CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @08:00AM 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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Re:We have one of those already. by dugancent · 2014-01-22 08:13 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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CmdrTaco's Trove? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-22 08:16 · Score: 5, Funny

No inline summaries. Less linkability than pinterest. Lame.
Re:We have one of those already. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-22 08:19 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm hoping we can convince Bennett that's where we're all going to hang out at from now on.
News to me by J'raxis · 2014-01-22 08:33 · 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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Re:Slashdot users know better by JustOK · 2014-01-22 08:43 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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