Comments on: One Week Later: Hey! Nielsen Reflections

By: Return on Effort

Return on Effort — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:02:39 +0000

i think they are facing the problem because they dont know how to use the technology.

By: Myles

Myles — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:42:42 +0000

I think that Digg is actually a fairly misleading example because many of the problems Hey! Nielsen is dealing with exist on Digg…but are hidden to people who don’t venture beyond the front page or the popular areas. There’s all sorts of repetition, all sorts of stories that just float by, but they have a distinct way of deciding which opinions are popular.

With Hey! Nielsen, there is not yet a way for opinions to really rise above others except for the arbritrary “featured” section. And the competition element, what is supposed to set the site apart, is actually the cause of much of the animosity and “rating wars” taking place.

But I think a lot of this is short term reactionary behaviour, as opposed to a forecast for long-term usage. Give it a few weeks, and hopefully we’ll see a balance in the force.

Edit: Heh, I’d say that you’re a teensy bit pessimistic, Rich, at least in the ability for the current form to sort itself out. Which is really what I was referring to, I would never claim that anyone is writing the site off entirely.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:42:01 +0000

Oh shoot … I missed one part … no pessimism here; just positive criticism. Heck, I told them partly how to fix it!

All my best,
Rich

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:38:16 +0000

Good one Myles,

Let me touch on this…

“I think that the problems Hey! Nielsen is currently facing are due to the fundamental difference between how they imagined the system being used and how it is actually being used.”

… okay, I agree. But they would have to have their heads buried in the sand to not know how Digg works. I wish I could have helped them, when.