I expected this product to allow me to create a demo of a product (place a tool tip here, after clicking "continue" load tool tip #2 over here, etc.).

Currently it is nothing more than a feedback button placed on top of the page. Make this more useful.

Everything posted on Hacker News has the same and equal ability to be picked up from /newest. If the content you are posting is interesting it will naturally hit the front page and will not need artificial votes from friends.

Please make more lessons (html, css, javascript, node, php...). I would pay.

HN: What else would you improve on Google+?

Integration with Tumblr.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. We just transitioned from Billmonk to Splitterbug. God. Damn. It

Yeah, it sucks :( If there's anything we can do to help transfer your data back, please let us know.

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Facebook is not partnering with Spotify in any way.

- This "icon" on the left of the homepage is simply a bookmark, a feature that any application on Facebook can choose to use.

- Facebook is an open platform and has yet to choose a winner among third parties for anything, and when they do they buy them and rebuild the product in house.

- Spotify does not work in the United States.

- Spotify simply has deep Facebook integrations, tech writers are either completely misunderstanding the information they stumbled upon OR they are blatantly turning this into a bigger story in order to get page views and attention.

The summary for those in a hurry

"Ultimately the Personalized Newspaper must instantly deliver a meaningfully personalized experience upon sign up and continue to evolve with the user’s interests with no manual input required from the user - behavioral/interest data must be passively collected from multiple sources not just limited to user interactions with the newspaper. The consumption and discovery process includes data from friends, trusted topic curators, the general reaction of the entire audience, and most importantly a small amount of content that falls outside of these filters - allowing the user to discover new content and topics they may not have known about."

Could be. A personalized "newspaper" may not end up being that much better than what you already have.

On the other hand I think that personalization as a concept can be applied to pretty much anything and if done right will improve the experience. So a lot of the points in this post can be applied elsewhere.

I don't know. Personalization was all the buzz about 8 years ago, but there have been very few (no?) success stories. Not to say someone might not get it right. But perhaps they won't.

I'd rather bet on social than on personalized these days, as a concept that can be widely applied.

Social and Personalization go hand in hand - I don't see them as alternative options.

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