A personal link mill
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A personal link mill
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Re: A personal link mill
#2At intigi.com we're trying to solve this problem and have a beta product working. It not only helps you find interesting links in the way described in the article, but it also helps curating and sharing them.
Re: A personal link mill
#3Funny thing. I'm currently building one right now - disturbingly close to your product idea. It's currently a "generalized feed consumer" that presents a user with "stream of [de-duplicated] links to consume..."
I'm just starting to use it for most of my content consumption, so that I have a nice corpus of data about my preferences. The goal is to eventually develop a predictive model to start filtering content with...
Re: A personal link mill
#4I would definitely use this, and probably (depending on just how much it improved my life) pay to use it.
One tip, to solve the "chicken and egg" problem of getting a good garden going while still consuming current levels of information, allow the user to choose to include some of those "low quality" sources as well.
For example, right now the vast majority of my info comes from HN and Reddit, both from links and comments. Ideally I'd be able to subscribe the service and keep getting all that info, then as I slowly build up my own more personalized, curated sources I could slowly start to remove the low-quality sources. I think if you could make this a pretty frictionless process you'd have a winner.
Re: A personal link mill
#5At intigi.com we're trying to solve this problem and have a beta product working. It not only helps you find interesting links in the way described in the article, but it also helps curating and sharing them.
Your site is a similar concept, but it seems to (from the little info on the front page) be much more geared toward people looking for content to share with others. I think the OP is describing a system geared toward finding content to consume for personal use.
In addition, your system seems to be more about automatically finding content, whereas the OP's system is much more manual and curated by the user.
I signed up for your beta list because I actually think your idea is interesting, but I think they solve two different problems.
Re: A personal link mill
#6Funny thing. I'm currently building one right now - disturbingly close to your product idea. It's currently a "generalized feed consumer" that presents a user with "stream of [de-duplicated] links to consume..." I'm just starting to use it for most of my content consumption, so that I have a nice corpus of data about my preferences. The goal is to eventually develop a predictive model to start filtering content with.…
Sounds cool, can you share a link/download ?
Re: A personal link mill
#7The google reader stack I use is to use the share button to 'save' items. Those items get added to your own RRS feed. From that feed you can do your post processing as this link did for later reading.
(edit: to see your shared items go to http://www.google.com/reader/shared/username)
Re: A personal link mill
#8Funny thing. I'm currently building one right now - disturbingly close to your product idea. It's currently a "generalized feed consumer" that presents a user with "stream of [de-duplicated] links to consume..." I'm just starting to use it for most of my content consumption, so that I have a nice corpus of data about my preferences. The goal is to eventually develop a predictive model to start filtering content with.…
Sounds cool, can you share a link/download ?
Sorry, not at the moment. Perhaps in a few weeks, once things have stabilized...
Re: A personal link mill
#9Funny thing. I'm currently building one right now - disturbingly close to your product idea. It's currently a "generalized feed consumer" that presents a user with "stream of [de-duplicated] links to consume..." I'm just starting to use it for most of my content consumption, so that I have a nice corpus of data about my preferences. The goal is to eventually develop a predictive model to start filtering content with.…
Funny, I have a personal wiki page with a couple hundred words of notes about doing exactly this. Please drop an email when you want beta users. :)