Friday, September 30, 2011

Why Hunch Rocks

Yes the world is replete with a million new tools all clamoring for attention and interaction. Read Platforms vs. Websites and Curation The Next Web Revolution on ScentTrail on Technorati to find out why it seems like we are in an infinite loop of new content curation tools.

Don't let Hunch.com's magical tool get lost in the tool stew. Hunch.com is a magical mystery tour of a tool. Its crisp, clean and immediately easy to understand user interface makes you want to jump in and start making recommendations. I've been using Tumblr more lately, but am finding Hunch more fun, easier, faster and better looking without all the selecting and modifying a template pain I went through on ScentTrail on Tumblr (pain is too big a word, a couple of hours of building really isn't so painful).

Amount of build time on Hunch? Zero

Hunch's interface is so clean, the picture rendering so crisp and clear it makes you feel like you are scrape booking but in an incredible cool way. Tools that will stay are self reinforcing. Each time you use it you want to use it more. Hunch.com meets that test many times over. I think about it even when I am not using it. I also think about some of the very creative people and their fascinating and wide reaching recommendations. Here are a few of my favorite Hunch.com contributors:

Benjamin De Baets ictus

Jon Russell jon

Kookyukie 

jcarpenterclicks

Chris Dixon chris

Stephanie Terry stephanie4terry

and me (used Mobriff for this one):  MobRiff

Create a Hunch.com account. You will find cool new stuff, I just picked up The Noun Project from Stephanie Terry, with the least effort of any thing half as cool.

Note to Not-For-Profits - load your brands into Hunch. It is FREE and may help you build traffic, increase your donor list and donations. Just be sure to make a commitment to update your profile with fresh recommendations every now and again. Nothing worse than someone just trying to take out of these social network environments. 

To the talented, and I mean TALENTED, design and development team at Hunch.com I say THANKS. Amazing work, simply amazing.

Mobriffer :)

2 comments:

Christina said...

Thanks Marty! I work over at Hunch and this is a real treat to hear. Keep up the great recommendations, we all really appreciate it!

Marty said...

Thanks Christina you are a beautiful inspiration in many more ways than one and as only Vassar could create :). Martin