Have You Heard of Fichey?
I stumbled upon an interesting new site called Fichey. Fichey aggregates the most popular content from Del.icio.us, Digg, Downfly, Reddit and StumbleUpon. Through their flash interface you are able to move from page to page without having to go to each web site and wait for it to load. The flash interface gives you a picture of a web page and then if you want to interact or read more than the picture shows, you can click a button and you will be brought to the actual site.
The interface is very similar to the interface of the iPhone and it is a pretty cool experience. It took me a little bit to get use to that I could not click on links on the pages itself, but it does allow you to surf and read a whole lot of content very quickly. The one thing that Fichey does not do compared to a StumbleUpon, is there are no social bookmarking, reviewing or commenting. Pretty much, the most popular content is shown and you view it and then move on.
When I first looked at it, I did not think I was going to do dig it because there was no interaction, but I found it to be a good user experience and I enjoyed being able to just check out all the pages quickly and easily instead of having to go through all these voting sites to see what is hot.
Check it out, let me know what you think.
Technorati Tags: Fichey, Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, iPhone
You must have fast internet, for me it was too slow to be useful. It did look funky, however.
Another site that aggregates “top” posts from a number of sites is popurls.com – may well be common knowledge, but I hadn’t heard about it either until I got hits from both.
Meg – Really, it was slow for you? I don’t have that fast of an internet, but it worked well for me. Hmm, weird..
Hi Cord
I should explain a bit better, it probably wasn’t so much Fichey, but the underlying sites. Some loaded super quick, others could take up to 10 seconds. But maybe I’m just impatient
You CAN click on the links on the pages, however the cursor remains the grabby-hand and you have to double click. It provides easy navigation back to fichey and bookmarking options.
I couldn’t figure out how to launch the sites I was looking at…
neat interface…
To launch any website in fichey just double click on the page you see. Simple, eh ?