FAQ
What is Cascaad?
Cascaad is a new generation social dashboard centered around your interests. Cascaad helps you discover the personally relevant developments in your world by continuously distilling what your friends and millions more are discussing on Twitter and Facebook into noteworthy stories, things and places that match your specific interests and social circles.
How do I get Cascaad on my iPhone?
Is Cascaad a free service?
Completely! No premium versions or anything. What you see is what you get!
What is the best way to use Cascaad?
Just by using it. All you need then is to interact with the service, indicate items you particularly liked or disliked, and Cascaad will tune the content to match your tastes.
How does Cascaad interact with my social networks?
To make the most of Cascaad, you need to link at least your Twitter account to your Cascaad profile. You can browse the realtime web without, but the experience will be more limited in this case. Once you have linked your Twitter account, Cascaad will be able to retrieve your home timeline and surface its most relevant items. You will also be able to post new messages and share the content and topics that grab you on Twitter and Facebook.
Relevant news?
Cascaad identifies what's relevant for you by merging a series of criterions: the matching of any content item with your personal interest profile, the level of attention that the item is receiving within your extended social sphere and the personalized influence associated with the people who contribute to the item's propagation. In this way you won't need to scroll dozens of useless retweets; you will directly receive the most interesting ones.
A discovery engine? How does it works?
The normal usage of twitter it's to read all the tweets published by the people you follow, which at time can get quite noisy. Not to mention all the interesting information from outside your social connections that you might miss.
What Cascaad does is to surface what is likely to interest by analyzing and ranking the conversations taking place in a much larger social sphere constructed around you.
How can I follow the level of my tuning?
You can check it directly on your profile page, available both on the web site as on the iPhone app.
What about my privacy?
We take your privacy very seriously. Your interest profile is ... yours. It feeds the personalization algorithms designed to improve your media experience, but in no way do we make the data public. Some of your other profile information is made public, such as your username, avatar and the topics you are tracking, to foster social discovery and the gathering of like-minded people around common interests. To find out more on how we manage your data, read our Privacy Policy. Should you have any lingering concern, just contact us.
