4 ms·

Hi Paul, My current company (thehotlist.com) has been working on what you asked in these two paragraphs for two years. "Facebook began by testing Instant Pers

Hi Paul, My current company (thehotlist.com) has been working on what you asked in these two paragraphs for two years. "Facebook began by testing Instant Personalization with a handful of popular existing sites. But the interesting question for us is: what new things could be built using it that couldn't even have existed before? What new things could you do if you already knew users and their friends the moment they arrived? One obvious advantage is that it will decrease the friction of trying something new. That will make it easier to launch dramatically novel things. The problem with dramatic innovations is that users often don't understand what you've made till they try it. Now you'll just be able to show them." Would you like to give me some feedback if you visited thehotlist.com? And if anyone visits thehotlist.com and has questions to ask me about the experience in using Facebook as main data source, feel free to ask me. Eugene Jen

revorad 16y ago
You might want to submit a separate Ask HN post to review your site and post the link in this thread.
arnorhs 16y ago
I'm not pg but I don't really understand this website. What does it do? I signed in and saw a map of my location. Tried to change my location, but no luck. The name sounds like it's a list of something that's currently hot/cool or something like that, but it seems like a check-in thing (according to the interface) Also, the font you are using in cufon doesn't have any foreign characters, so my name is displayed as: Arnr Heiar Sigursson when in fact it is: Arnór Heiðar Sigurðsson
- eugenejen 16y ago
  Thanks Arnór. This is very useful feedback because you are outside our test data point. By the way, when you tried to change your location, did you try to type the location into the text box? Can I know what did you type so I can test on my end?
  - arnorhs 16y ago
    Yes, I did. I typed in "Mjoahlid 8, Reykjavik, Iceland", which works fine in google maps (I saw you were using google maps). when I type that into your box it gets converted into "Capital Region, Iceland". Which is not very accurate :)

revorad 16y ago

You might want to submit a separate Ask HN post to review your site and post the link in this thread.

arnorhs 16y ago

I'm not pg but I don't really understand this website. What does it do? I signed in and saw a map of my location. Tried to change my location, but no luck. The name sounds like it's a list of something that's currently hot/cool or something like that, but it seems like a check-in thing (according to the interface) Also, the font you are using in cufon doesn't have any foreign characters, so my name is displayed as: Arnr Heiar Sigursson when in fact it is: Arnór Heiðar Sigurðsson

eugenejen 16y ago
Thanks Arnór. This is very useful feedback because you are outside our test data point. By the way, when you tried to change your location, did you try to type the location into the text box? Can I know what did you type so I can test on my end?
- arnorhs 16y ago
  Yes, I did. I typed in "Mjoahlid 8, Reykjavik, Iceland", which works fine in google maps (I saw you were using google maps). when I type that into your box it gets converted into "Capital Region, Iceland". Which is not very accurate :)