TL;DR - We've launched a new type of social search with http://trunk.ly, where you can search a group of people (experts if you like) that you follow for the information they share online.
That title is a call back to an article we posted here on HN just before Christmas inviting you to our beta http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014567 The HN community feedback helped push us to throw open the doors and make Trunk.ly live.
Over the last three months, Trunk.ly has continued to grow steadily, attracting new users and we've been thinking a lot about how people use the site and what we can do to significantly improve it.
So introducing the new http://trunk.ly - with improved social search.
Now the site not only has personal utility for you (by collecting links where ever and however you share them across the internet, then indexing them so you have a "personal google" of content you like), but you can now search the people and their links on Trunk.ly too.
Our observation was that one of the things that people do when they publicly share content, is express an interest or expertise. If you're a Python programmer, you probably share lots of Python links, and more importantly, you only share the links that you think are worthy of some attention. So why not enable a search that lets you tap that knowledge?
We did and it's now live - love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Would you use it? What else would be useful as a search experience and content discovery from people you follow?
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 13.8 ms ] threadThat title is a call back to an article we posted here on HN just before Christmas inviting you to our beta http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014567 The HN community feedback helped push us to throw open the doors and make Trunk.ly live.
Over the last three months, Trunk.ly has continued to grow steadily, attracting new users and we've been thinking a lot about how people use the site and what we can do to significantly improve it.
So introducing the new http://trunk.ly - with improved social search.
Now the site not only has personal utility for you (by collecting links where ever and however you share them across the internet, then indexing them so you have a "personal google" of content you like), but you can now search the people and their links on Trunk.ly too.
Our observation was that one of the things that people do when they publicly share content, is express an interest or expertise. If you're a Python programmer, you probably share lots of Python links, and more importantly, you only share the links that you think are worthy of some attention. So why not enable a search that lets you tap that knowledge?
We did and it's now live - love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Would you use it? What else would be useful as a search experience and content discovery from people you follow?
Thanks!