Thursday, August 23, 2007

Personalized News

It’s true, information is power. But searching for right information often is frustrating experience with no guarantees of success. Been there, done that. I would like to see some sort of personalized news service, where I can choose what kind of information I need to see. Also, it would be even better if news are user generated, which will give me all different kind of views on specific subject. If I could be able to edit and vote on that news, sky would be the limit. What? This already exists? You are kidding!

Thoof is a user generated news and information service that learns about what you are interested in and delivers news that you care about.Thoof is dedicated to anyone interested in news and information. Thoof's "personalization algorithm" means that users access news and information based on individual likes and preferences on the very first visit. Users become part of the Thoof democracy by proposing changes/additions to posted content; all users can vote on whether the change is beneficial. Personalized News in action!

Thoof is introducing tag streams, which allows you to choose specific news categories. I have created my flash, web, funny+video and technology tags and every time I open Thoof’s home page, only this categories of news are presented to me. You can add or delete any tag you want. Another nice feature is that when you scroll to the bottom of your page, “loading more stories” box appear and web page simply gets bigger for extra news. You can use this repeatedly as many times as you need. Like never ending news page. I don’t know how long your page can become. I tried to come to the end, but after few minutes I got tired. Maybe you can find out and let me know?

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