Nice to see some similarities to what we have done at http://utopic.me/
The news board seemed 80% from one source, BBC. Would love to see more variety. Did not really understand your rating algorithms there. Clicking on the news opened just 1 sentence of the news item. Either redirect to the full webpage or use full text scraping like Flipboard/Zite do (keeping of course copyright in mind).
Some objects you have don´t have photos and then the headline jumps to the top of the object, which is distracting.
After registering, I now have just an empty page under my first board, saying no threads found. Not sure what I should do next.
Good luck - better (big data) content discovery & personalization projects are always needed. And try to find a specific niche - it´s a very tough and coverrowded market.
Most of the content from the site is from RSS feeds. This is why there are lot of descriptions that are short. Hopefully users will add stuff and I can wean the site off this automatically submitted content.
After you register, you create a board or two, follow some users or sources in those boards. Make a tech board, with the sites you like. Make a friends one following all of your friends. But, you are absolutely right. I am not showing the user that they need to do this. This is probably the hardest thing to do, for me, right now.
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Nice to see some similarities to what we have done at http://utopic.me/
The news board seemed 80% from one source, BBC. Would love to see more variety. Did not really understand your rating algorithms there. Clicking on the news opened just 1 sentence of the news item. Either redirect to the full webpage or use full text scraping like Flipboard/Zite do (keeping of course copyright in mind).
Some objects you have don´t have photos and then the headline jumps to the top of the object, which is distracting.
After registering, I now have just an empty page under my first board, saying no threads found. Not sure what I should do next.
Good luck - better (big data) content discovery & personalization projects are always needed. And try to find a specific niche - it´s a very tough and coverrowded market.
Most of the content from the site is from RSS feeds. This is why there are lot of descriptions that are short. Hopefully users will add stuff and I can wean the site off this automatically submitted content.
After you register, you create a board or two, follow some users or sources in those boards. Make a tech board, with the sites you like. Make a friends one following all of your friends. But, you are absolutely right. I am not showing the user that they need to do this. This is probably the hardest thing to do, for me, right now.
It wasn't clear to me how to add sources not already listed. Is there some way to add other RSS feeds?