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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: LostOne on January 09, 2009, 07:44
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We have hundreds of features we want to produce on iStock. The problem is time. If we come up with a new feature today, we probably couldn't implement it for 7 or 8 months. Such is life with a site as large and complex as iStock.
We especially have a lot of great interface enhancements. We wanted a way to test and implement them quickly without interfering with the main development track. We also had some experience doing rapid app development in Mac OS X and it had many of the features we were looking for.
This is how 'Dexter' was born (Dexter was our code-name for the project: a 'killer new interface' — don't laugh, it took many sleepless nights to come up with that ). For the past 3 months, we've been developing this stand-alone app that allows customers to rapidly find and download iStock content. Here at Macworld, we were finally ready to show it to the world.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=82230&page=1
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For the past 3 months, we've been developing this stand-alone app that allows customers to rapidly find and download iStock content.
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=82230&page=1[/url]
I wish they had the same enthusiasm for uploading content... :-[
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Yup. There are things that need to fixed on the site, but looks like an (optional) app for the buyers is more important. If it weren't for deepmeta we would still be uploading the images one by one (some still do, since vectors aren't supported in DM).
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What, buyers aren't important?
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Anything that gives the buyers better tools to find and buy images is top on my priority list.
I wonder how much better of an experience this software would give over using the site. More accurate search results? Faster performance?
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This is how 'Dexter' was born (Dexter was our code-name for the project: a 'killer new interface' — don't laugh, it took many sleepless nights to come up with that ). For the past 3 months, we've been developing this stand-alone app that allows customers to rapidly find and download iStock content. Here at Macworld, we were finally ready to show it to the world.
For the love of anything that is holy and italian, please don't program at night and try to pass it as a good thing. It's evil. It makes worst software. It slows you down. It generates more bugs. It makes you look unprofessional.
*End of my geeky rant* :D
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I think they were referring to spending many sleepless nights to come up with the name, not the program. ;)
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I think they were referring to spending many sleepless nights to come up with the name, not the program. ;)
Even worse! *ranting*
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I think they were referring to spending many sleepless nights to come up with the name, not the program. ;)
Maybe they ought to have called in Sinister not Dexter, that would be more in keeping for the kneejerk responses to anything connected with istock ::)
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I think they were referring to spending many sleepless nights to come up with the name, not the program. ;)
Maybe they ought to have called in Sinister not Dexter, that would be more in keeping for the kneejerk responses to anything connected with istock ::)
LOL Dexter actually is pretty sinister when you think about it... a duplicitous killer who appears to be one thing but is really something else entirely. Maybe that is the clue. This is the beginning of iStock's evil plot to take over the world, one Mac at a time.
:D
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Maybe they had this Dexter in mind:
(http://calamitykim.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/04/dexter3.jpg)
The boy genius :D
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I thought it was this Dexter:
(http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/d/dexterriley.jpg)
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LOL ;D Yes! A free box of Crumply Crunch with every 10 downloads!
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I surely do wish they would fix all the stuff that is broken before rushing head long into introducing this supposedly new interface - as a buyer I find the site a major headache - it is beyond slow and is constantly getting hung up ... quite frankly it is the least user friendly of all the sites combined - perhaps they should start focuing on trying to remedy the basics first.
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A contributor can only contribute.The company that the contributor contributes too changes periodically for the good of the company.
We are told and sometimes asked for our opinion on changes.Change will happen with or without contributors input.
Buyers will come and buyers will leave.
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Buyers will come and buyers will leave.
You just need to make sure it's more of the former and less of the latter ...
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Anything that gives the buyers better tools to find and buy images is top on my priority list.
+1