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CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-wish-you-great-success dept.

jigamo writes "The Verge reports on a new app from Slashdot co-founder Rob Malda, a.k.a. CmdrTaco, which aims to provide a user-powered and -curated stream of news. It's called Trove, and it's currently available on the web as well as iPhones and iPads. From the article: 'Trove basically lets users opt in to feeds of stories that align with their interests. Users are encouraged to curate "troves," collections of stories that relate to a particular theme.' You can also read CmdrTaco's announcement post." Rob says, "At its simplest, Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight with crowd-sourced harvesting to cover the 'News for Nerds' space. Trove uses automated harvesting and machine learning to simplify a workflow for curators interested in ANY topic. The idea is that this opens up non-nerdy subjects. This will let us maintain a strong signal/noise ratio for casual users less interested in expending effort to get their news across diverse subject matter."

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  1. Re:We have one of those already. by dugancent · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it has less BitCoin articles, I'll take it.

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  2. CmdrTaco's Trove? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No inline summaries. Less linkability than pinterest. Lame.

  3. Re:We have one of those already. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm hoping we can convince Bennett that's where we're all going to hang out at from now on.

  4. News to me by J'raxis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight

    Well that's news to me. We have quality control here?

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  5. Re:The point where I stopped reading by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You got that far? My stopping point:

    available on the web as well as iPhones and iPads

    If your website needs a dedicated app on mobile platforms, you're either doing something wrong or doing something unethical.

  6. Re:Slashdot users know better by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, there were typos and dupes, so the 1.5M got modded up.

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  7. Re:Nice CSS/Javascript on your reddit clone by rudy_wayne · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rob says, "At its simplest, Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight"

    I wonder how many times he gagged and choked while writing that line?

  8. LMFTFY by csumpi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me fix that for you:

    "Slashdot used to combine editor quality control and insight with crowd-sourced harvesting to cover the 'News for Nerds' space."

    .

  9. This new Slashdot site sounds great. by gallondr00nk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight with crowd-sourced harvesting to cover the 'News for Nerds' space.

    God, I wish the editors were like that here ;)

  10. Re:Nice CSS/Javascript on your reddit clone by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's nice looking

    Wait a while, I'm sure beta.trove will be along shortly.

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  11. Re:We have one of those already. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For all its faults, at least Slashdot isn't a tired circle-jerk of callous libertarians, militant atheists, hysterical feminists, misogynist MRAs and general contrarian white suburbanite american kids who are the very soul of aggressive pig-headed impatience.

    I'll take slashdot any day.