Friday, April 21st, 2006
Fluxiom Launches: Digital asset management
Category: Showcase
Fluxiom the digital asset management web application has been launched.
Fluxiom is created by Thomas Fuchs’ company, and you see the scriptaculous throughout.
It is a very rich web application that blends the world of the web nicely with its richness.
It feels a bit like a 37 Signals application, but in greys instead of whites, and richer where 37 goes for simplicity.
When signing up for the account you feel the europeaness not only via the euros, but by having the date selection as: YYYY MM.
Since the select box didn’t have a label (just blank) I wonder how many americans look confused (until they select and I think they can work out that 2006 is probably a year).
Ajax is everywhere. The assets page is a single application that lets you do a lot of image work from within that one frame. Tabbed structures, sliders, tags, it is all here.
Wish I didn’t have to actually sign up in order to try it out. I’m too lazy to cancel.
I also didn’t try it because I would have to put in my credit card. Looks good though.
I love this thing. I got to test a beta of it and its awesome. Wollzelle did a great job getting this thing production ready. Its got some really sweet features and its nice and quick and it really feels solid. too bad they dont offer a licenced copy to install on a 3rd party server, some companies just need way more space and bandwidth than they offer. But it looks great for the budding designer or web developer.
Nicely executed, but I can’t see the real benefits for those who work alone – a little expensive too, considering the low cost of hosting these days. I think they should eventually be selling this as an add-on to ISP’s. I also think that OS developers are going to be looking at this. And, perhaps they could become a target for Google.
It is pretty nice but I really don’t understand this all ‘ohh ahh’ on this website.
1. It is too expensive.
2. I really don’t understand why do I have to give my credit card number just to test it.
3. This code is effective but INHO a little messy – javascript is mixed with html so I expected something better and more clean.
I’m European, and when i registered it took me a few seconds to figure out how to select the date. And I’m really smart.
As for the app itself; very nice. It just works. I chose the cheapo €9 plan though, so I didn’t get to see that sexy user administration part :(
To be honest I expected more :(
1. Why to hell do I need give my credit card number when I just want to try?
2. It’s too expensive.
3. And about technicals – it’s really pretty – graphics is really clean and nice, but code and functionality… well
– too many popups(!)
– code: javascript is mixed with html… looks pretty messy…
but idea and design is of course really cool and impressive
We’re currently evaluating DAM solutions for our company and came across http://celumimagine.com , it’s no web 2.0 ajax thingy but looks great for business users. Though i think we’ll stick with our self-made php solution anyway :/
Hi tech web development with old school business methods… erf.