Comments on: IDEA #41- Digg based on Your Friends and Network

By: Piyush Singh

Piyush Singh — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:50:00 +0000

dude ur a genius, this is yahoo’s news article app fb! only u thought of it 4 years ago

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By: Hishomita

Hishomita — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:00:04 +0000

CoReap is pretty to close to it: http://www.coreap.com

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:29:17 +0000

Oops, an oversight: Facebook’s new layout (as of yesterday) has “Posted items” listed on the hot buttons on the left frame that links to all recently posted items by your Friends. Also lets you subscribe to an RSS feed of your friends’ posts. Better yet if it let me rate my friends’ posts (their usefulness to me) and learned from it, or inferred it a la News Feeds learning.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:57:38 +0000

Each Facebook user can modify how much s/he wants Posted Items (that other friends “share” on their profiles) to show up on their News Feed, which is the home page when logging in. You can select up to 40 people you want to track, and an equalizer allows you to select more/less of the Posted Items, Photo posts, status updates, etc. A dedicated channel within that homepage that only showed posts of my top poster-friends would be a great feature to get the result we’re talking about.

By: RBA

RBA — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:26:18 +0000

Stan, wouldn’t that be a “collection of feeds”? I’m not saying that’s a bad idea, and perhaps there’s room in coRank for something like that, but I think that’s different from “gathering what your sources (people) consider interesting, and give you a feed of either all of those items, or those that are found to be most relevant according to all your sources.

BTW, thanks for the comments about coRank. It is still a very young site (it launched on March 8th, 2007), it is still learning how to walk, and things are still a bit flat, but I think it’s moving in the right direction.

By: Phil Freo

Phil Freo — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:07:43 +0000

I’d say that Facebook is attempting to do this to a huge (mostly college) market by introducing “Shares” where your friends can view websites/blog posts/videos that you like.

By: Stan James

Stan James — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:33:56 +0000

Corank was new to me, but looks great. I’m signing up now.

But… I think they are limited in that your “sources” and “fans” must be other corank users. The better solution is to allow any RSS feed to be one of your sources: a delicious user’s feed, a New York Times feed, etc…

By: Michael Young

Michael Young — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:55:00 +0000

That’s really funny, I was thinking of this exact same concept as well, except with a few twists. I figured that people would be really like to know what some of the more well-known members of the community are reading.

You might say that the concept is just like a blog. You could do it on a blog, true, but blogs are more for voicing one’s opinion or providing a relatively large amount of detail about something.

My idea is more like the Facebook Share feature where a user can just click a bookmarklet and have the content of the page they’re on shared with their friends.
The problem with Facebook Sharing is that no one really cares because the site isn’t used for news, plus you can’t choose to selectively share content (i.e. just with family, just with friends, just with friends that live with you, etc.)

My idea revolved around trust in individuals rather than the wisdom of the crowds. So say Mike Arrington had his own “Read Feed” and he shared anything he read that was interesting on it. I bet a lot of people would subscribe to that feed. It would be a lot easier for him in terms of time, he would be able to share a lot more information with readers and he would even be able to make money doing it. I would have the site share revenue with the people who are “influencers” (i.e.Arrington, Scoble, Don Dodge, etc.) so that they have an incentive to keep posting links that are interesting. Anyone can become an influencer.

This can easily be expanded and tweaked so that you can see various network effects too, such as most popular articles amongst all users.

It’s very similar to del.icio.us, Google Reader, etc. but different enough to be useful methinks.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:44:37 +0000

Steve;

There it is — “Duh!”

Nice name for the site, too… Corank!