CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup

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."

Re:We have one of those already.

[dugancent]

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

CmdrTaco's Trove?

[Anonymous Coward]

No inline summaries. Less linkability than pinterest. Lame.

Re:We have one of those already.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

News to me

[J'raxis]

Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight

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

Re:The point where I stopped reading

[Guppy06]

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.

Re:Slashdot users know better

[JustOK]

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

Re:Nice CSS/Javascript on your reddit clone

[rudy_wayne]

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?

LMFTFY

[csumpi]

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."

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This new Slashdot site sounds great.

[gallondr00nk]

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 ;)

Re:Nice CSS/Javascript on your reddit clone

[Hognoxious]

It's nice looking

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

Re:We have one of those already.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.