Brainstorm

Improvements to maemo.org/news

Posted on 2009-08-02 02:25 UTC by Sanjeev Visvanatha. Status: Under consideration, Categories: User Experience, maemo.org.

Reference Discussion at t.m.o: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30395

The idea was to have a Maemo Magazine - a periodical covering Maemo content such as:

  • MAEMO 5, MAEMO 4, Mer, How to, News, Interviews, Development, Deep Focus, Tips & Tricks, Devices, Announcements and mail of readers, Etc ...

It is a great idea, however, qgil expressed some real world issues with online magazines, and instead suggested that improvements be made to the news section of maemo.org (i.e. maemo.org/news)

This Idea hopes to encapsulate the suggestions for improvements to the news features of this site.

Many of the topics listed above are already covered within maemo.org and talk.maemo.org by:

  • blog posts (community, app developers, Nokia/Maemo types)
  • wiki entries (e.g. Mer latest releases, Major event descriptions/registrations, how-to's)
  • talk.maemo.org discussion threads (e.g. how-to's, tips&tricks)
  • maemo.org Announcements (e.g. Official Nokia/Maemo public releases)
  • and others

There may be a better way to present the existing interest areas, and also provide new methods of news (e.g microblogging).

 

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Solution #1: User-Customizable maemo.org/news page

Posted on 2009-08-02 02:36 UTC by Sanjeev Visvanatha.

Users could get sampling of news that they are interested in if maemo.org/news provided a customizable page (Dashboard):

For instance, one could setup a custom news page that gave them the following:

  • Recent microblogs
  • Recent posts on t.m.o that match either keyword or subforum that you are interested in
  • Developer blog articles
  • Garage updates or news

Another user may want:

  • Recently added Tips&tricks from t.m.o and the maemo.org wiki
  • News from major Maemo events
  • Mer related t.m.o discussions and IRC discussions

All of this information and more are currently available, but getting it into a format that is searchable, or selectable (read: tags, or some AI may have to be used to identify information types) may be a large task.

The best analogy is something like an iGoogle page.

 

 

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Solution #2: Use Attention Profiling to lift personalized interesting items

Posted on 2009-11-03 19:15 UTC by Henri Bergius.

Maemo News has a hidden feature that enables it to utilize Attention Profiling data to lift interesting items for the user. Attention profiling learns from items user has favourited (and buried), and from user's delicious tags, and compares tags from those to tags in new blog entries to see how well they fit the user's interests. This feature could be enabled and improved.

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