CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup 221
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. (Score:5, Funny)
If it has less BitCoin articles, I'll take it.
CmdrTaco's Trove? (Score:5, Funny)
No inline summaries. Less linkability than pinterest. Lame.
Re:We have one of those already. (Score:5, Funny)
News to me (Score:5, Funny)
Well that's news to me. We have quality control here?
Re:The point where I stopped reading (Score:4, Funny)
You got that far? My stopping point:
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 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nice CSS/Javascript on your reddit clone (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder how many times he gagged and choked while writing that line?
LMFTFY (Score:5, Funny)
"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. (Score:5, 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 ;)
Re:Nice CSS/Javascript on your reddit clone (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a while, I'm sure beta.trove will be along shortly.
Re:We have one of those already. (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.