LikeHack

Hi, likehackers!

Hilarious, funny and charming lolCats.

Who doesn’t know them?

Today it’s getting closer to football, everyone knows what a lolcat is. Though it takes much less than 90 minutes to find one of them popup in your Facebook feed, laugh or even cry at it for a moment and Like it in order to share with your friends. Admit it, we all have reposted, retweeted, pinned or clipped a lolcat at least once in our life, but we hardly ever tried to find the reasoning behind this phenomenon and understand why lolcats are so important. Well, LikeHack is here to help you deal with all that because this is what we do – saving the humankind from information overload.

Yeah! People talk about us! New article on Goaleurope.com 

The headline may appear a bit personal, and, well, it is. I come from Siberia and I can’t cheer enough a fellow female entrepreneur from my hometown, who is building a global startup and has just raised funding.

Now the hard facts.

LikeHack is a personalized news delivery service, and before you tell me that there are so many solutions on the market already, look at this one, because it is simple and makes sense.

St Petersburg-based LikeHack (available in English) has just raised $150,000 from Altair Capital, owned by the Vienna-based angel investor Igor Ryabenkiy. Ryabenkiy has previously invested in LinguaLeo (online English and other online courses) and Gfranq (the cool online photo filter service that I like) amongst others.

Here is why it is better than StumbleUpon, Flipboard / Utopic.me and others, according to Jane Smorodnikova, the founder and yes the fellow Siberian. LikeHack analyses the social media profile information of people who share similar links that you do, and feeds their shares into your newsfeed.

Smorodnikova says that the best links come from people who know what interests you, in real time (that is when you are still interested).

So it is not just your friends, who may be into babies, knitting and stamp collecting, but more importantly colleagues or even complete strangers who may work in your industry, be it chocolate making, fabric designing or even startups. By comparing your profiles and likes, LikeHacker suggests what would interest you. The service also analyses and delivers recommended content in real time, to meet your immediate needs in information, as long as you made them known in your status update, comment or a shared link.

In this case I might get my feeds as abracadabra in CEE languages but this is just what I might need as long as there is Google Translate. That’s blogging about Russia and Eastern Europe!

So far, the company was bootstrapped, as Smorodnikova, who runs the deliciously branded Freshle.com blog, as well as advisor blog for Skolkovo, has vacated Novosibirsk for St. Peterburg to concentrate on LikeHack. The CEO of the startup is Dmitry Yanin, who was involved in the social alarm clock startup TalkAClock (a competitor of Budist / Wakie), backed by the business angel Alexey Kistenev.  The CTO is Michael Kechinov, who runs a software development company, focusing on startups (he is also involved in the Russian startup conference 42Conf and Hackday).

In conclusion, Smorodnikova and I met at Le Web, where I also met another Siberian, the darling of Loic Le Meur Danil Kozyatnikov of Questli (who is now reinventing the dating business with a new startup called MeetCute). LeWeb this year? Oh yes.

Hey, LikeHackers! Please help us to improve LikeHack by telling us if you like it.

It's been a couple of days since your LikeHack signup, and we would really like to know more about your experience. How often do you use LikeHack? What are your thoughts on usability? Which features would you like to have?

Check out our online satisfaction survey, and help us better understand your needs. Don't worry; we only use this data for improving your user experience.

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Surfing the Web I have found a great slidedeck of Guillaume Decugis (CEO at Scoop.it). I'm absolutly agree with him. In the near future algorithms can not replace the human in issue of content selection.

Hey, Likehackers! We have recently released a full tour about the service. Tour briefly explains what for is LikeHack and describes the basic functionality of the service. So, you will be able to know how to use “To Like” and “My Likes”, full-text search of your personal storage for “Facebook-likes” and “tweets”. We also tell you how we select content according to topics of your interest. Please check out the full version of the tour here. We hope that it helps better understand what we do and how it can simplify and improve the daily life.

Hi there!

It’s me, Dmitry, back with some thoughts for you to chew on.

