Comments on: Introducing The Most Advanced News Site On The Planet

By: darkfall gold

darkfall gold — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:28:37 +0000

By: club penguin

club penguin — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:51:31 +0000

The question is when are we going to get a news site that has useful news for the mainstream? For people who don’t know what Digg is, but still go online to look for non-techie news. Newspond is just another news site because it’s inundated with Tech and Gaming articles. Niches are great, but who will take care of the masses? Newsvine comes close, but there is certainly space for more.

By: sehmuz

sehmuz — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:59:52 +0000

I like the site personally. I like the look of it and find the stories interesting. adtech ile reklam 2.0 dönemi başlıyor ve Trkycmhrytllbtpydrklcktr r10.net seo yarışmasıTo be honest, this is better than Digg because you don’t have the Digg “gangs”, groups of idiots that only vote up Apple and anti-Microsoft stories.

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Newspond « SocialWeb — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:43:54 +0000

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[...] back to Blews. It’s a news aggregator (see Techmeme and about 45 others, including this gem), but it goes beyond mere clustering of stories to show what’s important right now based on [...]

By: Eduardo Sasso

Eduardo Sasso — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:47:33 +0000

I always thought about building something like this, but they did it first, so thumbs up for newspond, nice service and great design also

Eduardo
http://openjobs.com.br

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:00:43 +0000

quick question… everybody so hungry for a mature news aggregation service, who’s willing to pay a subscription? you know that’s the only way to conquer the Digg mentality… so unless your willing to pay (and say so outloud) then you’re never going to get the service you hope for… (free services are subject to trollism and spam.. it’s just life).

By: sodapop

sodapop — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:33:57 +0000

I have a dozen of this sites bookmarked and the same thing happens to all of them – they run the same dame stories – pop culture and emotional hysteria. And then it might as well be the front page of CNN or some other corporate shill. What we need is a site that sorts out the meaningless and useless news and delivers us news *we should read* at the same time protecting us from the personal slants of the editors. That’s what Digg and user ranking attempts, but they have fallen in to tar pit of mirroring traditional media because their users are still brain washed. They want to see Paris’ cooch when they should be reading the details behind the mortgage industry collapse.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:41:27 +0000

@gregory

I personally think the site that mixes all them is NewzNozzl.

By: Varun Mathur

Varun Mathur — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:10:20 +0000

If Newspond had a RSS feed…you can just plug it in “the Most Advanced RSS Feed Reader On The Planet”, alongside your Techmeme, Digg and Newsvine feeds and see the news from ALL of them

I’m talking about Alertle (http://www.alertle.com)

By: Anand

Anand — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:01:20 +0000

Good luck to the founders,
but I find the name realllyyy boringg – Newspond LOL..

By: BubbleHead

BubbleHead — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:06:44 +0000

Also, I think the site meggite lets you roll your own techmeme.

By: BubbleHead

BubbleHead — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:06:09 +0000

I haven’t looked at NewsPond yet, but I think these guys are pretty smart. Their over-the-top hyperbole got them coverage on TechCrunch and a number of other blogs where most small startups go unnoticed no matter how cool their site is.

Now with all the links in, they are going to have some google juice and at least get some traffic to start things off.

By: Shey | SweetSop Design

Shey | SweetSop Design — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:00:36 +0000

How can the world’s most advanced news site not have an RSS feed? Anyone else sense a date with the deadpool?

By: Patrick Grote

Patrick Grote — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:22:01 +0000

Gregory … amen.

Techmeme is pretty damn close to being perfect on the tech front, but for all around there is nothing yet.

By: Aaron Mentele

Aaron Mentele — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:13:28 +0000

It’s very pretty, though.

By: gregory

gregory — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:46:08 +0000

news.google.com…. boring mainstream status quo, and dumbed down

reddit.com…. diversions, not news

digg…. low key sensational, not news

slashdot, techmeme, techcrunch…. very nice, but tech only

where is the intelligent/alternate/global/independent/balanced aggregated news site?

hasn’t been built yet, i think… i am waiting

By: rubu

rubu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:41:59 +0000

When we saw BBD we loved it on function, dissed it on design – back to the drawing board they went.

By: jennydecki

jennydecki — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:22:45 +0000

I’ve been looking for news with “highly-advanced machine intelligence” for so long, and now…now it’s finally here and I don’t have to be satisfied with the CNN scrollbar anymore. This is moving on up to the East side!

Great post, I really enjoyed it.

By: JosefVirek

JosefVirek — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:20:08 +0000

There really isn’t anything compelling enough for me to switch to Newspond.

Here’s a suggestion, without revealing too much about your algorithm, explain to everyone (in detail and without the cheesy adjectives) how the bouyancy rating is calculated. Mimic what google did with PageRank. Google explained how pagerank worked and that gave PageRank credibility.

A user has to know (and more importantly, care) how/why a specific article is important/popular and why is it better than Digg/REddit/etc.

By: Raskin

Raskin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:52:28 +0000

Meh. I go to Rawstory.com for news … and it is ALL I need. kinda like a Drudge, only with a lefty bias.

By: Alex Hammer

Alex Hammer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:34:19 +0000

Will TechCrunch potentially employ a reader voting system (Digg like or other format) for quantifyable input both in terms of reader’s views on companies and products profiled on TechCrunch and also on TechCrunch stories themselves?

I notice that the comments are an integral part of TechCruch, but there appears little way of quickly sifting and pulling out the “collective intelligence” from them (difficult admittedly to separate from opinion, also it is not clear whether there would be a responder bias, that is whether those who comment are representative of the readership or audience at large).

It would be great to have some objective credibility or trust system, maybe like eBay employs, to really determine what commenters and opinions are most knowledgeable/valid.

I like that Michael interacts a lot in the comments. My guess is that that is a significant factor in building up the TechCrunch community, so to speak, and the success of the site.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:33:13 +0000

One quick glance and I said ‘meh’. However, I do see one minor tidbit of interesting info on their site that I’m not finding on Digg or Techmeme: how long ago each media outlet wrote about a particular story. Tells me who’s leading and who’s following to a small degree. The shortcomings of the site will still keep me away from it, but thought it was worth a mention.

By: Kraig Kruze

Kraig Kruze — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:31:53 +0000

RSS? I would imagine they just need to switch it on…

By: Kraig Kruze

Kraig Kruze — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:30:16 +0000

I think any alternative to Digg is healthy… Digg is very good, but not the be all and end all of online news…

Comparing Newspond to sites such as Digg is not necessarily a good indicator of how successful it may be.