Subjot: A Topic-Based Twitter, Without The Noise

[rwolf]

Since every thread on HN about google+ has a top comment about how google+ should have this (self-tagging, able to follow user+topic in addition to being able to follow user), I'm glad someone has written something like it. playing with subjot will give me a feel for how this concept plays out in practice--well done!

[joshu]

IMO self-tagging fails in broadcast mechanisms, because people are massively incentivized to distribute things as widely as possible.

we're thinking about how to add categorization to jig, so i am thinking about this a bunch.

[Ade_Lack]

If you want to try Subjot you could start with HN on Subjot: http://subjot.com/all/hn OR tell us about your startup: http://subjot.com/all/startup and the feedback tag is getting lively too: http://subjot.com/all/feedback

[mdebenedittis]

I've been enjoying Subjot's the private beta for a few months now. A few of my friends are on as well. I'm very happy to not have to listen to them drone on about a couple of topics that usually dominate their twitter feeds.

[Ade_Lack]

Been on the Subjot BETA for a couple of months and have only been totally impressed. May have a few scaling issues around topic tags but from what I have seen so far no reason why this team couldn't tackle it. Great work!

[andredieb]

I tried to use it for a while but gave up when I couldn't find a simple way of finding my twitter follows that also have a Subjot account. Did anyone tried/succeeded doing this?

[ccarella]

This would be the url to use http://subjot.com/explore#friends

You can find it via Explore in the header and then People on the sidebar.

[xyzzyb]

Looks a lot like byteposts: a subject-oriented twitter/irc hybrid.