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Sounds really similar to my last startup and I'm glad to see it. There hasn't been a good solution so far to making news relevant to you without making you sea
by yesimahuman 16y ago
Sounds really similar to my last startup and I'm glad to see it. There hasn't been a good solution so far to making news relevant to you without making you search all day for it. NLP, Machine Learning, smart news alerts, etc., can all make some interesting solutions to these problems without needing to be perfect. Also, mainstream news is the least socially connected news source out there and there is a lot of work to be done in this space.
Woven sounds like a Gist competitor to me (like we indirectly were), but I felt like Gist transformed into a plaxo type company in recent months rather than news intelligence so I'm not so sure anymore. At any rate, I look forward to seeing Woven grow!
- aria 16y agoThanks so much. Any insight from your startup we could benefit from?
- yesimahuman 16y agoMy email should be in my profile if you want to chat.
- frossie 16y agoThe problem is that this is all a lot harder than just news discovery. I don't just want a news item that is relevant to me; I want a high quality news item. I also want to reward the news source for its high quality. Solve that problem and I'll come over and hug you. At least for me, news items I pursue fall into two categories - news I really ought to know (either on the local or national or international scale), and news that expand my understanding of the world due to the high quality of the presentation (think of the great magazine features, and generally the stuff you can get from places like givemesomethingtoread.com) but are not actually directly "relevant" to me. It's actually the latter category that is harder to find (and where the fact that there is no good source-agnostic reward model for news sources causes me to feel most bad).