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As our VP of Marketing Louis Gray wrote in November, the third wave of the web will be uniquely personal. As we grow beyond information publishing and social connections, the world is waking up to personalization and tailoring of streams to your interests in a big way. Popular tech Q&A site Quora had a discussion of this very thing in the last month... what comes next after search and social?
As the pioneer in this market, being part of this major trend means that yes, we will see lots of competition from all corners, and also incredible opportunity. Additionally, this means that my6sense is in the spotlight often.
Some interesting news of late to note:
* WebProNews, in a post by Rob Diana of Regular Geek, titled "Search, Personalization And Recommendation: The Future of Information Consumption" discussed new ways to approach our fast-moving information stream. In the post, Rob said, "When focusing on news, personalization like my6sense is probably the best option."
When you are sharing items from my6sense on your phone or tablet, we know you want them to stand out. With the great popularity of Twitter, and the service's 140 character limit, keeping URLs short has become critical important. But with so many people sharing and so many links flowing through the stream, you want to rise above the noise and show that you are sharing the very best, most relevant content.
Introducing 6sen.se, the new URL shortener from my6sense - available on Android today and coming soon to our iPhone and iPod Touch users.
6sen.se is now the default sharing domain from your Android device. See it in action by:
1. Finding an article that you like and find especially interesting.
2. Click the "Menu" button on your Android device to bring up sharing options. Click "Share on Twitter".
3. my6sense will deliver the source and headline of the message, complete with a brand-new, shortened, 6sen.se custom URL.
4. Click "Go" and the new share will hit Twitter and enter your stream, displayed as being from my6sense with this new, cool, URL shortener.
To see all the other shares flowing through the my6sense system with this custom URL, search on Twitter for 6sen.se.
Perfectly complementary, bringing out the best of your tweets
Cutting through noise on Twitter.com has never been simpler. The my6sense Chrome extension for Twitter.com displays the most important updates from your Twitter stream, for you, in a dedicated, new, tab. Same as the rest of our apps, we use 'Digital Intuition' to rank your tweets, so you can be sure you won't miss out on critical updates from your friends or top news sources.
Want to make sure you always get your top tweets? Download here.
What better way to start the year? We’re happily initiating 2011 with tweaks and enhancements to help you continue to stay perfectly informed with the my6sense on Android.
Version 1.5 includes:
· Awesome new message navigation: Now you can use your device volume controls to navigate between messages (Next/Prev)
· Enhanced Twitter features, including Favorites
· Bug fixes including Data management (Prune data in the SD CARD and in the internal memory, move to SD CARD works now in all conditions)
· Widget Improvements
· QVGA devices support
As always, we hope you enjoy the updates and please continue to share your love and feedback!
2010 has been an incredible year for us at my6sense, and our many users, who help us work to build the most intelligent products for finding the best out of your fast-growing and fast-moving social and news streams. With the year coming to a close, we thought we would start a new tradition here at my6sense headquarters - highlighting our top 6 successes of the year. We are all about the 6th sense, so buzzing in our digital intuition this year were some major milestones.
1) Intelligent personalization is recognized as the next wave of the Web.
As our new VP of Marketing, Louis Gray, wrote in November, the Web is evolving, from one first focused on information discovery to a social Web, and now, one that is becoming uniquely personal. In a world where we are bombarded with new pieces of content from news sources and our friends, we need to find smart tools to help us find the very best. GigaOM referred to the emergence of the hyper-personalized Web, while Garry Tan, Posterous CEO, said that content should be experienced by relevance and importance and interestingness, not chronologically.
Wishing you and yours a happy holiday full of cheer, love, giving and of course...intuition!
With much warmth,
The my6sense Elves
Step by step, release by release, we hope to make your social and RSS dreams (streams) come true. This week’s my6sense Android App release (V 1.3) includes:
1. Better Buzz: Read full Buzz posts in your my6sense Buzz stream, and share content with full previews to Buzz
2. Twitter Tweaks: You can now send replies and direct messages from your Twitter stream
3. Set Sorting: ‘Remember my last sorting mode’. Per your requests, we adjusted the app so that when you sort a stream by time or relevance, that sorting becomes the default view for that particular stream. Notes: 1. Initial default sorting for all streams is relevance. 2. Applies to each stream individually
4. Improved Items: Bringing you a more dynamic stream view with regards to read and skipped items
5. Twelve hr Time filter: Added 12 hour time filter for relevant items (see ‘Menu’->’Settings’ in the app homescreen)
6. Instapaper! Save items to instapaper from the app
We’ve been working hard (and continue to do so…) to bring all you fandroids the my6sense Android App version 1.2 - now available in the Google Android market.
Here’s what’s new in this version:
We hope you enjoy the updated app.
market://search?q=pname:com.my6sense.client.android
Please keep sending in your requests and input, we’re listening!
Cheers,
The my6sense Team
