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Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by plinkplonk »

kia wrote: post #9

There is a reason why I would never use such service like Prismatic. The main problem for me here is that it creates a confined universe for you where you are surrounded by only "relevant" information. For example I don't care much about fashion, but once in a while reading NY Times I stumble upon a very interesting articles about new trends in fashion or its history. It makes me think out of the box and expands my k…

Nobody confines you to reading only articles surfaced by Prismatic. (and it does a great job btw)

If you could choose between universe where you don't have Prismatic and another where you have the option of using it, you'd seriously prefer the former?

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by bradfordcross »

kia wrote: post #9

There is a reason why I would never use such service like Prismatic. The main problem for me here is that it creates a confined universe for you where you are surrounded by only "relevant" information. For example I don't care much about fashion, but once in a while reading NY Times I stumble upon a very interesting articles about new trends in fashion or its history. It makes me think out of the box and expands my k…

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.

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by tvladeck »

bradfordcross wrote: post #6
briandoll wrote: post #5

Great news! I've been using the Prismatic app daily since it came out. It perfectly fits the job of "what's going on". I tend to skim on the iPhone and save good articles to read later (or with Pocket, another favorite). The tech is really interesting too. High Scalability had a post this summer on how it all works: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/7/30/prismatic-architec...

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.

not sure if this is the place for feedback, but i've been a hardcore user of prismatic since it came out (love it!), but one thing i've been getting is pretty bad repeated text. just sentences repeated over and over again.

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by w01fe »

tvladeck wrote: post #13
bradfordcross wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

not sure if this is the place for feedback, but i've been a hardcore user of prismatic since it came out (love it!), but one thing i've been getting is pretty bad repeated text. just sentences repeated over and over again.

Thanks for the kind words and feedback. The best way to let us know is to email feedback@getprismatic.com with details (iPhone/Web, Browser, any other details), and we'll do our best to fix it ASAP.

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

bradfordcross wrote: post #6
briandoll wrote: post #5

Great news! I've been using the Prismatic app daily since it came out. It perfectly fits the job of "what's going on". I tend to skim on the iPhone and save good articles to read later (or with Pocket, another favorite). The tech is really interesting too. High Scalability had a post this summer on how it all works: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/7/30/prismatic-architec...

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.

The Graph library is intriguing to me, would love to see some of your stuff open sourced.

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by michelleclsun »

bradfordcross wrote: post #8
michelleclsun wrote: post #4

Awesome, very useful product, definitely one of the most relevant news aggregation services currently. The recent web redesign also enhanced desktop use as well. Congratulations team!

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 hard to iterate on mobile.

Yeah, it's a visible improvement. And it's now my daily routine to go to Hacker News and getPrismatic.com every morning! :)

One thing I missed was to navigate to topics from my home feed. Before I used to be able to on the right menu I think, now I need to click into my profile every time to go back to my subscribed interests.

It was useful to be able to view by topics because the home feed is a mashup of all topics (which can range from work to personal interest). Would love to hear your thoughts as well!

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by riffraff »

bradfordcross wrote: post #12
kia wrote: post #9

There is a reason why I would never use such service like Prismatic. The main problem for me here is that it creates a confined universe for you where you are surrounded by only "relevant" information. For example I don't care much about fashion, but once in a while reading NY Times I stumble upon a very interesting articles about new trends in fashion or its history. It makes me think out of the box and expands my k…

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.

I like prismatic, but it doesn't increase _that_ kind of serendipitous finds.

I follow mostly techie and economics topics, and I have never seen a fashion article. Heck, I'd consider it a bug if I did :)

(I do not think that is the job prismatic should be doing either)

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