5 Crazy Ideas for Bloomberg.com
Things that aren't, probably never will be, but might be REALLY cool
Spencer Carver
November 21, 2019
A quick note...
I'm pretty sure data for all of these features is actually already available and in use, they just need to be combined in the proper way to create each product/idea
1. Twitch-style Live Stream Extensions
https://www.twitch.tv/p/extensions/
Twitch opened up it's broadcasting to extensions of various types, which you anyone (individual or company) can develop and allow any viewer to download.
Code is written in React, and allows viewers to modify their experience to their liking (to a degree of whichever extensions are available)
What it could look like
2. Homepage Highlights
Users who have a watchlist with us probably care about stories related to companies on their watchlist.
We already have a watchlist news section, but the majority of users also just squat on homepages.
What if we combined those features....
What it could look like
Take it further
We already make personalization calls on the homepage that returns recommended stories, topics, authors, etc
Why not annotate stories that are curated with this information. There may not be many, but it could provide more discoverability with information we already have on the page
3. What If Pricepoints
Our quote pages are streamlined and professional-looking, but there's more data available in other places (such as Yahoo! Finance) that we aren't able to expose.
But we CAN control the manner in which we present it and make it interactive.
What it could look like
3b. What If Pricepoints (Take it further)
4. News BMAP
We have all of our articles tagged with a LOT of metadata, and don't always take advantage of it.
Creating a variety of one-off "discoverability" pages can provide interesting ways to consume news and increase the number of pages an average viewer would read.
For example, overlaying a map of the US with top stories that are sorted/listed geographically (If we go down to city for stories, otherwise it can be a World Map grouped by country)
What it could look like
5. Timeline News
Can be a module that's integrated into QuickTake coverage on the side, or dynamic based on user specifications
If requesting news about a public security, stories can be overlaid on a chart of the stock price over the time range (this feature exists in the terminal to an extent)
Timeline of the Mueller Investigation
What it could look like for a news topic
What it could look like for a security topic
Wrap-up
We've done a lot of brainstorming the past 2 years, and come up with a lot of new products relying on building new systems and collecting new data
Think about the data we already have and how we can surface it
Announcement
The Next Consumer-Media Hackathon is currently targeting January 2020
Back from the break!
Fresh Ideas!
Work isn't yet in full swing and competing with deadlines!
Focus / Details / Exact Date TBD, but keep an eye MSG/Slack in December