bradfordcross

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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   you can search for and add just about anything you can think of. give it a try. you'll quick branch out into totally new areas.
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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   Yes, the profile is super broken and new. We're focusing a lot of energy on it now. Please forward your bugs to feedback@getprismatic.com and they will be fixed quickly.
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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   1) yes 2) i deleted my old blog
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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   Yes, please excuse this horrible issue. I think it is actually a UX fail, but we are not quite sure yet and tracking it down!
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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   We are not solving the signal from noise problem. We think that's not the right way to frame modern relevance.
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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   We're working on it. Hopefully we start to get some pieces out early next year!
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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   Actually, Alexia approached us months ago and had been converted into a believer! It's a pretty common story for us. People are grumpy about news apps because they've been frustrated in the past, then their friends share a bunch of intere
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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   We'd love to hear what you think stinks about our UI/UX. Reply here or ping us at feedback@getprismatic.com
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   by bradfordcross 14y ago

   You are bucketing Prismatic with "other services" without trying it or understanding what it does. Give it a shot, I think you'll find that it is designed to increase those serendipitous finds, not to filter signal from noise.
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    thanks! 1. look at the jobs page: http://getprismatic.com/jobs <--- you will get the platform soon if we have anything to say about it! :) 2. see #1. 3. Really interesting interaction idea. we're exploring "the many uses of save"
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    Great to hear you say that - the web app was such as disaster! now we have a pretty good foundation to iterate fast on the web, which is super important for some of the really finicky design problems like social interactions that are so ha
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    Jason is the man and we'll be prodding him into doing more posts and starting to open source a bunch of our clojure stack.
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    Thanks Toby, hopefully we'll get good enough at hiring to take advantage of the cash and make those several times a day a lot more enjoyable! :)
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    we don't look at browser history, but we may release a browser plugin for chrome that lets you share, recommend, and save stories from the web to prismatic.
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    We want to understand exactly what you mean. Can you please send a screenshot to feedback@getprismatic.com ?
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    Prismatic learns from everything you do. We have implicit signals (when you recommend, share, shave, remove, or click), and explicit signals, when you follow topics, publishers, or people. We know more about your interests than anyone, an
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    for realz, the web needed so much love some of internally were not using it much due to utter shame!
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    thanks!
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    It means there is something you can buy. Click the link and you go to amazon and if you buy whatever the item is, we get an affiliate. this is early testing of the revenue model we're working on.
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    1. it may go away entirely soon or change dramatically. We largely agree with your sentiment. :) 2. Yes, the meta serif turns out to be as readable as it gets for body copy, it's just spectacular! We may later have a toggle so you can se
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    These perms are just to be able to use your address book so that we can autocomplete emails when you email share stories.
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    Another commenter pointed this out, it's a fair criticism and we'll make an update to the blog accordingly.
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    What in particular do you dislike?
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    Great point. It's always easy to assume context where there is none! :)
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    thanks, we've gotten bad about testing on windows lately. the team is growing so we'll be able to do a better job across OS's and on mobile web soon. please excuse the temporary rubbish. :)
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    Are you folks looking at the site on windows? browser/os?
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    Hi All, Jason spent a lot of time recently to make our Global Newsfeed pretty solid. We wrestle with the right balance between Google News (which we feel is not really updated for the social internet) and most popular news from social netw
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    A trip to Paris: Amazing stop motion video hacking(youtube.com)

    3 points by bradfordcross 14y ago|0 comments
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    We'd really like to get some detailed feedback on what's not working for you about the design. feedback@getprismatic.com
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    by bradfordcross 14y ago

    We love to get feedback on the design issues feedback@getprismatic.com We know there's a lot wrong with the details you're bringing up. There are some items in the trackers that deal with helping you see more quickly why a particular stor