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Prismatic Hopes to Create a New Category of Social News

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Re: Prismatic Hopes to Create a New Category of Social News

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As a recent daily user, prismatic is awesome.

The way they leverage twitter is pretty interesting, mixing in "endorsements" to articles from both people close to you, famous people, and random people, in a way that keeps it interesting.

There's also fairly heavy machine learning going on behind the scenes, in a way that is non intrusive. Congratulations to those guys.

Re: Prismatic Hopes to Create a New Category of Social News

#5
I love prismatic - its completely replaced Google reader for me. I find that it consistently shows articles that are really relevant to me, from sources I've never even considered. Often, I'll find highly relevant things on prismatic a few hours before a friend emails me the same article that they found through some other source.

Re: Prismatic Hopes to Create a New Category of Social News

#6
I use Prismatic daily. It does an amazing job of crawling the web and curating news articles that are aligned with my interest. Many of these articles I would normally not see and have no idea that they even exist. Prismatic is my primary method of news consumption now. There is a feeling of serendipitous discovery every time I use it, which keeps the delight factor high!

Re: Prismatic Hopes to Create a New Category of Social News

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The only thing about it that I really dislike is that there's no option to delete or cancel your account (a trend with startups). I don't fall to the silly excuse that it's in beta or that they'll have such options "soon". This should be there since day 1. Shows respect for the user/tester and sends the message that your information/data is yours to keep/remove whenever you want.

Keep in mind that this is not a criticism towards Prismatic (which is really cool and well done), I just used them as an example to a common startup practice.

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