Why MeeHive Should Be On Your Radar
By: Nicky
Taken from Kosmix blog and originally posted June 30, 2008
In my last blog post, I detailed in a rather cryptic fashion the concept of a ‘Personalized News Dial Tone.’ I explained that in much the same way that your phone instantly connects you to the people in your life, Kosmix is working on a product that instantly connects you to all of your news interests that change around you every moment of the day.
Since it’s Monday morning and I have 2.5 cups of coffee (read: personality) running blissfully through my veins, now seems the perfect time to tell you a bit more about what we’ve been doing with this product - which we’ve named MeeHive.
Why MeeHive? Well, think of a Bee Hive, a place that is so full of frenzied activity that it literally buzzes, and then imagine that we offered you your very own hive where you could collect stories that interest you. That would make you buzz, wouldn’t it?
We debuted MeeHive at last month’s Under the Radar conference held at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA. Under the Radar is dedicated to showcasing the industry’s up-and-coming players – the startups who are developing some of the freshest and most creative products out there.
Sesh, our fearless CTO, presented MeeHive as part of the ‘Graduate Circle,’ a forum for established companies like Kosmix to discuss how they got to be where they are and how they are continuing to innovate.
During his well-received presentation, Sesh described how in a world of ‘pull’ models, where you search the web high and low to get the information you want delivered to you, MeeHive is a news ‘push’ model – delivering fresh information to you all the time so that you don’t have to go looking for it.
He noted that with MeeHive’s ability to leverage the Kosmix user base and deliver uber-relevant results, it is well-positioned for success. Of course, we know that getting MeeHive to where we want it is a marathon, not a sprint, so we’ll be spending the summer building the most robust product we can in preparation for a launch not too far down the road. In the meantime, sign up for our beta and we’ll keep you posted on developments.
December 9th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I’ve had a similar concept for quite a while, and I’m happy to see someone executing on this type of business. With your Kosmix tie-in and ability to search broadly and place things into context, you should be pretty formidable with this initiative. I think it’s great.
One of the things I love about old-fashioned newspapers is that I always learned about something new and interesting, some tidbit that I never would have otherwise had on my radar screen. I think if you can incorporate some of the surprise/delight along those lines, in addition to areas of user interest, you’ll have something really valuable. It’s the things we don’t know about but that are just around the corner, that make our daily lives interesting.
Chuck