Congrats Jonah (Snap Contest)
Snap Preview crowdsourced in the form of a contest over the past few months to find out how to make their product better. Genius. Ask the users. Anyway, my friend Jonah Keegan won first price ($2500 + tee shirt). Congrats Jonah!
Here is a snippet of his winning entry:
1st Prize ($2500 + Snap T-Shirt)
Title: SnapMap
Contestant: arsblog
Idea: Snap adds value by reducing the frictions of web navigation. Visual previews of link landing pages are attention optimizers that increase the efficiency of a user’s content consumption. I believe Snap’s success will be directly correlated to the degree in which they can further optimize the “attention allocation” of users. Most blogs have more content for which metadata would be useful than just links. When a certain other search engine detects place information (addresses, place names) in search or in one of their apps, it provides one-click mapping to geo-locate that place. I propose a mapping feature for Snap. Double-click on addresses or place names on snap-enabled web pages and get geographic information without leaving the page. Another friction point removed, and another user intention instance captured by Snap for potential conversion to search or other use of the service.
I’ve been working with Jonah over the past few months on a project that he’s got brewing which is fascinating. Jonah plans on reinvesting the $2500 into the Web 2.0 space and is looking for a HTML designer to do a 3-page wireframe and/or a LAMP coder with a yen for XML.
If you are interested in getting in contact with Jonah, you can reach him here: http://arsblog.com/blog