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They exist, but they're usually at least a few days (if not weeks) behind, mostly because they're doing the exact thing you ask for. But in today's Twitter/Fac

They exist, but they're usually at least a few days (if not weeks) behind, mostly because they're doing the exact thing you ask for. But in today's Twitter/Facebook world, a headline plus a paragraph is about all that most people care about. By the time someone does real research into it, the story is old news and people have already made up their minds about it. Places like the New York Times & Washington Post still seem to do research and actually employ real journalists. Unfortunately they get drowned out by the "entertainment news" companies who report things faster, and who really don't care about "facts" so much as condensed snippets of text.

funkyy 11y ago
Often but not always. OK guys, I have idea about cool startup, but since I am working on something else, here it goes - create a "Like" button that instead of liking, will say "Follow" - this will let you follow story. If any news outlet will post follow up, you will be informed. But then if after XX time the outlet will not post follow up - you will be notified to look for the end of the story elsewhere or you will be suggested some other outlets. With proper coding you can get huge thing in your hands. Do it. Do it now, I will use it. Even you Pocket - do it. Whatever do this, just give me 1% stock so I can support some charity with it in exchange of idea.
- prawn 11y ago
  How do you judge what content from another outlet is just repeating what you already know and what's new? It gets pretty tedious seeing further articles that are largely duplicates of what you just read.
  - atrus 11y ago
    Actually, my dad had this same idea a few years back. I tried to build it, but it's hard to do. Your options are: 1. Stick to the same source, crawl the pages for updates 2. Figure out the topics of the story, and do a sort of "Google Alerts" for those topic, and filter to things that are relevant. 3. Go user generated. You submit a story you're interested in, other users can look through lists of "un-updated" stories, and if they find an update they can get "points", since everybody loves internet points. Good luck, if anyone manages to do it, let me know, my dad would love to use it.
    - funkyy 11y ago
      4. make websites to use your API to get exposure to their follow up, encourage them to update by getting them traffic from outlets that didn't follow up. 5. Create a news selection bot that works like upgraded Google in news finding (not that hard, it just needs imagination).

funkyy 11y ago

Often but not always. OK guys, I have idea about cool startup, but since I am working on something else, here it goes - create a "Like" button that instead of liking, will say "Follow" - this will let you follow story. If any news outlet will post follow up, you will be informed. But then if after XX time the outlet will not post follow up - you will be notified to look for the end of the story elsewhere or you will be suggested some other outlets. With proper coding you can get huge thing in your hands. Do it. Do it now, I will use it. Even you Pocket - do it. Whatever do this, just give me 1% stock so I can support some charity with it in exchange of idea.

prawn 11y ago
How do you judge what content from another outlet is just repeating what you already know and what's new? It gets pretty tedious seeing further articles that are largely duplicates of what you just read.
- atrus 11y ago
  Actually, my dad had this same idea a few years back. I tried to build it, but it's hard to do. Your options are: 1. Stick to the same source, crawl the pages for updates 2. Figure out the topics of the story, and do a sort of "Google Alerts" for those topic, and filter to things that are relevant. 3. Go user generated. You submit a story you're interested in, other users can look through lists of "un-updated" stories, and if they find an update they can get "points", since everybody loves internet points. Good luck, if anyone manages to do it, let me know, my dad would love to use it.
  - funkyy 11y ago
    4. make websites to use your API to get exposure to their follow up, encourage them to update by getting them traffic from outlets that didn't follow up. 5. Create a news selection bot that works like upgraded Google in news finding (not that hard, it just needs imagination).