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Yeah, we don't have content ourselves, our value add is the ranking and filter service. Also, allowing you to see the conversation across the web. UGC would be

Yeah, we don't have content ourselves, our value add is the ranking and filter service. Also, allowing you to see the conversation across the web. UGC would be tough, because I'm at a chicken and egg state right now as you pointed out. And crap comments would lead to more crap comments. Imagine if Quora or Hacker News had a comment bot. Sets a bad tone for the future. i guess there may be a flaw in my initial strategy. when training my algorithm (and as i make iterations), I compare the results to google news to make sure we're as good if not better. That's why a lot of the initial top-level categories match up pretty closely. Sports vs sports http://sports.rawsignal.com/ http://sports.rawsignal.com/ http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&topic=s&ict=ln http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=... However, once I'm more confident in the algo, I'll let it loose on something more niche, like college football http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ that's how we can differentiate from google, but i never realized that having too many options would paralyze people. maybe if i release each vertical under its own domain . . .

JonathanWCurd 16y ago
I think that nailing down the smaller more focused categories is the way to go. If you can make it both more relevant and more focused it would be both different and useful providing a real reason to give it a try.
- mysteryleo 16y ago
  sure i can work on that next. what initial categories would rock your world? also, should i brand each category as its own site, or is the current model ok?
  - mysteryleo 16y ago
    ok, i put up baseball, basketball, and football: http://football.rawsignal.com/ http://football.rawsignal.com/ http://basketball.rawsignal.com/ http://basketball.rawsignal.com/ http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ http://baseball.rawsignal.com/ http://baseball.rawsignal.com/ had to refungle some code to speed up our analysis, but it should be working. hope you like it.

JonathanWCurd 16y ago

I think that nailing down the smaller more focused categories is the way to go. If you can make it both more relevant and more focused it would be both different and useful providing a real reason to give it a try.

mysteryleo 16y ago
sure i can work on that next. what initial categories would rock your world? also, should i brand each category as its own site, or is the current model ok?
- mysteryleo 16y ago
  ok, i put up baseball, basketball, and football: http://football.rawsignal.com/ http://football.rawsignal.com/ http://basketball.rawsignal.com/ http://basketball.rawsignal.com/ http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ http://baseball.rawsignal.com/ http://baseball.rawsignal.com/ had to refungle some code to speed up our analysis, but it should be working. hope you like it.