Bet you landed from one of your social feeds, right?

No doubt of that one, huh.

One-of-your-social-feeds… Hm. Feels natural. Feels like it’s been that way since the day one. Diversified and comfy: Twitter for sharing your expertise, Facebook for posting your drunk pics and a dozen of other ones for your food porn.

But is it as sexy as it used to be say one, two or three years ago?

There are lots of information around us and every day we receive even more and more. You just can’t imagine how many useless links and tweets are being just ignored by you daily. More than that – recently Twitter users started to leverage a new tag – TMI. It stands for Too Much Information and marks completely awful posts and tweets, which you would never want to read. So, 1,500 tweets with hashtag #tmi were generated within the past 24 hours.

People are taking advantage, in other words, of having easier access to news throughout the day – in their pocket, on their desks and in their laps.” While ready access to the technology is a benefit, the technology itself is not making it any easier for you to locate the exact news stories that are of interest to you. The vastness of the internet is far greater than any traditional newspaper.

Personalized news provided by Likehack culls just the news stories you want to see so they are available at a mere click with no tedious searching. If you are not interested in any news or game scores for any baseball team but the Chicago Red Sox, Likehack will filter out all baseball stories that do not address the Red Sox. If sports altogether is no concern to you but you work in the financial sector, Likehack will make certain that all cutting edge financial news is just a click away.

How does this all work? Simple. Likehack has real people working behind the scenes to analyze your searching habits. Rest assured that all news will be hand selected for you based on what you like. Plus, you may sign up with Facebook or twitter. It simply could not be any easier than that.

Social networking is growing like wildfire today. Dealing with multiple social online accounts can easily become a chore that is difficult to maintain. For instance, I have my Facebook account, LinkedIn account, MySpace account, EHarmony, Twitter, so on and so on. I just can’t keep up with all of them every day. I can’t afford to miss certain posts either.

Why faster information handling?

Tomorrow key skill for being successful is an ability to work with information fast. This phrase implies nothing but the significance of handling information in a way that could benefit your business in a time friendly manner. Effective and efficient information handling eventually leads towards accurate decision making. It is the duty of the managers to carefully monitor the flow of information within the organization and find every possibility to reduce the burden of irrelevant data that actually makes information handling a complex and time consuming thing. Information is a power, but you can’t exercise it without its proper handling because managing the flow is the key for success.

Managers have to gather the data first. Then they have to scan it in order to make analysis. Eventually they have to make correct decision based upon this analysis that must ensure the profitability of the company. Hence in such a lengthy and tiring process, being over loaded by extraneous information can create nothing else but confusion and anxiety, along with wastage of time.

What can be done?

Here are some tips that can help you to make the most of the information in shortest possible time. Firstly, as a successful manager, you must determine the sources through which information is gathered in your system. Reduce your information resources and tend to rely on some highly authentic and frequently updated ones. Electronic media, print media, social networking websites, emails etc are some of the most utilized sources, but you have to filter them otherwise they will cause you to get lost in the sea of information.

As far as emails are concerned, you can apply email filtering for your emails. This will help you to control your information flow through email by various tools like email search functioning, disabling unnecessary email notifications, managing subscription and un subscription etc. Similarly, you can also handle the information entering your organization through other means by making them free of obsolete data.

Allocate how much time to be consumed for each source. This is called data calendaring. If you are utilizing social networking platforms that you can take the help of scheduling applications that can manage your accounts over there. Note down the information in points or even in graphical form. The pictorial form of data like graphs, presentations, images, symbols etc are easier to understand and analyze in short period of time.

We’ve compared all over the world and who was rated by LikeHack users. Here they are:

So, now you can push To Like button inside LikeHack and get some interesting links from people who like the same things.

It’s very curious functionality, you will be surprised by coll things it will suggest you to read. It includes all cool links about your topics of interesting you’ve missed and all cool links you may like.

You don’t need to tune it, you don’t need to describe what you need, we know it from your likes and tweets!