Today we're releasing a new feed - the outbrain serendipity feed. You can subscribe to it here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/outbrainSerendipity
The serendipity feed brings you posts that are starting to gain some steam within the outbrain community, but do not yet have enough rating data to be recommended with reasonable confidence.
What's this feed good for? A bunch of stuff:
- It's a great way to see newer posts as they start picking up positive ratings in our community.
- It's a great way to get content from a wider variety of sources. In your personalized recommendation feed we always serve those items with the highest personalized scores, even if they ALL happen to be from Seth's blog... On the serendipity feed we enforce more variety.
- It's a great way to help other outbrainers get highly relevant recommendations. The more ratings we have on specific posts, the more intelligent recommendations we can deliver. The serendipity feed helps us get those deeper clusters of ratings on specific items.
So go ahead and point your feed reader to the serendipity feed, and start rating those items to make your outbrain smarter!
(Thanks Svec for the idea!)
