Friday, 7 March 2008

New Featurette: Explore Bar

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Here is a little new feature that was just added earlier today (no, uh, yesterday already). I can't think of a good name for this, so for now I'm calling it "explore bar". Let's just look at the screenshot first.
(click to enlarge)

When you click on a bookmark tag, whether yours or somebody else's, you will see this gray box with several (3 currently) options that let you explore other areas of Simpy using that tag you just clicked on. Concretely, you can:

  1. Simply look at everyone's bookmarks using the current tag
  2. See the list of people who, based on the analysis of their bookmarks, look like they might know a thing or two about the current tag. We assume they are experts on the tag/topic, of course.
  3. See the list of Groups that have something to do with the current tag you used
This is not limited to tags. When you perform any kind of a bookmark search, the same options will pop-up. The idea is to let people get to know other parts of Simpy, easily expand their search to everyone's bookmarks, quickly see what other users they may want to look at, perhaps put them on their Watchlist or invite them to a Group, etc.

I circled 2 "experts" in the above example. The tag I was looking at was "subway". Simpy showed me several "subway experts". I don't know all those people, but I do know the two that I circled. I actually do know those two people in real life, they are good friends, and I happen to know they do know about subways (in New York). Thus, this is a good example of this little new feature actually providing something accurate and useful.

Any feedback? Thoughts? Room for improvement?

Posted by otis at 1:00 AM in News & Announcements

Comments on this entry:

Left by pieggi at Mon, 10 Mar 12:33 AM

the flickr image is as big as the one on the blog, hence I can't zoom into and see it.

Left by kome at Mon, 10 Mar 5:27 PM

i don't find it very useful; if your tang aren't in english i quite useless; can be disabled?

Left by kome at Mon, 10 Mar 5:27 PM

if your tag aren't in english it's quite useless*

Left by Otis Gospodnetic at Mon, 10 Mar 11:48 PM

pieggi:
Once you click on the image, you should see the option (above the image, on flickr) to see the image in various sizes.

kome:
How so? Could you explain or provide an example? Here is an example that uses Chinese characters:
http://www.simpy.com/user/realtime24/tag/%22%E5%8B%95%E7%94%BB%22
(the other tags are in Japanese, but this example happens to use the Chinese characters present in Japanese)

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