Today we are excited to introduce our Topical Browser, a new content discovery experience, powered by the collective curation efforts of the Paper.li community.
Each day, around the world, more than 13 million articles spanning more than 400,000 online newspapers are featured and contextually organized by our passionate Paper.li publishing community, to the benefit of millions.
With each new daily and weekly Edition published, Paper.li publishers help their readers to navigate the massive digital content world in which we live, while transforming the way information is organized and accessed for the future.
Now, for the first time, we are combining our publisher’s editorial skills with Paper.li's unique content analysis engine to provide a new transparency to content discovery: a curated, filtered, noiseless experience that we call the Paper.li Topical Browser.
Leveraging the collective intelligence of a nation of curators
The Paper.li Topical Browser opens the door for anyone to discover and explore content spanning more than 20,000 curated topics. Ranging from mainstream to niche, only community vetted content with a high correlation of topical relevance surfaces, making even long-tail content easy to discover -- think “poisonous dart frogs”, “knot theory” and “visual music”.
Most importantly though, it provides a great way for you to discover more of the outstanding Paper.li publishers who are truly passionate about these topics, and of whom we are so proud to have as a part of our community!
Alpha Launch
We are really pleased to roll out this initial phase of the topical browser today. For the time being, the service is in "alpha" and available only for the English language. From time to time you might stumble upon some imperfections or unexpected results. We are working to iron these out.
We look forward to hearing about your topical browsing experience and what kind of great content treasures the Paper.li community helps you discover.
So, get started and explore the topical Web today!
This is a great feature. Thanks for innovating.
ReplyDeleteHappy to hear it Stacey. Share your favorite finds with the community.
ReplyDeleteNice feature Kelly but I think it could do with a few improvements:
ReplyDelete1. In my humble opinion the bar in the bottom of the screen is too prominent
2. It would be nice to be able to click away the bar and to save your choice
3. I'd prefer the small tab to be default, the one that appears after you've hidden the original one, and the original one to appear when you want to read more
That's my five pennies worth
Best wishes
Ron -Your feedback is appreciated and noted.
ReplyDeleteThe topics displayed on the pop up pertain to the content focus of the paper, so they may change daily. You mention saving the choice - do you mean saving a daily snap shot?
Kelly, with saving the choice I mean that once you decide, as a visitor of a paper, to not see the bar in the bottom it would be nice if that choice would be saved for the next visit. Now every time you visit the paper you have to close the bar. I hope I made myself clear :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks and good luck with all the new options, paper.li rocks!!
Hi Ron,
ReplyDeleteNow that I read your explanation, I wonder how I could have missed the mark to begin with. Very clear and well understood on my side. We'll work on that. Thank you!
It is a nice new feature and Paper.li, I have worked in the Pricing Software industry for 10+ years and there was not a "on-stop-shop" for all things pricing related, so I set out to make one ;0). I publish "Pricing News Daily" and it has over 160 views with just 5 issues published. "Pricing" is one of the recommended tabs added for "my topical browser" it might get smarter if you add #pricing, #pricingnews, #pricingstrategy, and #dynamicpricing to the search terms (or however you are working the magic!) Love the work you are doing on this and keep us the good work.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Matt Balfour
Thanks very much Kelly,
ReplyDeleteI love all the new features so keep them coming :-)
Hi, Kelly. This is a great feature :) BTW, are you saying there are now 400,000 paper.li papers??? Wow!
ReplyDeletePLEASE! I can't find a link to contact directly Paper.li... I¡ve been trying to login to my account everyday for this last week and can't load up your login page. I've upgraded Chrome but no way.. Could somebody help me please??? Thank's
ReplyDeleteGigi -
ReplyDeleteWe have had a few other users reporting the same issue. Please follow the link below and send us the requested information. We are working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible for users. Thank you!
My blog
And here's the link :)
ReplyDeletehttp://support.paper.li/entries/20876166-problems-logging-in-paper-li
Hi Kelly,
ReplyDeleteI noticed the topical browser tab is now small and can be expanded to large. Is this meant to stay? If so thanks very much, I think it's better this way.
best wishes
Ron
Hi Ron,
ReplyDeleteYes, it looks like it will remain like that! We listened to the community and implemented what works best overall for everyone. Glad it is a thumbs up for you. Thanks for your feedback.
More feedback...
ReplyDeleteI think the topical browser idea is great -- but in just giving it a little test two "topics" I tried don't even come up:
1. buttercream
2. boomer
Just as a test I tried these two topics -- neither exists in the topical browser. Odd, because The Buttercream Bugle is a paper I manage --- and I know there is more than one Paper.li with the name: Boomer or Boomers included.
I think the topical browser should at a minimu cover topics that are included in paper's titles ;-}
I am also curious re: the quantifiers for the papers which are highlighted as the best of the best in the topical browser... I've visited some of those papers and while most are great some of the 'best' aren't managing their papers topically and/or are not even visited, liked or tweeted by that many people... what gives?
Also, how are the direct links to blogs identified? Is there a criteria (such as the most retweets, etc...) -- it's not clear how and who gets 'top-topified' and who/what doesn't.
Look forward to hearing more.
Thanks,
MJM