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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. No Sign-in by clinko · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

  2. Overdesigned by vanyel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Any site that comes up with a list of a dozen or more sites that I have to permit requests (RequestPolicy) and scripts (NoScript) to function screams we're more interested in tracking you than providing a usable site. Next.

  3. Re:iOS shouldn't be mandatory... by FatAlb3rt · · Score: 5, Informative

    it's web-based too