lame.

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mathewingram.com/media » Daylife: The pitfalls of high expectations — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:58:24 +0000

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By: Robert Yeager

Robert Yeager — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:30:57 +0000

I also found the design utterly confusing. The design instantly sucked on the first page…the flash reader with the horizontal scrolling pics at the bottom is a useless way to scan for cover stories. After that, the other pages were just a random collection of noisy headlines and bubble text.

I suppose I have become accustomed to my collection of RSS readers on my Pageflakes pages, where I can just scan headlines and organize news feeds into meaningful groups and pages.

By: The Zero Boss

The Zero Boss — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:48:48 +0000

What would be really innovative is a news site that does what the best bloggers do: aggregate orthogonal facts and observations from different treatments of a news story, and combine it with facts and statistics culled from Web resources. Comb ine that with a Digg-liek mechanism for promoting and burying news, and you’d have a wonderful new kind of news site.

Sorry, but social bookmarking and story aggregating are yesterday’s news. Let’s see something different for goodness sakes.