Interest Graph
The interest graph: spanning serendipity vs. search, personalised vs. popular information/news; http://eicker.at/InterestGraph
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Gerrit Eicker
Hunch
Undecided? Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it; http://tr.im/ox2g
Hunch: “In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a great solution to your problem, concern or dilemma, on hundreds of topics. Hunch’s answers are based on the collective knowledge of the entire Hunch community, narrowed down to people like you, or just enough like you that you might be mistaken for each other in a dark room. Hunch is designed so that every time it’s used, it learns something new. That means Hunch’s hunches are always getting better.”
TC/UK: “Hunch, the new startup from Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, has launched and it’s beguilingly fun. After filling out 42 questions ranging from ‘Have you sky dived’ to ‘Do you like it when the cabin crew cracks jokes on airplanes?’ I was presented with a number of things I might be interested in (I chose which film directors I should watch: Tim Burton). I was hooked enough to fill out the profile page (you can get answers without logging in) and at this point it becomes clear: Hunch is a social network where the social object is sharing questions (and thus answers) which might be relevant to you. The more questions you answer the more your profile page become relevant to you. And you can of course share those questions around with a widget.”
TC: “Other sites will be able to tap into Hunch’s question-selection and answer-selection algorithms to create their own Q&A system. Using Hunch’s API, a developer could create a custom product recommendation app for retail sites. Bob’s Bait And Tackle shop could set up a series of questions and answers to guide shoppers to the perfect fly or fishing tackle. All of these questions and answers would then feed back into Hunch’s core system. The more people who use the system, the smarter it should get.”
Mashable: “When we last used Hunch, we were impressed by its accuracy and the breadth of content it covered. Now, we’re simply astounded. I thought of practically every question I could really want to ask, and Hunch had a decision tree to help me resolve my doubts. In that regard, Hunch and its community really does help.”
SEL: “After testing a range of different topics and questions I found the results or answers to be uneven. But the process is very interesting and useful, forcing you to consider priorities or criteria at each stage. Caterina Fake told us that she saw Hunch getting better over time.“