What’s here for me?
So, you got here because I Tweeted about it or my mother passed you a link, now what? What else do you read? What might you like? Odds are you’ll scroll through a couple headlines on the main page and make your decision right then and there. You’ll leave or you’ll stay, it’s simple. But how do I convince you that I have content you may like? How do I even know what you like? I think Liveflows has figured that out (http://f1.liveflows.com/index).
Go take a look at what Louis Gray is doing on his blog (http://www.louisgray.com/live/) with the footer on the site. The new footer tool allows you to see what is popular on his site right now without out having to read the whole site. This is great because as new user to a site I don’t know what to read, this is an awesome tool for discovery.
“But Greg, I like Digg, Del.icio.us and I follow Scoble on Friendfeed, I don’t have time to check out every site to see what’s great.” This is where I would disagree with you, this won’t make discovery slower, I in fact think it will make for a much more tailored and personal web experience. I think this plug-in is more powerful than Digg or Friendfeed. In time, I think the value of Liveflows will grow as it dynamically builds out recommendations to networks based on preferences unique to each user. I would love to see them go to a model that it would sync with my Facebook and Twitter and work as a plugin the browser level. Imagine getting an instant referral from friends the moment you land on a site, it would be like automatically knowing the best bars in a new town without having to call everyone in your phonebook or ask in your Facebook status.
Right now Liveflows only works on sites that opt in, but I think there is a ton of potential here for a really fantastic browser based experience.
Editors Note: The image has zero to do with this idea, but it’s close to summer and what could possibly be better and more rewarding than swimming out to a raft, climbing up on it and proceeding to throw your younger bother off of it all day long? Not much. I love summer.
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