Relevancy for the average user

Posted by on 13 April 2011 18:11 Leave a comment (9) Go to comments

Holden Page wrote a post earlier today about whether relevance services like my6sense are, well, even relevant to the average user.

While I cannot put myself in the shoes of an average user, I have to imagine that keeping up with information that the average user puts out daily, and consumes, could be quite easily managed without third party tools.

Holden follows 400 people on Twitter and has 343 friends on Facebook. For him, relevancy products are essential if he is to make sense of all the information coming in.

I have about half the people that Holden has–I follow 200 people on Twitter and have 166 friends on Facebook. For me, relevancy isn’t a problem at all. Even in my Google Reader, which has some 100 feeds, isn’t easy enough to manage as a stream without any relevancy services.

For anyone who follows fewer people than I do or reads fewer blogs, I don’t see the value of using a third-party app or service to aid in stream consumption. I don’t see the value for me (yet).

What are your thoughts? Have you used my6sense or XYDO?

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  • http://www.layeredbyte.com/ Holden Page

    My qus

  • http://globalconstant.scnay.com/ Steve Nay

    I like that idea. I like Google Reader (on my computer) better than the my6sense app on my iPod Touch. If my6sense were integrated with Google Reader, I would totally use it.

  • http://www.layeredbyte.com/ Holden Page

    Do you use the My6Sense for Chrome extension?

  • http://globalconstant.scnay.com/ Steve Nay

    No, because I don’t use Twitter.com. I use the TweetDeck Chrome extension.

  • http://www.layeredbyte.com/ Holden Page

    Ahh. That would pose a problem. Tweetdeck doesn’t allow for app extensions
    like Seesmic does with their client do they? I don’t really ever use clients

  • http://globalconstant.scnay.com/ Steve Nay

    No. TweetDeck is really just an application, not a platform like Seesmic.

    I started using TweetDeck about the same time I joined Twitter. I’ve tried other clients since then but have never found anything that I liked as much. Force of habit, I suppose.

  • http://www.layeredbyte.com/ Holden Page

    I suppose that is also yet another barrier that relevancy products would have to overcome, at least with Twitter. Especially because most of Twitter’s activity happens through these third party clients.

  • http://globalconstant.scnay.com/ Steve Nay

    That’s another advantage of using the web itself as a platform. I know TweetDeck is working on a web client: https://www.tweetdeck.com/api/webbeta/ If the application is based on HTML and JavaScript, it’s really easy for technologies like Kynetx to go in and mash it up.

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