Category Archive: cassius

2 Comments
source: corporategeek.info

The Three Pillars of Social Reader Relevancy (I)

While big name players attempt to tackle the issue simply by snapping on extra features (Google Mobile Voice Search, Google Instant Preview for Mobile.etc.), the underlying problems remain resolved as its ranking algorithm is the same as its desktop counterpart. Flipboard is so great because, in my opinion, it has found and defined the new three pillars of relevancy for mobile content consumption and they are freshness, social, and readability* – and they work wonderfully.

0 Comments
page 1 - row 1 is article, row 2 contains 3 columns of articles page 2 - column 1 is article, column 2 contains 2 rows of articles page 3 - 1 column, 1 article page 4 - 2 rows of articles

Knitting a page

References on how to layout news story articles is plentiful, yet the most useful I came across was a paper published in 1977 titled “Computer Assisted Layout of Newspapers” by the MIT.

10 Comments

Cassius is on github

Finally got round to putting together a decent enough client of Cassius on Github!

4 Comments
cassius5

Replicating Flipboard Part IV – Prelude

What you see here is a cover page using a random image from Instagram transitioning into the first articles page showing stories from my Twitter feed. The layout was generated dynamically from a custom template defined in json.

6 Comments
Likely processing workflow for Facebook feeds

Replicating Flipboard Part III – How Flipboard lays out content

Shifting the focus back to the iPad app, let’s take a look at how Flipboard processes and lays out Facebook and Twitter feeds.

3 Comments
Random sites from Delicious, with their social strength scores extracted and normaled

Replicating Flipboard Part II – Social Signals

The adoption of a brand new ranking paradigm – social strength, was the single most ground-breaking thinking that was in Flipboard’s design, not unlike how Google invented PageRank and changed the game on search…

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 160 other followers