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CmdrTaco's Trove
- JohnTHaller 13y agoiOS only. No Android. There's a very tiny "or sign in on the web" link below the iOS button.
- guptaneil 13y agoMaybe I'm missing something, but how is this different than Flipboard? It looks like it allows me to browse articles shared by friends and experts I choose to follow, exactly like Twitter + Flipboard.
- JeroenRansijn 13y agoMy thoughts exactly. Seems a lot like Flipboard.
- muppetman 13y agoNo wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. (For you youngun's who don't get the joke: http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...)
- habitue 13y agoThat's... not really a joke is it? You just kind of quoted him, and then helpfully provided a source.
- xmonkee 13y agoIts a long running meme on slashdot. The original quote serves as a good example of how people most close to tech often have different views on it than its consumers.
- rmc 13y agoIt is also an example of how the technically superior product doesn't always win.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoI'd say it's more an illustration of how "technically superior" can be difficult to measure on paper. It's easy to compare specs, it's harder to compare the things that really matter: usability, elegance, workflow, functional performance, robustness, and aesthetics. These are the enduring characteristics of every product, and often it's easy to ignore such things given that they are very difficult to objectively measure. Performance, for example, can be measured easily in terms of responsiveness of the UI, etc. But that doesn't reflect the actual end-to-end performance and perception of performance as experienced by a user performing real-world tasks. The same goes for usability, which is almost impossible to fully objectively measure. It's easy to dismiss a product as inferior because it lacks features or has a different set of characteristics compared to an existing popular product, but that only works when there are no significant underlying differences in the above meta-features. When Japanese car makers started to introduce their automobiles to the American market a lot of people made fun of their cars. Often the cars were small and underpowered in the muscle car dominated American market. But what those detractors didn't realize at the time was that those cars were extremely reliable and efficient, even if they lacked power and "cool" points. And eventually those types of cars came to be hugely popular.
- OverlordXenu 13y agoBecause industrial design and UX doesn't matter when stacked against a spec list?
- Intermernet 13y agoBecause a spec list doesn't matter compared to the marketing engine that is Apple. Many superior products fell afoul of that.
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- flycaliguy 13y agoI thought the same until I found out Natalie Portman was onboard with a Hot Grits Trove.
- danellis 13y agoThat's still a thing on Slashdot? Jesus, even Reddit memes die more quickly than that.
- mootpointer 13y agoTo go full snark, surely you'd need to append: "from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept."
- samstave 13y agoI far prefer this quote: FireWire (400Mbps) data syncing _and_ recharging at the same time. That's cool. I wonder if it's hackable for a bigger drive... Plus, you can use it as a portable disk. No "content protection". Yay!
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- macNchz 13y agoAnother iPod release thread that's very funny in hindsight is this one on the Mac Rumors forums: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500
- revnja 13y agoiOS only? Sorry. Fail.
- mootpointer 13y agoI may be dense, but this does seem like a slow follower to Prismatic and co. It's interesting in a way: kind of pretty, but it doesn't seem like it's going to change my world. Of course, I half expect to be proven wrong because I've now voiced my doubts.
- robbles 13y agoThis looks nice, but I'm not sure the solution to the overwhelming amount of content out there is more curation. I can't see myself having the time to build the perfect set of "troves". Instead, I'd like to see more automated filtering of the many streams I already have. I think Summify was on the right track here (before they were acquired).
- pit 13y agoI couldn't agree more. The curated internet is a terrible trend -- it encourages mindless, constant, and immediate consumption and discourages exploration (except safely between the lines of your preferred content aggregator).
- codezero 13y agoI agree. What things or kinds of things go against this trend?
- pit 13y agoI wish I had more examples, but all I can really think of is the fact that sites still offer RSS feeds for reading articles.
- codezero 13y agoYeah, it's hard to come up with good examples. RSS itself isn't even a great exploration mechanism for finding stuff outside of a single site. Thinking back to the good old days, my main forms of discovery were IRC, Usenet (with its underlying structure it made it easy to dig into weird/different niches at will)... A few things were consistent about these mechanisms: Each one allowed you to start in a specific niche/community, explore outside of it and become entrenched in wider/more diverse communities/interests. They had some basic structure (channels on IRC, top level groups on Usenet), some form of curation/moderation (channel operators, news server admins who could white/blacklist content, rules/guidelines about cross-posting, some proactive moves against spam/off topic trolling), but ultimately were "open." Anyone could get their foot in with some basic software, anyone could add their voice, and engage either with a group of people or one-on-one.
- matznerd 13y agoLooks similar to Circa?
- trove_tester 13y agoWeb version needs a lot of work. It's really slow, freezes when going back and reloads all assets all the time.
- chris_wot 13y agoIt's like an early version of Slashdot!
- mortyseinfeld 13y agoIs Taco still hacking Perl?
- meerita 13y agoIt's sad there's no Android version. I hope they build it soon.
- haraball 13y agoThis sounds like how I use Twitter, by following people that links to stuff I'm interested in.
- dasil003 13y agoI'm going to go ahead and say the obvious asshole comment: I thought when he retired from Slashdot it was because he wanted to do something different.
- sentenza 13y agoOk, I'm not sure if I still can do this. Let's try: In Soviet Russia, Slashdot retires you?
- danieljh 13y agoRead the privacy policy first: http://info.trove.com/policies http://info.trove.com/policies One of the sad facts: "We do not honor Do Not Track requests."
- crb 13y ago> "Trove is a digital news innovation group within Graham Holdings (formerly The Washington Post Company)." Does this mean: Bezos bought the WaPo, the parent company rebranded, CmdrTaco works for the old owners, and thus is not affiliated with the WaPo any more?
- acheron 13y agoYes. Bezos did not buy the whole "Washington Post Company", only the parts of it related to the actual newspaper. So "Graham Holdings" is what was left that Bezos did not buy.
- nemof 13y agowell at least he's continuing the tradition of butt-ugly websites.
- blakesterz 13y agoYa ever feel like all us bloggers were the miners during the 1990s blog gold rush? CmdrTaco and all of us turned out to be the miners, Matt Mullenweg and Dries Buytaert turned out to be Levi Strauss. I'm not sure if Trove and all the similar things are shovels, or just some nuggets.
- bashcoder 13y ago> The best news stories picked by people who share your interests. This will be a success only to the extent that it fosters a diversification of voices. If all it does is to create more ideological group-think news bubbles, then it's just more of the same for a culture obsessed with self-selecting their news, and hearing only the viewpoints that they already agree with.
- debacle 13y agoWas "echochamber.com" already taken?
- bigsassy 13y agoTwo things. One, the title is a little misleading. Trove existed before CmdrTaco joined WaPo. Second, when it was owned by WaPo it had a nifty API. I'm not sure if that's still true (the WaPo API page still exists): http://apiportal.washingtonpost.com/api/trove http://apiportal.washingtonpost.com/api/trove
- grandalf 13y agolooks cool. hoping it's subway (no network connection) friendly!
- incision 13y agoHeard about this the other day, gave it a try, didn't see any value in it. Most importantly, as far as I can tell, there's no way to share an arbitrary link. If you create a new trove it's a requirement to specify an existing trove as a source - your "picks" from the source troves comprise the newly created trove. Therefore, users can't share and curate so much as sift and sort what the editors have already deemed worthwhile. Apparently, the only recourse for seeing specific content added is sending an email [0]. 0: http://info.trove.com/faq#sources http://info.trove.com/faq#sources