How smart is Prismatic?

I love social news sites like Prismatic. Usually I get relevant stories to read through them. But one thing I always automatically assume is that the stuff on top is not the newest but the most relevant to me. I read the first two headlines in their notification mail and then delete the email.

Is that actually an accurate assumption?

parislemon:

joshuanguyen:

One chart can speak volumes about politics, history, technology, and the human race.

It comes around.

(Reblogged from parislemon)

Focused Email, Focused Product

Feature Shot Gun

Feature Creep is a sickness of an existing, maybe successful product.

Opposed to that I consider ‘Feature Shot Gun’ to be an approach to a new or renewed product initiative characterized by

  • lots of features
  • a lack of clarity concerning value of a single feature
  • no real focus, no core features
  • no priorities, everything is important
  • a declaration that the initiative can only be successful if all features are implemented

In my experience this approach is supposed to work like a shot gun. You hope for a hit by increasing the number of bullets. I am pretty sure most will consider this an anti-pattern.