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January 29th, 2009 link to (permalink)
“Around San Francisco, that mecca of art and technology, Oobject has become a favorite gadgety diversion–and inspiration”
CNET
Oobject is like a digital Wunderkammer comprising visual lists of man-made objects. Oobject may look like yet another, crappy, weird things site, but delve in, I’ve put an unhealthy amount of effort into it. –
David
February 6th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
OMG you merged with engadget. What a shame.
It was very nice while it lasted. Thank you for that.
February 7th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Dear Sirs,
I hope this is not how Oobject will now look. That great collection of fascinating lists now overrun by your crass attempts at product placement? No thank you, not for me. I’ll check back once or twice to see if you’re sticking with this unfortunately configuration. If so, I’ll just have to delete Oobject from my bookmarks.
yours sincerely,
Bill Taylor
February 7th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Ah well, I hope it doesn’t put you off.
The primary role of the site will still be about collecting interesting votable lists, and the latest of these will always show at the top.
In terms of the gadget news we will be showing, oobject is run by designers and we have built what we wanted from a gadget blog – i.e. one that filters out much of the gimmicky or plain ugly and focuses or gadgets from a design perspective.
The original home page can still be accessed here and will be updated just as often:
http://www.oobject.com/category/all-categories?sortby=posted
The new look version just with lists, here:
http://oobject.com/home/category/lists/
The rss feeds are now available just with lists (in the past the rss contained each item in the list rather than the links to the lists themselves, which was annoying)
List RSS:
http://oobject.com/home/category/lists/feed/
Anyway, things will constantly change, and we do try and listen to people.
David
February 12th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Seriously! If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. The original site (thanks for the link) was great. The new site is a complete jumble.
February 16th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
It’s still a great site, don’t begrudge the man a living…still captures my imagination on a dreary Monday morning-thanks Oobject & good luck with new site.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
We’ve reverted back to lists and featured items on the front page, with news on a separate page.
June 7th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Hello dear Oobject. Where have you gone ? Everytime I try and go to your news page I only see a blank white page. What is going on?
Cheers Graham
June 12th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Oops – fixed now
David
June 28th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Hello OOBJECT
Oh dear
This used to be my favourite gadget/interesting thing web site
I had told all of my friends about it too
But now every time I go to the ‘new’ section it is broken by:
1)
All of the articles just link back to the news section, instead of taking me to the actual article
2)
The images are all broken
3)
The site is down
I think this is the end off OOBECT.com for me
How hard can it be to make sure that all of the links are entered into the site before they appear on the new section?
So long and thanks for all the fish!
June 29th, 2010 at 3:07 am
Hi there,
The crawler for the news portion of the site has been slow over the weekend so some images and url links were delayed by 2-3 hours, however there hasn’t been any downtime.
The news feed is automatic – it looks ta several thousand items a day so is hard for a human to look at.
We’ll see if we can speed up whatever is causing the backup – currently all item have images but am seeing that the top 10 or so have wrong links – but everything further back looks fine.
Best
David
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:20 am
Major fail, there is no obvious search function on the main page. A page of lists, but no way to find anything. Grrrrrrr.
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