{"id":2189,"date":"2012-03-01T17:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2012-03-01T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T17:04:39","slug":"a-whirlwind-look-at-bottlenose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/a-whirlwind-look-at-bottlenose\/","title":{"rendered":"A whirlwind look at Bottlenose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcel<\/a> asked:
\n>http:\/\/bottlenose.com\/<\/a>
\n>anyone with experiences and opinions about it?<\/p>\n

Definitely worth trying–it focuses on your network in order to pull more interesting stuff to the fore. I put it in my bookmar bar when I first encountered it — it was briefly useful (slowed down the stream, found things that my network had heavily retweeted, making interesting suggestions of the few things I should read).<\/p>\n

Its classification is ok — the genre classification seems decent (news\/videos\/pictures) — the message type classification (Question\/Opinion\/Notification\/Check-In\/How-To\/etc) seems less exact, but may still be useful.<\/p>\n

It kept suggesting the same things so I stopped checking it regularly — but I just checked it and am intrigued since they’ve added some features. In particular, they seem to be pulling out keywords (you can visualize one\/all of people, topics, hashtags, message types–see screenshot). That might be especially interesting when doing exploratory searches.<\/p>\n

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There’s also a lot of customization possible — you can make your own rules for what to put in streams, and they have a wizard (screenshot below):
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\nIf there were a marketplace for sharing rules, that might be good — I’m not likely to spend time on customizing my own, so I’m just relying on the defaults (‘suggested for you’ and ‘popular’).<\/p>\n

I’d be cautious of posting from Bottlenose without first checking the documentation — they accept posts of any length, but may also modify them (add hashtags, say).<\/p>\n

I suppose for some people, the ability to pull in from multiple networks (for now Twitter & Facebook) could be useful, though there are lots of tools that do that.<\/p>\n

I’d be curious to hear what other people think–have you found uses for Bottlenose?<\/p>\n

-Jodi
\nPS-They seem to be going by klout<\/a> score for invites for now; if you can’t get in that way, give me a shout (I’ve 10 invites if you want one).
\n—-
\nI’m taking a listserv post as the source of a blog post again<\/a>; channeling jrochkind<\/a> I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcel asked: >http:\/\/bottlenose.com\/ >anyone with experiences and opinions about it? Definitely worth trying–it focuses on your network in order to pull more interesting stuff to the fore. I put it in my bookmar bar when I first encountered it — it was briefly useful (slowed down the stream, found things that my network had heavily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,85,200],"tags":[507,508,506,509,164],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argumentative-discussions","category-information-ecosystem","category-social-web","tag-bottlenose","tag-filtering","tag-klout","tag-social-media-analysis","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}