One of our beta testers Rush Frisby have created a very nice .NET Library for PageGlimpse Website Thumbnails Platform. This library allows you to quickly integrate PageGlimpse thumbnails into your existing ASP.NET projects with a very easy to use approach. He also have created a demo page here.
Check it out: http://pageglimpse.rushfrisby.com/readme.htm
One of the first major public websites to use the PageGlimpse Website Thumbnails Platform is a very modern search engine implementation that displays previews of websites along the search results. uQuery.com integrates nicely with PageGlimpse and has helped us collect and capture millions of new URLs into our website snapshot database.
PageGlimpse was built from the ground up with scalability in mind since the beginning and we are starting to see many new cool implementations that uses our service.
See how uQuery.com is integrating our services here.
We have created a PageGlimpse Bubble plugin for WordPress that any publisher can easily download and install directly from their WordPress management interface.
Download here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pageglimpsebubble/
You can see this plugin in action here in this blog by hovering your mouse over the link above. A website preview bubble will appear displaying the snapshot of the site being linked to. This is really easy to configure as it only requires you to signup for a free Developer Key and enter it into the plugin options pane inside the WordPress management interface.
If you haven’t signup for our Private Beta, please do so by registering at http://www.pageglimpse.com.
We have been working hard in the last 2 years to delivery a very stable, fast and scalable infrastructure to queue, capture, cache and deliver thumbnails of websites to many different developers and website publishers. When we started this project in 2006, we simply didn’t want to create another website thumbnails service, but a very well designed cluster of different applications, webservices and technologies that would be able to scale efficiently as demand grows.
Since our team is formed by highly senior software engineers with background in C++, distributed applications, and high availability enterprise services, we sat down and developed an incredible platform.
We also chose the Amazon Web Services infrastructure to handle many moving parts of this system, from the automated queuing system, thumbnails storage on S3 and the cluster of webservers on Elastic Compute Cloud.
With all these technologies that we could leverage we were able to create a fantastic and super fast service that will provide you with a level of quality that is lacking in many of the other thumbnails service providers out there.
Make sure to sign up for our private Beta and we will send an invitation.
Finally! why did it take so long?? “We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.” http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/