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pressflip:

We’re proud to announce the launch of pressflip, a new persistent search service that focuses on a simple question: what are you interested in? Pressflip works around the clock to find you interesting stuff, so you’ll always have something to read.

Come give it a try at pressflip.com.

-The pressflip team
Kyle Shank
Matt Kent
Ted Dziuba

Now at 11

That upgrade went surprisingly smooth.  All systems are up.

Turn it to 11

Today we will be turning our architecture to 11.  We will experience some downtime as we move everything over to new servers.

Up

The new backend is in place along with some modifications to the frontend.  There will be some big changes a few weeks from now but until then we will be ensuring the new architecture is stable and tweaking it till its just right.

The biggest change in the new version is the process of creating an interest on the system.  The how-to:

1. Enter a few descriptive words in the search-like box at the top and hit “Go”
2. Inspect the results and see if they meet your expectations
3. Click the “Save” button above the results
4. Your interest will then be instantly created (no more waiting), placed into the sidebar and inserted in our pipeline for classification of new results
   

Once the interest is created you can click or reject the results to start providing feedback for the machine learning to train on.

That’s it for now but there is much more coming.

Update

We are still waiting on some things to finish before putting the site back up.  Please bear with us beta users and we’ll be back in action later Saturday.

Upgrade

We will be going down shortly for a massive backend upgrade this afternoon.  This will probably take a few hours due to the amount of data conversion we need to do.

Expect a post when we’re done outlining whats new and noteworthy.

Change

There will be some major modifications to the system architecture in the next week.  I’ll explain more once things are in production.