Full Version: An idea
From: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#1]
7 Apr 2005
To: ALL
I just wanted to share our product catalog with everyone, I really like this idea for advertising and sending out to customers and wanted to give others some good ideas too! I actually got my idea from Studio Workshop, so thanks to them! I've done these books for real estate, a summer celebration in my home town, a baby book and best of all my product catalog. So check it out! I've actually started offering these to customers as well.
Just to see what else i've done here's the one for Coopersville Summerfest
http://www.flipviewer.com/popup/?opf=http://members.myflipbooks.com/kateraap/Summerfest.opf&ver=gen
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#2]
7 Apr 2005
To: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#1] 7 Apr 2005
Impressive. Would make a great website as a catalog.
Is the image size the reason the page generation is so long?
Makes the PDF reader look like 20 year old technology.
From: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#3]
7 Apr 2005
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#2] 7 Apr 2005
Harvey,
I just looked at it too; it is impressive.
I didn't have the slow page generation you mentioned.
I'm using a 2.8GHz P4 w/ HT and 1.5G RAM.
I do prefer acrobat though; it doesn't report back how much time I'm spending viewing each page.
From: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#4]
7 Apr 2005
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#3] 7 Apr 2005
From: LARRY (CENTURYBADGE) [#5]
7 Apr 2005
To: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#1] 7 Apr 2005
Terrific presentation. Very impressive,
Larry
Century Badge & Engraving
From: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#6]
7 Apr 2005
To: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#4] 7 Apr 2005
I went to their website and read the privacy policy. They start off by saying how committed they are to protecting privacy, then go on to describe a policy that I don't consider very protective.
From that page:
"When you view a FlipBook, our server collects anonymous viewing information. Anonymous viewing information is data regarding the time spent viewing specific pages in the FlipBook, the order in which pages are viewed, the time of day pages are accessed, and IP addresses."
They also share any information collected with 3rd parties.
"... customer lists which we distribute to our advertisers and other third party marketers."
When I went to view your books, I had to download the viewer. It then gave the option to register. This means giving an email address for them to share. The initial download is an older version. You must give the email address to get the latest viewer. (I didn't)
Here's the link:
http://www.flipviewer.com/fv/privacy.php
From: precisionlaser [#7]
7 Apr 2005
To: ALL
I had an identical experience, except that as a user of Firefox, it took a little more maneuvering to achieve the same level of non-operation ;-) Neat idea, but I don't like having information passed on to anyone so I'll have to pass.
Mark
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#8]
7 Apr 2005
To: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#4] 7 Apr 2005
DSL 750Kbaud. The pages took about 8 seconds for th image to come in. The 2.5Meg viewer only took about 15 seconds to download. Maybe the server was busy.
From: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#9]
7 Apr 2005
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#8] 7 Apr 2005
From: Rallyguy [#10]
8 Apr 2005
To: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#9] 8 Apr 2005
Kate,
I didn't download the software plugin because of the personal info needed or risked as well.....I think you might want to reconsider that $60 bucks on 3D software that isn't so intrusive. I suspect you will get more business just because of that.
You never know...you may be losing 50% or more of potential buyers because of that little software issue. :)
I look forward to seeing your examples someday.
Thanks,
Brian G.
From: Rodney Gold (RODNEY_GOLD) [#11]
8 Apr 2005
To: Rallyguy [#10] 8 Apr 2005
I didnt view or do anything cos it asked me if I wanted to install something. So I just passed on it - as would many others.
I don't quite see the advantage of this over a simple internet site?
From: D-zines (X-TREMEGRAPHICS) [#12]
8 Apr 2005
To: Rodney Gold (RODNEY_GOLD) [#11] 8 Apr 2005
I would like to reconsider that $60, but right now its just not feasible. When I say we don't have any money here right now we really don't. The half down we get from our customers is used to purchase the materials needed. And extra things are out of the question right now. Hopefully things will pick up for us, and I search every day for a part time job, which I'll be doing soon at a golf course. So maybe sooner than I hope I can get the 3d product, and I will post that once it's finished.