I heard the guy who patented those sliders (to narrow search results) made about 60 million dollars for about two days work. One of my friends went to interview at some company he was associated with.
Ick
What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
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Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#32There is an interesting idea growing bigger and bigger in recent months. Some say that proliferation of feedback-based recommendation engines and machine learning algorithms for predicting "what I may like to read next" is bad for our society, because eventually people will be revolving in their own little narrow worlds of interests, reading/watching/listening same stuff without exposure to anything new, disruptive a…
I fail to see how systems that I use precisely because they are stimulating and curiosity-satisfying are going to dull my mind.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#33Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#34I'm a founder of jaanix. Just a bit of background - jaanix is not a regular social news site. First of all everything is personalized - and not just by tweaking some settings or selecting your favorite tags, but in a machine learning way - the system tries to guess what you will like and acts accordingly. It uses implicit feedback too, so it tracks your clicks and tries to learn from it, but you can always see how it…
Looks neat. I think after voting you should replace the up with "jaa" and the down with "nix" because I didn't understand the name until I read the explanation that will presumably not always be on the fp.
Absolutely! Not only that, but it lends itself to the kind of memetic repetition that can make websites really popular (e.g., "Digg this", "Reddit this", etc.).
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#35I've been quietly rooting for Jaanix for a while, ever since the creator first posted a link to it on Reddit. You guys have been constantly tweaking and tuning the site, and listening to suggestions, and it's looking great now.
That said, the infinite scroll thing drives me a little nutty. Since I'm usually stealing time away from something to screw around on a news site somewhere online, I try to say to myself, "I'll just read 2 pages", or "I'll just scan the first page, I only have a couple of minutes". But, I can't do that on Jaanix. On the other hand, I think it's a cool feature, and I get why you want to use it.
Is there an on/off switch for it in user settings maybe? (I'm not currently a registered Jaanix user.)
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#36I'm a founder of jaanix. Just a bit of background - jaanix is not a regular social news site. First of all everything is personalized - and not just by tweaking some settings or selecting your favorite tags, but in a machine learning way - the system tries to guess what you will like and acts accordingly. It uses implicit feedback too, so it tracks your clicks and tries to learn from it, but you can always see how it…
The main purpose of the site is to let you find stuff that you will not find on other popularity based systems. I find stuff that is on the front page of digg or reddit almost 100% noise, at the same time, the posts that I care about are buried or ignored by the majority. jaanix is not a democracy, it is more of a trading place for links. Your reputation matters, your feedback matters, the quality of the links matter…
Those are my two favorite paradigms for social news sites:
1) A machine-learning engine which gives you recommendations based on your behavior/tastes.
2) A focused community where articles revolve on the same topics, ordered by popularity and freshness.
Whereas the first one seems intuitively more powerful (I'm currently experimenting with Tiinker and Jaanix), the second one (for example Hacker News) has given me better quality content so far.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main purpose of the site is to let you find stuff that you will not find on other popularity based systems. I find stuff that is on the front page of digg or reddit almost 100% noise, at the same time, the posts that I care about are buried or ignored by the majority. jaanix is not a democracy, it is more of a trading place for links. Your reputation matters, your feedback matters, the quality of the links matter…
Those are my two favorite paradigms for social news sites: 1) A machine-learning engine which gives you recommendations based on your behavior/tastes. 2) A focused community where articles revolve on the same topics, ordered by popularity and freshness. Whereas the first one seems intuitively more powerful (I'm currently experimenting with Tiinker and Jaanix), the second one (for example Hacker News) has given me bet…
jaanix can be both - for example: http://jaanix.com/security or http://jaanix.com/rails are pretty focused.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#38Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't figure out how to post. I see the toolbar, but I'm not about to install a toolbar. Sorry.
Also, I really dislike the "infinite scroll" feature. Otherwise the site seems attractive.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#39Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't figure out how to post. I see the toolbar, but I'm not about to install a toolbar. Sorry. Also, I really dislike the "infinite scroll" feature. Otherwise the site seems attractive.
You do not have to install anything, just bookmark a link that lets you post. The best way is to put it in the links toolbar of your browser, but it doesn't have to be there.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#40I like it. I've kicked around this idea for a couple of years now. Now automate the sliders for me.
the sliders are updated based on your feedback already, you do not have to touch them, they will work as indicators of your interest just fine.