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We have recently released a new Tutorial in order to help our new users.
Best feedback we could get is from our long time Spotback addicts.
Is there any function you think we should add to our new Tutorial?
Your feedbacks will much appreciated @ feedback{at}Spotback.com.
Thank you on behalf of the Spotback team.
Our goal has always been personalizing the web and helping each user get his own personalized web experience.
Our long time mission has been recently supported by the 2006 ChoiceStream Personalization Survey.
The survey provides insight into consumers’ interest in personalization.
Some of the 2006 survey findings are:
79% of consumers are interested in receiving personalized content.
75% of consumers believe that personalization would improve their social networking experience by introducing them to other members with similar interests and preferences.
We believe this is the first indication the web’s new frontier in personalizing users' content in order to maximize their personal web experience.
Chris Kasten wrote about "Spotback — An Interesting Approach to Personal News"
In his Solo-Technology blog.
“Have you played with Spotback yet? After seeing a handful of references to it over the last few days I started checking it out over the weekend to see what all the shouting is about.
Short version: It is really quite cool! “
Thank you Chris, we believe it takes one to know one.
Jason Clarke just wrote about “SpotBack - a customizable news aggregation site” in his downloadsquad blog .
“Right off the bat I was impressed with the pleasant and easy to read user interface. It's not overdone, just attractive and approachable. Clicking a headline opens the article in a new browser window or tab. Rating stories is achieved through the use of an interactive slider; slide it to the left to rate a story negatively, or to the right to give it a positive rating. Interestingly, if you give an article a positive rating, SpotBack will immediately display a related article immediately below the one you just rated, giving you the opportunity to get more information about a subject you've shown an interest in. Slick”.
We are extremely happy Jason found our new version pleasant and slick.
Trying to implement some new personalizing features led us to a new release.
We hope this release could help you navigate more easily through out the site.
In order to help you get each feature in the simplest way possible we have changed landing page into a new category check box tool bar, opened the Tag Tracker option for all categories and upgraded site’s options best way we could.
Spotback has been through a face lift in order to maximize your experience.
In order to know whether we succeed in our mission or not we would love to hear your feed back.
What are you interested in? Do you have a new feature you believe Spotback should offer its community?
Please write Spotback Support [feedback at spotback.com]. We are waiting for your thoughts.
James Kendrick from jkOnTheRun.com posted a story titled: "Move over Techmeme, here comes Spotback".
From the post:
"...I recently found the Spotback site ... and my experience so far says they are succeeding. Spotback takes news from a lot of sources, culls out the ones that you’ve indicated you are most interested in, and presents them in a nice newspaper-like format consisting of excerpts of the stories. If you see one you like just click the headline and it opens another browser window with the original news article for your reading pleasure. One of the coolest features of Spotback is the rating system. Each article has a rating slider that the logic behind Spotback uses to determine what you like to read. Over time I am finding it to get uncannily accurate and I enjoy visiting the site daily."
To read James Kendrick's full post, visit jkOnTheRun.com