Personalize your view of the stream

It’s been a little quiet on our blog... We’ve been bogged down working on new features and functionality. Today you can see the first results on trends.ellerdale.com

You can now reorder the message stream based on relevance. Browse or search to a topic page and you’ll see a chronological stream of messages. We added a pull-down menu at the top-right of the stream to let you choose a stream of "live messages" (chronological order) or "top messages" (based on relevance).

For instance, if you do a search for #tcdisrupt --the hash-tag for the TechCrunch Disrupt conference that is taking place in New York this week-- you’ll see the live stream of messages. But if you re-order the message stream by “top messages, this week”, you see the highlights of the conference in the form of the most relevant messages. We give you the option to see the most relevant messages in the last two hours, the last 24 hours, the last week or last month.

Once you’ve set your preference you can also subscribe to that version of the stream via RSS -- that way, you receive a feed of the most important messages on a keyword or topic. You can also turn your preferred view of the stream into a widget that you can embed on your blog or website. By clicking on the little icon with the gears (it turns red when you hover over it as shown in the image below) you’re taken to the widget creator.

We also let you close sections of the topic page with the little triangle icon on the section headers. If you just want to see stories and are not interested in retweet stats for example, you can hide the stats section.

You only have to set your preferred view once and we’ll remember it for all the pages you visit on trends.ellerdale.com. This is just the beginning of the personalization options... there’s more to come so stay tuned. In the meantime, we’d love to know what you think of this feature and which other ways you would like to be able to personalize our pages.