I totally get where you're coming from here. I just want to be able to customize my social media experience fully and completely. Is that so much to ask? :)
Seriously, though, you're on to a real issue. And since there's a real need to have both compartmentalization and seamlessness at the same time, I gotta believe some smart buggers out there will come up with just the thing.
Bob Caswell
· 8 months ago
Here's hoping! I like the way you put it. And don't forget that with the compartmentalization and seamlessness, it has to be super intuitive and easy to setup quickly. At least, in my wishful thinking mind...
tom4cam
· 8 months ago
The more you customize, the more it becomes complicated. I don't really care about making the distinction between family, friends, coworkers, etc. -- a simple 5-star rating system would be fine with me. I just want the content to bubble up in order of importance to me. Tweets, blog articles, and delicious tags from "5-star" people I am following should always be at the top when I look at incoming content because I may not have time to get to much else. Better yet, why can't it just keep track of my use patterns (which blogs and tweets I read) and adjust accordingly. Rating/classifying stuff gets old, but I would be willing to do it once if there were a clean, consistent widget that would pop up as I added each person to some service. Thoughts?
Bob Caswell
· 8 months ago
Interesting, Logan and I were discussing in a separate thread how recommendation engines still don't work very well (i.e., my friends help me pick movies better than Netflix can). I think the same problem will exist here if you try to jumble everything together and hope the computer can spit back what you really want just based off some previous star ratings.
But your idea of tracking usage patters is really interesting. It'd be cool if you could have a "usage patter" feed that you could switch to from your "regular" feed, sort of a greatest hits way of looking at the current stream of info.
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Seriously, though, you're on to a real issue. And since there's a real need to have both compartmentalization and seamlessness at the same time, I gotta believe some smart buggers out there will come up with just the thing.
But your idea of tracking usage patters is really interesting. It'd be cool if you could have a "usage patter" feed that you could switch to from your "regular" feed, sort of a greatest hits way of looking at the current stream of info.