Comments on: NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:14:47 -0800 hourly 1 By: News Aggregator: NewsCred Ranks News On Credibility http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2444368 News Aggregator: NewsCred Ranks News On Credibility Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:01:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2444368 [...] Jason Kincaid, “NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source”, TechCrunch, Au... Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...] [...] Jason Kincaid, “NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source”, TechCrunch, Au… Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...]

]]> By: NewsCred Blog » Blog Archive » What a Launch! Phew… http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2442988 NewsCred Blog » Blog Archive » What a Launch! Phew… Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:07:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2442988 [...] 930am, we were on TechCrunch. Its the second time this summer, so we were humbled, but excited. By the end of the day, we were [...] [...] 930am, we were on TechCrunch. Its the second time this summer, so we were humbled, but excited. By the end of the day, we were [...]

]]> By: Mad TPM cred. « andrew golis http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2442884 Mad TPM cred. « andrew golis Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:09:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2442884 [...] TPM cred. I’ve decided that NewsCred is going to be a smashing success for reasons that have nothing to do with the fact that it rates TPM at a 99.7 out of 100.  I just [...] [...] TPM cred. I’ve decided that NewsCred is going to be a smashing success for reasons that have nothing to do with the fact that it rates TPM at a 99.7 out of 100.  I just [...]

]]> By: houseofseo.com » Blog Archive SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 2008 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2442134 houseofseo.com » Blog Archive SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:28:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2442134 [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source, TechCrunch [...] [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source, TechCrunch [...]

]]> By: houseofseo.com » Blog Archive SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 2008 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2442133 houseofseo.com » Blog Archive SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:28:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2442133 [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source, TechCrunch [...] [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source, TechCrunch [...]

]]> By: houseofseo.com » Blog Archive SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 2008 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2442132 houseofseo.com » Blog Archive SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:28:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2442132 [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source, TechCrunch [...] [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source, TechCrunch [...]

]]> By: NewsCred.com Aggregates News By Credibility, Not By Popularity » blogstring.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2442083 NewsCred.com Aggregates News By Credibility, Not By Popularity » blogstring.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:42:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2442083 [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source [...] [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source [...]

]]> By: Linda http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2441523 Linda Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:12:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2441523 Nice - but beta scares me. Just when you really fall in love with a beta product it goes poof. Nice – but beta scares me. Just when you really fall in love with a beta product it goes poof.

]]> By: Tech News » Blog Archive » SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 2008 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2441392 Tech News » Blog Archive » SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 2008 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:08:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2441392 [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source, TechCrunch [...] [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source, TechCrunch [...]

]]> By: Digidave http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2441380 Digidave Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:01:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2441380 I'm a contributing editor at NewsTrust.net - which does a similar service, but I also work in the digital journalism space in general. I also want to offer a congrats to Shafqat - his has the best ideals for NewsCred and I fully support it. Good luck!!! I’m a contributing editor at NewsTrust.net – which does a similar service, but I also work in the digital journalism space in general. I also want to offer a congrats to Shafqat – his has the best ideals for NewsCred and I fully support it. Good luck!!!

]]> By: 080819 Daily Links for Recruiters (August 19, 2008) | johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2441217 080819 Daily Links for Recruiters (August 19, 2008) | johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2441217 [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source This is what the competition for Jason Goldberg’s SocialMedian looks like. The idea is to take community opinion to a new level. Yahoo’s Buzz is a similar notion. [...] [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source This is what the competition for Jason Goldberg’s SocialMedian looks like. The idea is to take community opinion to a new level. Yahoo’s Buzz is a similar notion. [...]

]]> By: Media Is Controlled by ***s http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2441155 Media Is Controlled by ***s Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:18:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2441155 Before going to Iraq war we had a 2000 : 1 ratio of pro Iraq war to against in amount of material in the news. We are doing the same in regards to Iran now as we are about to blunder into another mess. The media in US--and increasingly more around the world-- is under the control of a select group, that I would not mention by name. The war in Iraq was pushed by that certain group, and has cost average tax payers up to 3 trillion dollars. This type of power is detrimental and I hope sites like this are able to shed some light on how unbalanced our news has become. Before going to Iraq war we had a 2000 : 1 ratio of pro Iraq war to against in amount of material in the news. We are doing the same in regards to Iran now as we are about to blunder into another mess.

The media in US–and increasingly more around the world– is under the control of a select group, that I would not mention by name.

The war in Iraq was pushed by that certain group, and has cost average tax payers up to 3 trillion dollars. This type of power is detrimental and I hope sites like this are able to shed some light on how unbalanced our news has become.

]]> By: News Aggregator to Turn Credibility Into a Science / Jossip http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2441048 News Aggregator to Turn Credibility Into a Science / Jossip Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:41:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2441048 [...] come back to haunt you later on (whoops, Montauk Monster)? Now there is a news aggregator site that uses an algorithm to determine the credibility of user-submitted stories, which would (in theory) allow commentators to work as their own self-cleaning system of news [...] [...] come back to haunt you later on (whoops, Montauk Monster)? Now there is a news aggregator site that uses an algorithm to determine the credibility of user-submitted stories, which would (in theory) allow commentators to work as their own self-cleaning system of news [...]

]]> By: Left Of Center » Blog Archive » NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2441044 Left Of Center » Blog Archive » NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:37:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2441044 [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source. [...] [...] NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source. [...]

