Yesterday I got an email from one of our users. I’m not sure what this user’s Hubski name is, but he thought that Hubski could use a bookmarklet. That is, we needed a way that you could submit content from your browser while you were roaming about the web.
That was a good idea. Today we have a bookmarklet.
In addition, I put together our first Hubski button. So, if you have a website or blog, you can add a Hubski submission button if you like.
The bookmarklet and button can be found here: http://hubski.com/buttons. The permanent link is on the bottom of the page.
In addition to this, you might notice that the hubwheel by your name has a different number of circles. This hubwheel still provides an estimate of your influence and activity upon the site, but instead of very slowly filling in, now it keeps spinning around. You can find a count of how many times it has gone around in your profile.
Why did we do this?
For one reason, we thought it was boring to have a half-filled hubwheel eternally sitting by your name. Second, we are laying the groundwork for a future experiment.
We don’t want to make things competitive. But we want a bit more granularity when it comes to a measure of user activity and influence. FYI, the hubwheel turns in response to a number of things that you or other people do, not just sharing and comment votes.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
We've got one already :-) She's a joy.
Done. I really like that idea. In fact, the goal is to provide information to the user anyway. If people really want to know someone's influence, the number of followers will serve as pretty good evidence.
One criticism I have that has stopped me getting into this site more than my other social news haunts, is that since hashtags can be anything, a cool article doesn't allow me to find other cool articles via its hashtag as often, because it might be something too specific. I'm not sure if that makes sense, or how to address it really, but perhaps a suggested hashtag feature?
As the posting rate picks up, I have plans to implement lists of trending tags and, and also hot posts, so that it's a bit easier to get a glimpse of what is going on Hubski outside of your feed.
Specifically, there's a post about the history of the McRib, but since people are allowed to write anything they like as their tag, it's listed as #wheresthebeef. There are no other posts in #wheresthebeef, nor are there likely to ever be. So even though this is a cool story, it doesn't let me find more like it, because of the lack of restrictions on tags. It could be under #food or #fastfood or even #mcdonalds, but as a once off tag it has less utility. So perhaps if there was an algorithm to suggest tags based on the content of the article it might help.
Hey Niksko, the tagging function has changed and now if you read something that you think is inappropriately tagged, you can add a secondary tag to it. This should help with this. check it out
But it's... cooler. http://tinyurl.com/c3y8s7l ;)
Food would have more company: http://hubski.com/tag?id=food I'm going to think on this. Good suggestion.