MineKey widget is up. Try it out
By Vivek | May 23rd, 2007 at 04:21 pm ET
Earlier today I installed a new widget from MineKey on the blog(right column, below Yourminis widget). You can read about it’s working process from my previous post on MineKey.
To get the widget working for you and deliver personalized results, you need to click on few article links in the widget to indicate what you like. While the idea might sound great, I don’t think it will be intuitive for most of the first time users.
Also from my observation since morning, MineKey does not provide you with newer links unless you click on few of them. I had expected the widget to determine context of the page to deliver new articles every time. As it seems, that part is not happening and same recommendations are popping up on every page. Will talk with MineKey team for a possible update.
On the whole, there is a very fine line between what is relevant and what is not. It would be interesting to know on which side MineKey’s recommendation fall.
on May 25th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Vivek - As per our discussion this morning ….I have posted an update on the Minekey blog …check it out: http://www.minekey.com/blog/2007/05/25/recommendations-latency-issue/
on June 4th, 2007 at 2:13 am
[…] MineKey, the content recommendation service delivered via a widget that I had written about couple of times earlier, is now performing way better - actually, perfectly. Earlier, the widget had issues resolving FeedBurner URLS, which has now been fixed according to the MineKey team. Now the recommendations are working as they were expected to in the first place - take in consideration your browsing tastes and history to recommend relevant articles from select feeds. Each new pageview now results in 5 new content recommendations(of course it still depends on how big of an index it is polling against). […]
on August 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
[…] I have already written about Minekey few times and also have the news recommendation widget up and working on the blog. From the product strategy standpoint, instead of focusing directly on the users, Minekey is currently talking with quite a few media publishing companies who have silos of content but not real way to deliver relevant recommendations based on the user tastes. Minekey’s publisher platform enables media companies to associate their select news feeds with each of the widget they want to place on their site. From the user perspective, as they browse through different pages on a particular site and also click on news links in the Minekey recommendation widget, it keeps storing their browsing tastes and history to recommend relevant articles. […]