Hello folks,
Today, I'd like to tell you about one of latest features of NoiseRiver that has been released since my last update.
Last Monday, Robert Scoble started an intersting discussion about how comments clusters maybe confusing and redundant sometimes on FriendFeed. For example, we start a discussion about the latest Louis Gray's blob post, because we saw that URL shared on Google Reader by someone, and then someone else shares the same thing on del.icio.us, and so on... we may end up with dozens of comments clusters on the same subject. This is "comments fragmentation" inside FriendFeed itself.
What would be intersting is the ability to gather all the comments clusters about the same subject, group them in one place and see how people react, and have a better opinion, be more informed etc.
This, in fact, is the mission of the "watch feature" of NoiseRiver! You want to follow discussion on a subject? Click on the "eye icon" of the entry to watch it, and whenever you meet or another NoiseRiver's user meets an entry about the same thing, the entries get grouped and you may see similar entries (and comment clusters) in one place just by clicking a link (Show Similar).
The feature was coded in about 4 hours, it's still experimental, but from my own tests it works just fine and it really helps me group comments clusters easily!
