2010: Digital Intuition Rises to the Top - A Year of Highlights

2010 has been an incredible year for us at my6sense, and our many users, who help us work to build the most intelligent products for finding the best out of your fast-growing and fast-moving social and news streams. With the year coming to a close, we thought we would start a new tradition here at my6sense headquarters - highlighting our top 6 successes of the year. We are all about the 6th sense, so buzzing in our digital intuition this year were some major milestones.

1) Intelligent personalization is recognized as the next wave of the Web.

As our new VP of Marketing, Louis Gray, wrote in November, the Web is evolving, from one first focused on information discovery to a social Web, and now, one that is becoming uniquely personal. In a world where we are bombarded with new pieces of content from news sources and our friends, we need to find smart tools to help us find the very best. GigaOM referred to the emergence of the hyper-personalized Web, while Garry Tan, Posterous CEO, said that content should be experienced by relevance and importance and interestingness, not chronologically.

What was once a crazy vision a few years ago about an intelligent future is now becoming reality - and my6sense is not the only one talking about it. Biz Stone, cofounder of Twitter said "Our challenge is relevance", while Google's Marissa Mayer outlined "contextual discovery" at LeWeb in Paris this month. The future is personal, and my6sense is delivering that intelligence.

2) Recognition from the tech press as the leader in personalized stream ranking.

TheNextWeb named my6sense one of the 10 best social mobile apps of 2010, and said its results "will amaze you". CNN said my6sense suggested the future. GigaOM called my6sense an intelligent disruptor to help manage the data deluge, and Robert Scoble said my6sense was "kicking Facebook’s ass on info filtering."

This is part of why ReadWriteWeb named my6sense one of the top 10 RSS and syndication technologies of 2010.

3) The launch of our Android application to many new my6sense users.

Our shiny green my6sense logo is a perfect fit for the shiny green Android mascot. We brought my6sense to Android in September and rapidly saw our user base spike. Bringing support for Google Reader, Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz, the app has become very well liked from the community. Android Guys said: "My new favorite Twitter app is my6sense. It's also my new favorite Facebook app. And my new favorite Google Reader app, and my new favorite Google Buzz app."

TheNextWeb called it their favorite news reader, while Android-Apps.com called it sensational. Find it on the Android market here.

4) The introduction of my6sense's Attention API

We can't keep this digital intuition all to ourselves now, can we? At DEMO Spring this year, we introduced our Attention API, making digital intuition available to Web sites and clients looking to bring personalization and intelligence to their products. Now anyone can bring hyperpersonalized streams to their users! Watch for some great announcements in 2011 about how this is being used.

5) The launch of new my6sense powered apps from Ecademy and Cellcom

New social communities and news sites want my6sense personalization. First to step up were the social business network Ecademy and Israeli telecom Cellcom, both of whom can now offer personalized streams to their users.

6) Fantastic feedback from our many my6sense users

The key to my6sense is that the application learns from you. The same is true from our engineering team. We are always happy to get feedback from our users who offer new ideas and great feedback to help build the next generations of our product as we take on new challenges, new partners, new streams, new apps and new screens. If you like my6sense, tell the world in a tweet or post to Facebook or Google Buzz. Write a blog post. Tell us what you love and what you want to improve so we can get you the best stuff always.

Thank you for making 2010 such an incredible year!