]]> By: Scott Lockhart http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440981 Scott Lockhart Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:54:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440981 Hi, this is Scott, one of the co-founders of Regator. Congrats to Shafqat and his team. Just wanted to add that Regator and NewsCred are quite different when it comes down to it, as Regator does not have any "newsfeeds" (AP, Newspapers,etc), we only have blogs that are hand-picked by our editors. A subtle difference but in practice a fairly large distinction. Right now we have well over 3,000 of them in our directory and it's growing every day. Socialmedian would be a little closer to NewsCred in that they are more focused on newsfeeds, but still the sites take a fairly different take on it. Jason - thanks for the link mate :) Hi, this is Scott, one of the co-founders of Regator. Congrats to Shafqat and his team. Just wanted to add that Regator and NewsCred are quite different when it comes down to it, as Regator does not have any “newsfeeds” (AP, Newspapers,etc), we only have blogs that are hand-picked by our editors. A subtle difference but in practice a fairly large distinction. Right now we have well over 3,000 of them in our directory and it’s growing every day. Socialmedian would be a little closer to NewsCred in that they are more focused on newsfeeds, but still the sites take a fairly different take on it.

Jason – thanks for the link mate :)

]]> By: Nigel Eccles http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440960 Nigel Eccles Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:37:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440960 Great interface. Makes browsing news articles a joy. Personalized haven't had a great track record but this is a novel spin on it that could take off. (BTW Does anyone know what ever happened to Google News's great idea about letting participants in stories correct the article. Not heard much about that recently). Great interface. Makes browsing news articles a joy. Personalized haven’t had a great track record but this is a novel spin on it that could take off.

(BTW Does anyone know what ever happened to Google News’s great idea about letting participants in stories correct the article. Not heard much about that recently).

]]> By: Abbot http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440942 Abbot Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:21:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440942 Oh yes, inviting the marketing departments, VCs, and a nation of partisan paranoids on both sides (who see bias in any outlet that doesn't reconstitute their world view) to rank news outlets by "credibility"...what could possibly go wrong? Oh yes, inviting the marketing departments, VCs, and a nation of partisan paranoids on both sides (who see bias in any outlet that doesn’t reconstitute their world view) to rank news outlets by “credibility”…what could possibly go wrong?

]]> By: tom http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440932 tom Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:14:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440932 ok ok

]]> By: ImageCo http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440917 ImageCo Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:53:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440917 <a href="http://www.imageco.com" rel="nofollow"> I don't need a NewScred my Old Scred still works fine. </a> I don’t need a NewScred my Old Scred still works fine.

]]> By: NewsCred launches public beta » mathewingram.com/work | http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440900 NewsCred launches public beta » mathewingram.com/work | Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:25:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440900 [...] After a year or so of invite-only alpha testing, NewsCred launched as a public beta service this morning. The site, founded by Shafqat Islam and Iraj Islam, is trying to create a kind of outsourced reputation system for news websites and blogs, in which users vote on the credibility and accuracy of specific news stories or blog posts, and those votes are combined with the site’s own algorithms to generate a credibility profile. It’s an interesting effort, and one that I think will likely appeal to many news and blog readers, since we’ve probably all read things and snorted in derision at the unbalanced or inaccurate take someone has taken — both in professional media and on blogs. But is NewsCred the solution? [...] [...] After a year or so of invite-only alpha testing, NewsCred launched as a public beta service this morning. The site, founded by Shafqat Islam and Iraj Islam, is trying to create a kind of outsourced reputation system for news websites and blogs, in which users vote on the credibility and accuracy of specific news stories or blog posts, and those votes are combined with the site’s own algorithms to generate a credibility profile. It’s an interesting effort, and one that I think will likely appeal to many news and blog readers, since we’ve probably all read things and snorted in derision at the unbalanced or inaccurate take someone has taken — both in professional media and on blogs. But is NewsCred the solution? [...]

]]> By: 7P http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440885 7P Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:13:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440885 Cred != Investigative Journalism? I hope The Daily Show makes the list, since it seems to be the most credible source of news in the U.S. at the moment. Cred != Investigative Journalism?

I hope The Daily Show makes the list, since it seems to be the most credible source of news in the U.S. at the moment.

]]> By: Kristoffer lawson http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440881 Kristoffer lawson Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:08:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440881 Congratulations on your launch from 'old Scred'. Had a system like this that I was creating for fun in the golden 90s. Has good potential and wishing you all the best! Congratulations on your launch from ‘old Scred’. Had a system like this that I was creating for fun in the golden 90s. Has good potential and wishing you all the best!

]]> By: Alfred Toh http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440860 Alfred Toh Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:28:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440860 Try http://socialmedian.com then. you can add your own source, form your own channels. Try http://socialmedian.com then. you can add your own source, form your own channels.

]]> By: Pete Foster http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440858 Pete Foster Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440858 I've been using the service since their Private Alpha a couple months ago. At first I was a bit skeptical, but the improvements they've made are quite dramatic and I'm a believer now. Their topic pages (automatic I believe) are great, and if they can quickly grow the user face, they have every chance of success. I’ve been using the service since their Private Alpha a couple months ago. At first I was a bit skeptical, but the improvements they’ve made are quite dramatic and I’m a believer now. Their topic pages (automatic I believe) are great, and if they can quickly grow the user face, they have every chance of success.

]]> By: Pete Foster http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/newscred-goes-public-with-credibility-based-news-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2440852 Pete Foster Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:18:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=21204#comment-2440852 They definitely seem to have more than 100 sources. I just chose a random category and counted atleast 120 and then stopped counting. Its probably in the 100s not in the 1000s. They definitely seem to have more than 100 sources. I just chose a random category and counted atleast 120 and then stopped counting. Its probably in the 100s not in the 1000s.

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