Hunch blogger widget

If you look at the right sidebar on this blog you’ll see a new Hunch widget. It’s meant to be both fun and informative for the blogger and also the readers.

1. For the blogger, you can learn a lot of interesting things about your readership (for example, here are stats on cdixon.org readers). Soon, we’ll be adding more features for the blogger, such as inferred stats about your readers, derived by cross referencing their answers against our data set of 40M answers.

2. Blog readers get to learn about how they compare to other readers of the blog, and how readers of the blog compare to the larger population. They can also play what we call the “prediction game” where Hunch tries to guess how you’d answer new questions you haven’t answered. In our tests Hunch does a really good job. It’s meant to be fun and also, frankly, a way for us to show off the power of Hunch’s predictive abilities. If you want to try it, first answer 25 questions in the widget and then you’ll be be given the option to play the game or look at how you compare to other cdixon.org readers and Hunch users overall.

If you want to embed this widget on your own blog, go to http://www.hunch.com/blogger/ (you’ll need to have a Hunch account and be logged in).

Any and all feedback welcome!

http://icantbelieveable.blogspot.com/ Joyewonder

Wonderful! New Hunch stuff! Definitely going to be appearing on my blog soon.
http://thedreaminaction.com/ Ryan Graves

Chris, great call on building this. I'll definitely be using it…
http://www.podglo.com doke01

They (you?) predict my responses but don't do/show it until after I tell them my response. I could do that myself! If they could email it to me before I answered that would be cool. Now it looks like a parlor trick.

http://www.cdixon.org chris dixon

You can use the “peek” button to see what Hunch is going to predict
and verify we aren't cheating.

M.G.

Chris, The widget is excellent. I enjoyed going through the questions and then seeing the results, nice work! One piece of feedback, when I got to the end it asked if I wanted to sign in to associate my results with my account. I will only speak for myself, I was quite hesitant to do this–not that I do not trust Hunch, however I did not see a specific benefit to be gained by providing a significant amount of demographic information (or maybe it was there and I missed it). You might want to consider making the benefit of this association more salient.

http://twitter.com/cdixon chris dixon

Good point. The benefit of creating an account is you can get personalized recommendations in Hunch's thousands of topics. But we obviously need to articulate this better. Thx!

sfrancis

Very cool, Chris. I've been meaning to start some Hunch decision topics too
http://newfoundjoye.blogspot.com/ newfoundjoye

Thanks for sharing this. I added it to my blog already.
http://shanacarp.com/essays ShanaC

Do you have any plans to cross compare blogs. It's interesting, some of your Data is similar to Fred Wilson's Data. And no one knows why his data is coming out the way it is. Do you?

http://www.cdixon.org chris dixon

Yeah, that is one of a bunch of things we definitely want to do.

http://www.cdixon.org chris dixon

Yeah, that is one of a bunch of things we definitely want to do.