Record a web-browsing session using neato AJAX-powered “web recorder”

This is an application which feels like it must surely have a useful purpose. I’m not totally sure what that use would be though. Perhaps recording a demo or walk-through of a website.

From the site:

TAPEFAILURE is a “history recording tool.” What this means is that anyone can record a browsing session using TAPEFAILURE’s recorder, then save it, and share it with others. Each recorded session can be played back virtually perfectly through our playback tool; as long as you know the tape ID or have a link, you can view your recorded session over and over again.

Overall, the site is attractively designed, very simple to get started, and seems like it could be really useful. They should include a couple of example recordings with usage scenarios — the kind of thing that marketing people love to put all over the place, and probably the programmers think is totally obvious.
We did have a problem trying to record something on Ajax Blog — (got a “Precondition Failed” message from our web server).
Some issues I noticed:

• No way to Preview or Play the recording before you Save it.
• Loading Digg didn’t work correctly when recording (kept on reloading the home page)
• Sometimes it felt a little bit slow

Overall, really neat concept, nicely executed, feels like a toy until we figure out the business model.

Oh yeah, and the AJAX functionality is pretty slick — the application does what it promises smoothly, without any downloads or additional steps needed by the user. It would be neat to see what the database info looks like to do the replays.

Check it out: TAPEFAILURE

(Via Digg)
What would you use it for?