As a recent daily user, prismatic is awesome.<p>The way they leverage twitter is pretty interesting, mixing in "endorsements" to articles from both people close to you, famous people, and random people, in a way that keeps it interesting.<p>There's also fairly heavy machine learning going on behind the scenes, in a way that is non intrusive. Congratulations to those guys.
The only thing about it that I really dislike is that there's no option to delete or cancel your account (a trend with startups). I don't fall to the silly excuse that it's in beta or that they'll have such options "soon". This should be there since day 1. Shows respect for the user/tester and sends the message that your information/data is yours to keep/remove whenever you want.<p>Keep in mind that this is not a criticism towards Prismatic (which is really cool and well done), I just used them as an example to a common startup practice.
The first 10 people to email hackernews@getprismatic.com with their twitter handle will get an immediate invite to our early access.<p>Edit: gone -- but if you sign up at getprismatic.com you should get an invite soon.
Prismatic is what I read in the morning when I'm waking up and drinking a cup of coffee. I think it has the potential to change the way we consume not just social news, but news in general.
I love prismatic - its completely replaced Google reader for me. I find that it consistently shows articles that are really relevant to me, from sources I've never even considered. Often, I'll find highly relevant things on prismatic a few hours before a friend emails me the same article that they found through some other source.
I suppose it's up to me to be the "Debbie Downer" on this one.<p>First off, I like the recommendations, and the learning algorithm seems decent. However the UI continues to give me nightmares. I setup a list similar to what I have in Zite or Flipboard. For some reason only Chrome will let me actually go to the list and scroll it. For everything else (IE, Firefox, Opera) I can see the list, I can click on the list, but I can't scroll the list.<p>While I like the recommendations, I would also like the ability to have more control over sources, and to control the refresh rate. Yes I "get" they think that isn't needed if they are doing this right. I just respectfully disagree.<p>Just my .02 worth. I wish the team well, and hope they have an Android App version of this eventually as I would love to have the pretty on my Sony Tablet S...
Signed up last time this popped up but didn't jump in (bad timing).. Just kicking the tiers, the suggestions are really hitting the right spot. Just a suggestion - I'd really like another button - read - with an action like the "dont like" button, so I cam just sit there clicking next next next without scrolling down (that said, the vim keys to jump between stories is awesome!!)
I use Prismatic daily. It does an amazing job of crawling the web and curating news articles that are aligned with my interest. Many of these articles I would normally not see and have no idea that they even exist. Prismatic is my primary method of news consumption now. There is a feeling of serendipitous discovery every time I use it, which keeps the delight factor high!
I actively use it for last 3-4 months and it's definitely my nr1 tool to receive news!!<p>give me a heads up on twitter if you need an invite @zappika ;)