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#3: New news I'm a news hound. And, I started http://Newsley.com http://Newsley.com to try and find a solution to the new news problem that I had. I picked

#3: New news I'm a news hound. And, I started http://Newsley.com http://Newsley.com to try and find a solution to the new news problem that I had. I picked financial and economic news because it's an interest of mine that will hold my attention. Besides, advertising rates are much better for financial and economic keywords than they are for funny videos or cute cat pictures. My hypothesis, social news sites have done a pretty good job of finding and highlighting interesting and new content (Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, Metafilter, etc..) But, I don't think that anyone has really done a good job of offering great news recommendations yet. The solutions we've seen so far are generally human editor (newspapers), moderators (slashdot), or collaborative filtering (reddit, digg, HN). My goal is to build a community of people interested in great financial and economic news and analysis, and then try to build a great personalized news recommendation engine for them. There are other sites working on the news recommendation systems. Twitter sort of fills that bill, MeHive has been trying a heavy indexing/algorithmic approach, but I haven't really been happy with what the recommendations they've been able to offer me yet. Also, if any body else is doing news recommendations, ping me. I'd be really interested in talking.

bvi 17y ago
Ok, so how is Newsley currently different from, say, /r/worldnews for example? Newsley is using collaborative filtering as well. I see a bunch of links voted by the community, which I'm assuming contribute to their ranks on the frontpage.
- iamelgringo 17y ago
  Right now, it's not that much different. Reddit's front page can be awfully toxic at times, and I don't think people automatically look at reddit and say, "I might find some interesting economic news here if I can just wade past all this other crap." Once I have enough users to keep the site afloat, I'm going to start offering recommendations. There's a lot more to come.
richardw 17y ago
You sure those sites do collaborative filtering? AFAIK, the 'front page' is the same for all, and real CF would show you a personalised page depending on your tastes. Like movielens does for movies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
- iamelgringo 17y ago
  Collective Intelligence. My bad. I got a little algorithmically dyslexic.
andrewcooke 17y ago
i like the style you use on that site - simple, connects with the idea of a newspaper, clean, distinctive.

bvi 17y ago

Ok, so how is Newsley currently different from, say, /r/worldnews for example? Newsley is using collaborative filtering as well. I see a bunch of links voted by the community, which I'm assuming contribute to their ranks on the frontpage.

iamelgringo 17y ago
Right now, it's not that much different. Reddit's front page can be awfully toxic at times, and I don't think people automatically look at reddit and say, "I might find some interesting economic news here if I can just wade past all this other crap." Once I have enough users to keep the site afloat, I'm going to start offering recommendations. There's a lot more to come.

richardw 17y ago

You sure those sites do collaborative filtering? AFAIK, the 'front page' is the same for all, and real CF would show you a personalised page depending on your tastes. Like movielens does for movies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering

iamelgringo 17y ago
Collective Intelligence. My bad. I got a little algorithmically dyslexic.

andrewcooke 17y ago

i like the style you use on that site - simple, connects with the idea of a newspaper, clean, distinctive.