Top Interests on

Chime.in

Music

Photography

Humor

Fashion

Movies

Food

Fitness

Geek Culture

Books

Travel

US Politics

Social Media

What differentiates Chime.in? Chime.in addresses two problems:

Relevance

Instead of getting random Tweets

from followers, users can select certain inter-

ests from each followers, effectively filtering

content that interests the user. Users can also

just follow particular interests or communities.

Monetization

Chime.in pays you to contribute. Fifty

percent of the revenue it earns from selling

advertisements on their profile pages. Individu-

als or brands that sell real estate themselves

can keep all of the proceeds from the ads.

Chime.in

www.chime.in

Owned by UberMedia

CEO Bill Gross

Created October 2011,

Pasadena, CA

Businesses that

created branded

pages with Chime.in

What is Chime.in? It has Twitter-like sharing with a cross between Face-

book status updates & blog postings, and the voting

mechanics of Reddit.

Chime.in is not intended to be a social network. CEO Bill

Gross dubbed it the “interest network”.

Unlike most social networks, Chime.in is organized

around subjects such as music, humor, and food (see

left), rather than people or friends. Similarities include a

newsfeed (or chime line), profile page and a system of

following other users. It improves upon existing social

media by weeding out noise that the user is not interest-

ed in and only shows content relevant to the user’s

interests. Users may build communities around their

favorite subjects and anyone can create topic pages,

which users can subscribe to updates about particular

chimes.

What are “chimes”? Short articles, up to 7,000 characters long with displays

including a headline, the first few sentences of the chime,

a piece of multimedia (image, video, link, poll), the user’s

profile picture, up to 7 interest tags and options for liking,

commenting and sharing. Threaded comments include,

Reddit style up or down voting systems that bring the

best comments to the top of the chime. Chimes can be

sent specifically to a user’s followers, communities, e-

mail, Facebook or Twitter postings.

Overall Review Chime.in is relatively new and generally unheard of

since most of the top communities have no more

than a few thousand members. The customization

isn’t as deep as a blogging website. Users with very

unique and specific interests will have a hard time

generating a lot of traffic into their chimes. Looking

through the entire website, there has not been sight

of any ads so the possibility of Chime.in paying for

content, especially it still being in the beta stage, may

either take a while or not happen at all. There were

mobile apps for the iPhone, Android and Black Berry

available, but the Apple App Store seems to not have

that in stock. Even with powerhouses such as Disney

and Universal trying to brand themselves, there isn’t

nearly enough traffic on this site to do what it envi-

sioned. Perhaps in time, UberMedia will make

Chime.in into what it originally intended to be.

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Chimeinnow

Interests Tagging

Commenting on a Chime

Creating a Chime

People Chimeline vs Interests Chimeline

Signing up: You can either use your Facebook or Twitter ac-

count to automatically sign in, or you can create a

user name and password specifically for the website.

Profile settings are optional and you can adjust your

name, bio, website, location and avatar (which

Chime.in will use your Facebook/Twitter profile pic as

the default).

Chime.in How to (http://chime.in/user/

ChimeHowTo) can be a useful resource.

Using Chime.in: Chime.in’s search function lets you search by person,

interest and community so you can choose how you

want to engage around a topic you care about.

Rich media-enabled, photos, videos, polls or links and

users can view them directly on your stream. Posts

can broadcast across other social platforms

(Facebook, Google+, Twitter).

In order to create a chime, create a headline (up to 65

characters), up to 7,000 character article, then post

one of the following: link, poll, picture or video. Use up

to 7 interest tags and finally choose if you want to

send the chime to your followers, communities, e-mail

recipients, Facebook feed or Twitter feed.

Maintaining Chime.in: Respond to comments or comment on others’ chimes.

Give thumbs up or down for chimes to appropriately

have those chimes go up or down in a chime line.

You can join or create communities that are open or

moderated. For example, fashion, books and travel.

You can create a storyboard which is a collection of

your similar chimes on one page centered around a

theme such as foods or hiking.

Adjust notifications on Chime.in to your preferences.

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