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Lumi – A new way to find things that interest you

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It's an interesting idea, but you've pushed the privacy vs convenience line too far for me. No way I'm going to give a 3rd party app access to my browser history.

You will get much better feedback if you can show it off without requiring registration.

Would be nice to have a tour to give your potential users an idea about what it actually is before requiring a signup.

"[sign up with twitter] or sign up with email". I choose twitter, authorize, then it drops me to creating an account with email.

Nice, I created an account with my email, then it asks me to install a browser plugin, which I don't want to do at this time. It says it "works best when you add the extension to your browser" but gives me no option to skip. I don't feel comfortable installing a plugin without getting to know the service a bit better, so I guess I will pass for now.

FYI: after creating an account they will ask you to install a browser plugin - that's how it works.

and that's why I abandoned it immediately.

It is a bit much to upload your browsing history and install a plugin. I just went through all of that and gave the service a try. So far I've found at least a handful of articles that I enjoyed reading that I may not have found otherwise.

I suppose it's worth it if they're not doing anything nasty with my data. I'd like to think that the Last.fm guy isn't up to any dirty tricks with Lumi... if you're skeptical about privacy concerns, this may not be for you, but I'm enjoying it so far. Also, I'm a former web news editor and still have a serious jones for news, so this was a perfect fit for me.

Lame. Asks for twitter account AND to install a chrome extension? And it doesn't let you continue unless you do that? And it has some 1990s style polling mechanism /install?retry=1 ?? Beh.

When you are on the browser, you can do a lot more with that context. Try http://pugmarks.me - done by ex-Google News engineers.

It gives you related news when you visit a LinkedIn profile, related articles for anything - works especially well for long shelf life content. Next, your New Tab is converted into a mirror of your recent interests, where experts on the topic you are reading are shown.

That looked interesting, but I don't have a Twitter account. Oh well, another service that doesn't serve most of the Internet. =/

You can signup with an email address too.

I decided to try it out. That Mac OS installation video is wonderfully clever.

I was weary of giving Lumi access to my browsing history, but then I remembered how many companies already have access to it.

It's still not done processing my browsing history, so I have no idea if it works.

I think you mean wary, not weary (unless you're fatigued from giving access to your browsing history)

Really slick design. I'm guessing most regular folks won't think that hard about sharing their browsing history; if you expect privacy on the internet, you're being silly. And if you put a big juicy button on a pretty page, most folks will click it.

A friend just launched Lumi, "A new and easy way to find things that interest you", and thought it would be nice to send some HN traffic/ feedback. Any and all ideas welcome!

It should be noted that said friend is a founder of Last.fm.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/11/last-fm-founders-throw-the-...

If it's anything like Last.fm, it should be really good at recommending super popular sites that the user already knows about and does not use.

This is an interesting idea, but (as others mentioned) I'd like to know a little bit more about what this site does before I sign up. Just need a little more detail than "find things that interest you."

It uploads and analyses your browser history, and attempts to generate a feed based on the recurring themes therein.

I installed it, but I didn't like it to just upload my whole browsing history.

But it's well designed, looks pretty and so far works as advertised.

Thanks for that — I'm sure the intention of the summary was to keep it simple and to speak to less-technical users. But it'd be nice if there was a slightly more technical description (like yours) available too.

uploading your browser history.. Fuck

This is not fair!! You must ask for permission if I want to share my browsing history or not! WTF!

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