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me of the news feeds that are common in the financial markets. I predicted that we'd see more of that in the coming years
This aggregation of information into a news feed has been adopted by many of the new web services that we get to see in our office every week. I'd say its the most common web UI/home page we see these
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- The web continues to grow and browsing is getting less and less efficient. Search was the first solution to that problem and it's a huge part of the web experience now. Feeds are the second solution to that problem and I believe they will be an equally big part of the web experience. If you look at my google analytics data, you see that search drives only 29% of all visits to this blog and referring links drive over 40%.
- But think about the Facebook generation. My kids are growing up with the news feed as their start page. Not Yahoo's portal approach and NOT google's search box approach. In time, its entirely possible that feeds will be more powerful than search.

19 Sep 08

Never Read Passively: Should we reunite fragmented conversations?

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As a producer of content on a small scale, discussion matters. Each comment matters. Post-generated-discussion is a positive feedback system for obtaining critical feedback, promoting work product through user engagement, and ultimately driving future content production. The problem is that such discussion is fragmented.
Communities form, and users particulate in conversations around content with other like-minded users. I know I do. I care more about the opinions and discussion of fellow users on hacker news than I do the conversations that occur on the linked posts that are discussed, or the discussions within parallel communities such as reddit.
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- From the consumer perspective, fragmentation of online discussions is part of the natural evolution of the space, like traditional broadcast media.
- Conversations are markets, and are therefore valuable both directly (what is said), and generally (eyeballs).
- Conversations may not belong on blogs, alt
- Fragmentation is a liberator of content and a democratize of content producers. Consumers are happy with the fragmentation, providing better and more focused content and comment along a variety of axes. Given that comments are useful, even valuable, the content producer has two clear problems, eyeballs and keeping up with the discussion.
- Does this re-integrated belong on the post? I think no. Would it drive traffic back to the originating source? Again, I think no, although I think it could offer something to consumers participating in the discussion.

07 Sep 08

ReadWriteWeb Recommendation Feed Favs - AideRSS (Best) - powered by FeedBurner

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Disqus 2.0: New Plugin, New Interface, And Local Comment Backup

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06 Sep 08

Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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With so many different platforms to aggregate, noise levels are surging. An underlying issue in the level of noise is that some of these services were not made to interact with one another
Users should also note when you may be confusing aggregation with importation.
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- How does this affect noise levels? If you're using a service to promote content, you may be considered noisy to those that are looking for conversations. If you're using a platform to keep in touch, then those looking for content and in depth conversation surrounding particular content would need a way to block out idle chatter.