Announcing Channel 9 Notifications

[EDN Admin]

Whether it is comments on a video, forum posts or events, Channel 9 is all about facilitating conversations. And there are a lot of conversations. Wouldnt it be handy if Channel 9 aggregated the conversations you were interested in and notified you when there was new activity?
Were excited to announce weve implemented such a feature. The idea is that in one place -- your notification feed -- you can see activity for any posts and threads you are following. For this new feature, youll notice weve incorporated ideas from other popular social network websites . Heres how it works:

• All video posts and forum threads now have a follow button next to them.
  
  
• You can see and manage your notifications from your profile page:
  
  
  
• Anytime anyone comments on an item you are following, an entry is added to your notification feed, which can be found on your profile page.
  
  
  
• In addition, you can opt in to receiving emails whenever something is added to your notification feed.
  
  
  

We think the infrastructure weve built to enable this notification system has a lot of possibilities, such that Channel 9 brings the content you care about directly to you, instead of you having to seek that content out yourself. Were just getting started here and theres more we want to implement, including the following:

• Following shows, so you are notified when a new video has been added to a show
• Following people, so you are notified when there is activity by a person on the site
• Digest emails, so you get one email a day instead of multiple emails
• Giving you the choice to auto-follow any conversation you participate in

Were excited to release this feature and looking forward to your feedback. I can tell you right now: Im following this post and will be notified as soon as you comment!

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