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Congrats to the Prismatic team! I see Bradford is floating around answering questions, so I'll shoot over two: (1) Is an iPad app on your roadmap? Anything you'd like to announce? ;) (2) You once had an excellent post on your personal blog called "Learning About Machine Learning," with a list of excellent resources for learning about ML and statistics from first principles. The original post seems to be gone; are you…
2) i deleted my old blog
One thing that's tough to get right is timing email updates, and I think that Prismatic's default is great. If I get too many emails from you, I'll filter you out of my inbox ( Quora ). I also enjoy that the updates selectively target a few of my interests, as opposed to struggling to cram everything into a single email. That aside, the profile page is very buggy. The interest bubbles doesn't seem to be useful in any…
I like the concept but when I tried it out it didn't bring up anything interesting. It seems to have a heavy bias towards 'mainstream' news sites, which I rarely like to read. It seems like it is totally missing out on the 'long tail' which IMHO is where most the value in a service like this lies. The bubbles showing my 'interests' at the beginning looked quite promising, so perhaps there is some tuning that could fi…
Very cool. I envision a future where everyone gets their media through an "agent" that is truly tailor made for them. This looks like a step in that direction. How will Prismatic monetize? It would be a shame to see a service such as this offer featured articles or some other form of influence for pay. In fact, it would defeat the purpose of having something like this that would bring smaller media companies to reade…
Congrats to the Prismatic team! I see Bradford is floating around answering questions, so I'll shoot over two: (1) Is an iPad app on your roadmap? Anything you'd like to announce? ;) (2) You once had an excellent post on your personal blog called "Learning About Machine Learning," with a list of excellent resources for learning about ML and statistics from first principles. The original post seems to be gone; are you…
1) yes 2) i deleted my old blog
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Well congrats, I'm glad to hear it. My co-founder uses your app every day and loves it. My beef is that it seems TC always ties news to funding cycles, which IMO puts the focus on the wrong thing.
The author of this article injected herself into a good 30% of the story, so you shouldn't be surprised that ego is a big part of what gets published over there.
Does anyone know why the app needs permission to manage Google Contacts? The rest of the permissions make sense, I just don't get this one.
The Google Contacts OAuth authorization includes both read and write permissions, though I'm sure the intent is just to get emails to invite friends, share stories, etc. https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/#autho...
I just tried Prismatic, and while it seems interesting I don't think I would become a regular user. Though I may not the target audience.
I'm usually satisfied with Hacker News and The NY Times, though occasionally I'll look at other mainstream news sites like CNN to make sure that I'm getting a well rounded idea of what's going on in the world. I have Reddit blocked on my computer, but I'll look at it on my phone for comedy & interesting news.
After integrating with Facebook and Gmail, these are my current Prismatic headlines:
* The Huffington Post: Release Of Cult Sandwich Slated For Dec. 17, McDonald's Announces (Bad)
* RollingStone: On the Charts: Alicia Keys' 'Girl on Fire' Leads Lukewarm Week (Bad)
* Webmonkey: A Look at the Future of CSS (Okay)
* Complex.com: Inside Johnny Depp's New $17.5 Million Home in Nashville, Tennessee (Really bad)
* Skysports: Graeme Smith determined South Africa maintain momentum against New Zealand (Really bad)
The problem I see is that (a) my Facebook likes aren't necessarily representative of what I want to read about, and (b) even if they were, your system doesn't know what priority to give each like.
The result looks to me like a page full of linkbait. My experience may not be representative, but I thought I'd share it with you as it might be helpful in fine tuning your product.
Congrats on the raise :) I just tried Prismatic, and while it seems interesting I don't think I would become a regular user. Though I may not the target audience. I'm usually satisfied with Hacker News and The NY Times, though occasionally I'll look at other mainstream news sites like CNN to make sure that I'm getting a well rounded idea of what's going on in the world. I have Reddit blocked on my computer, but I'll…