People miss Google Reader, but they also wouldn't use it if Mountain View brought it back. They think they would, but they wouldn't. Something else is needed. Shuhaku is Levantine Arabic for "What did they say?" It's a news and blog aggregator meant to help people find the fresh information that they will find the most interesting and useful. It's about text. It's about the galaxy brain. It's not about fame, and it's not about vitriol. Shuhaku is a news aggregator that's designed to be just social enough.
It has four panels: a front page that shows the world what all the users are most interested in at any given moment. Inside, it has a classic feed reader aggregating from RSS. It has a social panel that shows you what other accounts you've linked to are reading. Users also have a limited number of votes each day to boost content to the select panel, which runs on shares, votes and each users social graph. That's where stuff gets personally curated. It also has comments but they work like encrypted chat, they are only readable by linked accounts. There are crucial limitations; emoji will be clutch.
Type: [ streamed talk / demo ] [demo website]
Length*: [ 30 minutes ]
Date: [site live as demo Aug 3 - 7][talk between August 7-9 ]
Duration: [site: a few days. Talk: once ]
Language: [ english ]
*Note: all talks will be capped at 30 minutes with time for discussion and questions
Objective
1) To give us impetus to get a first version to demo state.
2) To get people's impressions of our basic design.
3) To advance the idea of minimally social social media.
Brady Dale is a reporter at CoinDesk, who has previously written for Motherboard, Fortune, Ars Technica, the Columbia Journalism Review and others. David Floyd is a developer at Condé Nast who previously worked as a journalist at CoinDesk and Investopedia.
Description
People miss Google Reader, but they also wouldn't use it if Mountain View brought it back. They think they would, but they wouldn't. Something else is needed. Shuhaku is Levantine Arabic for "What did they say?" It's a news and blog aggregator meant to help people find the fresh information that they will find the most interesting and useful. It's about text. It's about the galaxy brain. It's not about fame, and it's not about vitriol. Shuhaku is a news aggregator that's designed to be just social enough.
It has four panels: a front page that shows the world what all the users are most interested in at any given moment. Inside, it has a classic feed reader aggregating from RSS. It has a social panel that shows you what other accounts you've linked to are reading. Users also have a limited number of votes each day to boost content to the select panel, which runs on shares, votes and each users social graph. That's where stuff gets personally curated. It also has comments but they work like encrypted chat, they are only readable by linked accounts. There are crucial limitations; emoji will be clutch.
Type: [ streamed talk / demo ] [demo website] Length*: [ 30 minutes ]
Date: [site live as demo Aug 3 - 7][talk between August 7-9 ]
Duration: [site: a few days. Talk: once ] Language: [ english ]
*Note: all talks will be capped at 30 minutes with time for discussion and questions
Objective
1) To give us impetus to get a first version to demo state. 2) To get people's impressions of our basic design. 3) To advance the idea of minimally social social media.
Material and Technical Requirements
Platform: [ videoconferencing, a demo website ]
Presenter(s)
Name: Brady Dale
Email: comedian@protonmail.com
Url(s): https://bradydale.com/ Twitter: @BradyDale
GitHub: BradyDale
Name: David Floyd
Email: davidfloyd91@gmail.com
Url(s): https://davidfloyd91.github.io/ Twitter: @davidfloyd512
GitHub: davidfloyd91
Presenter Bios
Brady Dale is a reporter at CoinDesk, who has previously written for Motherboard, Fortune, Ars Technica, the Columbia Journalism Review and others. David Floyd is a developer at Condé Nast who previously worked as a journalist at CoinDesk and Investopedia.