Slashdot Mirror

BitCoin? There's a whole channel for that linked right from the home page:

http://trove.com/me/channels/1...

No, I'm not talking about Slashdot and Trove. I'm actually referring to this part in the summary:

Users are encouraged to curate "troves," collections of stories that relate to a particular theme.

And this Technology News channel as an example.

It looks like Trove has the potential for dozens or even hundreds of channels with the same overall theme. As a non-curator, it looks like you'll have to browse through these channels and decide which ones are worth following. And I already see about a half dozen tech-related channels just attached to the stories listed on the above channel, which means there's going to be a lot of duplication.

I'm not sure how that's useful or convenient, but we'll just have to see...

Here's example links to the "actual site" that doesn't require you to sign in: Tech News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1... U.S. News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1...

Don't forget this: http://trove.com/me/search/Ric...

Here's example links to the "actual site" that doesn't require you to sign in: Tech News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1... U.S. News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1...

Don't forget this: http://trove.com/me/search/Ric...

Here's example links to the "actual site" that doesn't require you to sign in: Tech News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1... U.S. News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1...

Don't forget this: http://trove.com/me/search/Ric...

I thought the interest in tracking was obvious when the giant Connect With (Facebook|Twitter) buttons got plastered on my face in the login page*. The logo-riffic Partners page does not help. It's clear that Trove is already in Slashdot's current milking-it stage, as a marketing tool for themselves and the logo'd companies. Taco's lost what's left of his way.

*and again, when I looked the create-account page**.

**which makes you have to click again to sign in with an email address if you're a normal non-TwitFace user. No thanks, I don't smoke and I don't "social".

You're going to love Trove then!

it's web-based too

Okay, so say I want to 'follow' a 'channel' on Trove.. but I have no interest in using the website. I know, I know.. using the website is what's actually desired - the same applies to Twitter and facebook and google+ and etc. - but nonetheless I set things up so that I can 'follow' people on them anyway by using either...

1. The feed provided for me, which means I can just get posts in any feed reader, including my custom one.
2. The API they make available - even if they do make me jump through hoops with OAuth and a ton of other things that have everything to do with 'posing on behalf of a user' crap when really all I want is read-only access to already public things - so that I can include it in my custom one.
3. Yoink whatever data source they're using, sometimes having to impersonate the site or prior access because they got wise to people using that data source, didn't want them to, and put up artificial roadblocks.
4. Scrape. Yeah, that's right, Google. You don't provide a feed, you make the API limited to just a few dozen queries per day, while serving the desired content to a bajillion people every day? I'll just waste bandwidth and scrape.

So, where does Trove fit in? I'm not seeing a feed anywhere in the page source, I'm not seeing anything about an API (read-only or otherwise), I see I can grab the datasource through e.g. http://trove.com/me/channels/C... and get a tidy little json packet - but maybe Trove frowns upon doing so, or I could scrape (but would have to use the js-enabled scraper and boy do I ever not want to do that).

Please tell me the Trove developers know better.. or at least plan to know better with an announcement of API/feeds 'coming soon' .. or an official "developers: grab the json datasources if you just want read-only access of public data, that's cool with us - peace out."

Here's example links to the "actual site" that doesn't require you to sign in:
Tech News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1...
U.S. News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1...

Here's example links to the "actual site" that doesn't require you to sign in:
Tech News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1...
U.S. News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1...