Prismatic wants to build a social network around all of your interests
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#2Looking awesome!
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#3I remember building the first gaming dashboard at facebook. The assumption is that things are better with friends (true) and that your friends can be a good filter for content (largely false). People are different, even your friends. I think Prismatic is really on to something here, a lot like the promise of hunch. A service that understands me (whiskey, zombies, startups, catan, nukes, ...) will eventually do a lot better than a friend ranked filter.
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#4Digging it. Seems pretty accurate so far.
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#5What I find interesting about this idea is the way it crystalizes networks of interest. I think Twitter creates these networks informally, at least the way I use it, but having something more explicit offers new possibilities.
I have to add that most companies would have rested on their laurels with great UIs like the previous Prismatic apps. So, I applaud these guys for not settling on an already great tool, but taking risks to move forward.
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#6I played around with Prismatic before but it just didn’t grab me and I found I didn’t use it that much.
This new version is a whole different animal. Not only is it much prettier (great design) but they seem to have seriously improved their relevance algorithms. I would be very interested to hear from their data team why the relevance is so much better now - anyone from Prismatic monitoring these comments?
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#7I like Prismatic a lot and find it very useful and their relevance algos are top notch. I just don't understand why they cannot scrape and suggest high quality news sites like the NY Times. I mean if Google News can, why can't Prismatic as well?
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#9They can start by building an Android app!
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#10I played around with Prismatic before but it just didn’t grab me and I found I didn’t use it that much. This new version is a whole different animal. Not only is it much prettier (great design) but they seem to have seriously improved their relevance algorithms. I would be very interested to hear from their data team why the relevance is so much better now - anyone from Prismatic monitoring these comments?
Glad you're liking it! I'm one of the backend engineers who designed the system. We devoted a good chunk of time this year to improving our relevance algorithms, and I actually gave a talk on exactly this at Strangeloop in September. The video is at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/machine-learning.