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A bunch of startups are working on the problem of creating a customized, ranked, deduplicated newsfeed for you from multiple personal sources. A few that immedi
by gojomo 13y ago
A bunch of startups are working on the problem of creating a customized, ranked, deduplicated newsfeed for you from multiple personal sources. A few that immediately come to mind are: Nuzzel, Prismatic, Flipboard.
Eventually Twitter will have to copy or acquire such filtering, but this also might be an important differentiator for App.net: apps whose filtering and UI innovations shouldn't be held back by platform proprietor restrictions.
- leephillips 13y agoI went to Prismatic and was annoyed that there seemed to be nothing on the landing page explaining what it was and how to use it. In search of enlightenment, I clicked the "blog" link, and was suddenly immersed in a series of amazing technical articles about Clojure. If you're interested in Clojure it looks like it's worth following their blog even if you don't care about their product.
- leephillips 13y agoAnd I was so impressed by their work that I tried to sign up. But they demand too many permissions: not only to read from your accounts, which I was ready to grant, but to write to them! No way.
- disgruntledphd2 13y agoI think that really only applies to Twitter and Facebook, as I signed up with Google and they've never shared anything on my behalf. There is a share button on each article though, which is presumably the use case. Well worth checking out (even if you do accidentally end up posting about the death of a computer science pioneer a year late :().
- leephillips 13y ago"I signed up with Google" Then you granted them permission to "Manage your data in Google Reader" (yes, it still says that) and "Manage your contacts". For me that means "managing" the contact list on my phone. The risk/benefit ratio is probably way too high.
- disgruntledphd2 13y agoSure, but they provided me with a useful service, and I like their audacity and stack. I'm pretty happy with the tradeoff, even if I don't use the service that much.
- w01fe 13y agoWe don't want write access to your Google account. Unfortunately (at least at the time we set this up) they didn't offer a read-only permissions option for contacts or Reader. We also offer a 'stealth' account with no external services, and you can always choose to attach accounts later once we gain your trust.
- leephillips 13y agoThanks for showing up to respond! Since your website says almost nothing about what Prismatic is, would you mind answering a couple of questions? Is it just an iPhone App? I'm about to replace my iPhone with an Android phone, so if that's the only way to use Prismatic I'm excluded. Why do you need to see my contact list? That seems bizarre. Why does the website say nothing about what Prismatic is or how it works? Is that a marketing strategy?
- krichman 13y agoI signed up because of their Clojure articles. I clicked the little stealth bomber and they let me use it without signing in through Twitter, Facebook, or Google. They are doing a good job, but not a great job. I find interesting articles, but also some celebrity gossip will sneak in there. For example, I learned yesterday that Jennifer Aniston looks fantastic with or without makeup. I like it, though, they find some articles that don't seem to be on Reddit or HN but which are still kind of useful.