Mixpanel: They like goats, what about you?

There’s only one main component to this site that the site begs from you as soon as you sign up: “So…we like goats, what about you?” Mixpanel quickly asks you your interests and forms an ever-changing tag cloud to quickly find content suited to you.

The most important and largely unnoticed feature with mixpanel is that it is a semantic news search engine. As words change and people take different meaning to things, mixpanel will recognize that. As time goes on, it also will learn what words mean in relation to each other. So for example, if you search for “Programming”, it has the potential of knowing that Programming also encompasses: PHP, Python, C++, C#, Java, etc.

Mixpanel also contains several other features including meeting people with similar interests, categorization, the ability to favorite articles you like, and the highly intuitive feature “Sense.” Sense offers you the ability to let mixpanel decide what you like as you mark content that interests you.

There are a lot of features to explore on mixpanel. But why even bother it looks like digg right? Actually, mixpanel was created to correct a major flaw in social networking sites like digg, reddit, etc. It aims to be personal and not necessarily a huge popularity contest. We found that many sites feature content completely unrelated to the user, mixpanel is trying to correct this by de-emphasizing search, aggregating content, and stopping users from having to surf.

[Via digitalwarfare]

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