Comments on: Thinking About Content Consumption

By: greghills

greghills — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:01:43 +0000

Same here. Now that I always have my computer hooked up to my home TV, I'm starting to think about that screen as well.

I'm now in the (bad?) habit of having TV in my apartment on as background — having some sitcom or news on with the volume down low. I'd like a personalized video feed that just runs on my TV while I'm hanging around my apartment. If I see something I like, I'd turn up the volume or add to my Boxee queue. That would be the feedback loop for giving me better and more relevant content in my personalized feed.

By: jonathanmendez

jonathanmendez — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:49:47 +0000

Seems to me that our own actions can be used to create a content consumption taxonomy that can then be used to power some feed mash-up of our content discovery and content recovery goals. I think there are some interesting things happening along these lines in the semantic tech space.

Google personalized search is also working on solving these problems including some of the temporal and behavioral attributes you allude to. Part of the issue is solving these problem on the per-user level just does not provide the robust data sets necessary to accurately tune relevance. This is after all at the end of the day, like so much else on the web, a matching problem.

Personally I quite like the various content consumption tools at my disposal. I have 60 blogs on RSS, follow 350 people on Twitter, I get some interesting content everyday via email and I am pretty active searching Google, YouTube & LinkedIn. Only five years my content consumption world was barren compared to this. I'm psyched to hear you're working on trying to make it even better.

By: dherman76

dherman76 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:38:55 +0000

You do raise a great point – my second monitor has become solely dedicated to consuming. Techmeme, Tweetmeme,and Tweetdeck are almost always open in it. Great point.

By: jonsteinberg

jonsteinberg — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:31:48 +0000

I do devote a whole screen- my second monitor is tweetdeck. I've yet to find curration services compelling. I like to pick my own sources, 15 blogs I read each day, and let te rest come via friends on twitter.

Techmeme does some curration, and I read it, but it's more because it picks the most popular stories in our industry.