HN and reddit are really social curating dashboards with a commenting system. both are better than self-described curating sites like storify. a major problem

HN and reddit are really social curating dashboards with a commenting system. both are better than self-described curating sites like storify. a major problem is the overwhelming flow of links from the entire internet because of the third-party content structure. exploration platforms like stumbleupon send garbage traffic, so that's not the answer, either. you don't want traffic for traffic's sake, you want real people that read and contribute. news is a special species of information: 1) all "open" information in the sense that it is intended for the general community. 2) it is time-sensitive 3) it is geographically relevant the current internet is structured for historical or aged-content. that's why you see all of the indexing of third-party content instead of an integrated platform that standardizes the news format and can personalize content for anyone around the world. you have to look at the production side of the equation, not just the product, if you want to solve the news problem. considering that all of the VCs have given up and the legacy publishing institutions are approaching the problem from the perspective of adapting their structure, no one you know of is actually working on the news problem. it's a multi-billion market opportunity with very little competition. the potential financial gains are exciting, but at the end of the day ( and the beginning), everyone wants an information edge. I want the information edge! i've got years invested in the problem and a public beta platform to iterate up from. it will be obvious in hindsight! :)