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."
No Sign-in (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... [trove.com]
U.S. News: http://trove.com/me/channels/1... [trove.com]
Re:iOS shouldn't be mandatory... (Score:5, Informative)
Overdesigned (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.
Re:iOS shouldn't be mandatory... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:iOS shouldn't be mandatory... (Score:3, Informative)
It does look like you need to set up an account and can't browse anonymously, so sorry AC.
I signed up and it did not require an email confirmation. You can use any name & email account. Anonymity is alive and well on Trove.
Re:Slashdot users know better (Score:2, Informative)
VA Linux bought Andover.net in cash and stock for over $1B a year after the IPO. So yeah, I'd say that Rob probably made out in the $40-50M range depending on when/if he sold those options...
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-236456.html
Re:Nice CSS/Javascript on your reddit clone (Score:0, Informative)
Re:Opinion bubble (Score:5, Informative)
It's the reason why the internet has been such a double-edge sword for politics. Rather than a world-wide network enabling us to reach and appreciate a far wider range of topics and beliefs, we've instead been largely enabled to find the most comfortable echo chamber to reinforce all of our crazy without having to listen to neighbors who might not agree with our increasingly detached beliefs.
Not that that's always a bad thing, if you're a persecuted minority, for example. But I think the edge facing us does more cutting than the other side of the sword most of the time. Just look at how partisan things have gotten.
Re:iOS shouldn't be mandatory... (Score:0, Informative)
You must HAVE missed basic grammar lessons in school, glass house.