Comments on: Revver Founder Launches Thoof: Personalized News Service

By: Austin-Based Thoof Launches Private Beta | AustinStartup

Austin-Based Thoof Launches Private Beta | AustinStartup — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:03:06 +0000

[...] can read the opinions of Michael Arrington at his post on TechCrunch. There is also a reply to some readers comments from Ian, so you might want to scroll down the page [...]

By: MeeHive.com to help build your own personal newspaper | Great Sites To Visit

Thu, 07 May 2009 14:09:27 +0000

[...] news sites aren’t new – it’s an idea that has been tried many times, and haven’t typically fared well. But unlike some of those efforts, MeeHive also incorporates a social element to the site, allowing [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » MeeHive Taps Into Kosmix To Build Your Daily Personalized Newspaper

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:01:13 +0000

By: MeeHive Taps Into Kosmix To Build Your Daily Personalized Newspaper | Tech Newz

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:59:49 +0000

[...] aren’t new – it’s an idea that has been tried many times, and haven’t typically fared well. But unlike some of those efforts, MeeHive also incorporates a social element to the site, allowing [...]

By: Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust

Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:57:47 +0000

[...] (vote buttons and other tools weren’t a true indicator of intent, Clarke argued). From our first post on Thoof: Thoof determines what you like based solely on what stories you click on to read. Asking for [...]

By: Psst, Want to Buy a Thoof? - GigaOM

Psst, Want to Buy a Thoof? - GigaOM — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:31:44 +0000

[...] Thoof combined community features like those offered by Digg, whereby users could vote on the news they were most interested in, with wiki functionality that allowed people to edit articles. Through visits, the site’s recommendation software learned what a reader wanted, and over time strove to deliver a personalized list of news to users. [...]

By: Social reading is a win « Assetbar: drinks and recipes

Social reading is a win « Assetbar: drinks and recipes — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:37:39 +0000

[...] Earlier this year, Michael Arrington said it ever so clearly: “I think people usually want to read news and then discuss it with friends.” [...]

By: Mini-post: Thoof : The Name Inspector

Mini-post: Thoof : The Name Inspector — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:21:03 +0000

[...] any earnest discussion of its strengths and weaknesses. A commenter on TechCrunch said it sounds like a potato gun being shot. What more is there to [...]

By: Thoof Is Close But Not Nearly Close Enough « Network(ed)News

Thoof Is Close But Not Nearly Close Enough « Network(ed)News — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:13:55 +0000

[...] Mike Arrington’s concern, inspired the fact that “web is littered with failed or stagnant personalized news [...]

By: Read/WriteWeb

Read/WriteWeb — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:08:29 +0000

Thoof: A New Social News Startup…

Yesterday Richard opined that Digg could use some editors so that if someone submits a story with a nonsensical description or lame title it could be fixed instead of seeing a good story get buried. Thoof, which is a new……

By: A Way To Improve Digg’s Data

A Way To Improve Digg’s Data — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:52:29 +0000

[...] and it’s something I’ve seen with a few other startups. Thoof, for example, which we wrote about last month, allows users to change any story in a wiki-like fashion. Changes are then voted on by the [...]

By: A Way To Improve Digg’s Data

A Way To Improve Digg’s Data — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:52:29 +0000

By: Thoof Now in Public Beta

Thoof Now in Public Beta — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:51:19 +0000

[...] Social news site Thoof, privately launched nearly two weeks ago by invitation only, is now open to anyone. Our launch post is here. [...]

By: Daily Cilantro

Daily Cilantro — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:10:40 +0000

Thoof launch…

I’m currently demoing Thoof, the news personalization company launched by the Founder of Revver, Ian Clarke. Their launch was profiled in TechCrunch last week. So far, I can’t really get a good handle on how the product works. I know…

By: Darin

Darin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:20:42 +0000

Mike … got any invites … i’m interested!

Darin

By: Giedrius

Giedrius — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:48:48 +0000

The merging/updating concept is interesting in itself, however we will see how good it will be in the real life. I am for voting system and niche “diggs” instead of adaptive algorithms for picking news.

By: Thoof Invites - News With Artificial Intelligence

Thoof Invites - News With Artificial Intelligence — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:17 +0000

[...] caught this new personalized news service on TechCrunch the other day and thought I would give it a shot. Thoof is another personalized news service, [...]

By: Andres Alterini

Andres Alterini — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:24:09 +0000

Leonard, We just launched http://www.Keegy.com that integrates content from newspapers, blogs and news sources, reads your location and show the relevant content near you based in tags categorization… The important thing is that an IA Algorithm make all for you. We will launch new user friendly functionalities in the next days… Thank you!

By: Rachel Sterne

Rachel Sterne — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:30:25 +0000

Mike, you’re dead on: “people usually want to read news and then discuss it with friends. So what is considered “interesting” is influenced by what everyone else is consuming that day.”

This explains why people decry the media but still follow it– it’s how you participate in society. Over-personalization implies that people want an isolated news experience, when the opposite is true. The philosophy you hit on is actually driving the next development phase at GroundReport.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:31:13 +0000

I liked the http://linkedfeed.com recommendations engine inside of a news feed aggregator that looks like Netvibes a bit..

I hope Thoof is a great product, I would like to try it out and see what it can recommend me to read.

It’s hard work to look through my hundred feeds in Google Reader, and Google News doesn’t seem to make news really personalized the way I would really like it.

By: jeffer lee

jeffer lee — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:44:15 +0000

it is hardly to copy a succesfully model. and there are too many web 2.0, i don’t like the name web 2.0! i think a website helpful to people will be success.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:41:55 +0000

Is there any service that I could use that scrapes content from newspaper sites and aggregates it all for me?

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How many people here believe WWE is real? — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:20:43 +0000

lol… it’s soo fake…

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By: Satish

Satish — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:20:00 +0000

Would love an invite when those role around!

By: whoopee

whoopee — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:06:01 +0000

no one cares to spend three months training these systems. they will never take off as standalone sites, but perhaps culled from a more populous log corpus like google or yahoo