Our new release – an abundance of features awaits you!
We deployed our latest release, and it’s got a ton of good stuff. Coupled with yesterday’s announcement of our iPhone APP (thanks @TechFlash, for covering it!) we have a lot going on.
Here’s what’s in the release. A new home page, featuring our EvriFeed – a constantly updating stream of the latest about interesting topics in the EvriVerse. We use our unique approach to find interesting topics (grammatical subjects and objects in sentences being written on the web) and stream it to the home page. It’s always updating, so check back frequently to find something surprising.
The EvriFeed shows you the Topic in question, a link to the relevant article on the web, and the most recent Evri connections for this topic.
Also on the new home page we are showing more of the breadth and depth of our content in the new Browse box on the right-hand side. You can easily find topics in our major domain — Politics, Entertainment, Business and Sports – or go directly to our full browse experience, which we talked about recently.
Continuing with the Home page, we have made your collections — and other interesting ones — much easier to find. If you haven’t yet created and account and built some collections, you really should. This is the best way to track your outside interests in real-time on the web.
Our Profile pages have new stuff as well. First, we now show you any collections (yours or others) that this topic is part of. This is a great way to discover the power of collections. If you are on the page for Star Trek (the new movie) for example, you can see it’s in three collections, including this one that I created.
We also now provide a way for you to find our how any topic is related to anything you want to type in. Even if it’s not in the Dig Deeper section of the page, you can type in any search term that you want to connect to the current profile and see how they are related. In this case, I was on the Microsoft profile, and wanted to see how they were currently related to Yahoo. I entered Yahoo in the ‘filter by keyword’ box and get the results right there. Cool!
Last thing I’ll mention for now is that we have added interactive stock charts to all of our public company profiles, thanks to our friends at Wikinvest. This is a highly-interactive in-page application that gives more than just a share price. Coupled with the other information we have on the page our company profiles just got a lot more valuable. (Though GM may not feel that about their page today!)
I’ll do follow-up posts exploring some of these features in more detail. Please let us know what you think, and what you would like to see us work on next and what we need to fix. You can always email me (neil[at]evri.com). And don’t forget that you can find us on Twitter: @evri is the company account, and you can get to me @neilr.