Who needs OneRiot?
It’s great that Sites like OneRiot who just launched their real-time search and officially exited beta can orgnanise real time Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Digg, but who needs that?
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A quick look on OneRiot and it’s like looking at OK!Magazine combined with Google news and tech crunch: Canadian beavers, Ipad, Oil spill, Will Smith’s new video, Pelin talks about who she likes, Girls Gone Wild and smoking mamas keep their babies up… Yikes!
So ok, the homepage OneRiot has chosen to go with is not very useful, but how do they fair in categories or vertical topics? Like travel? Things are suddently starting to get VERY interesting indeed!
Suddenly this makes so much more sense! An article on which airlines serve the best wine, Worlds strangest theme parks, best fashion designer hotels around the world, travel advice.. All very relevant and highly ranked articles that I’m interested in…
So far so good, but is OneRiot offering anything new? How do they compare against Digg, Stumble upon, or even Google Reader Play when it comes to exploring new trends?
Well Google Reader Play actually doesn’t quite cut it against OneRiot when compared as a special interest resource, because it’s random, Digg on the other hand manages to source even more interestingt travel stories than OneRiot; which quite frankly is somewhate dissapointing for OneRiot.
Stumble Upon has another unique approach, as it’s more social and depends on people’s “likes” to suggest new sites, it’s a much more personalised way of getting recommendations and often delivers great new sites with little effort across a large variety of categories. Meaning you don’t have to browse for popular “travel” posts; Stumble upon knows what you’ve liked and will find sites that are similar and suggest them to ya.
I wonder what the potential is in mashing up data from places like Digg and Twitter and social media? If the web – aka Google and Facebook is moving towards a future of personalised search and social browsing, what could be the future of mashing up impersonal data from other aggregators?
Please share your thoughts in comments if you would like to add to my thoughts!
PS: OneRiot offer a very detailed insight article on how their Trending Topics Engine works – worth a read
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May 8th, 2010 at 9:27 am
hi there! I’m the president of OneRiot – thanks for digging in to our stuff and writing the blog.
Funnily enough, the first start up i did was a travel site in the UK called TheFirstResort.com (now owned by Tui) so travel is close to my heart. You are correct that our home page today looks at “the pulse of the web” – the headlines for all. But in the coming weeks we’ll be releasing vertical views – news, sports, tech, food, etc. Travel is not on that list, but probably should be…
In the meantime, have you checked out RiotFeeds.com It’s a fun side project of ours that curates the best of the buzziest info for specific topics, and feeds that into twitter. You might enjoy some of these more specfic slices of hot content.
thanks again for the post… you’ve given me some stuff to think about…
tobias [at] oneriot [dot] com
May 9th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Hi Tobias
RiotFeeds.com looks quite interesting. BTW You have a big following on Twitter for your riotFeeds! It’be interested to find out how you succeeded!
Thanks for responding to the post!