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Re: Ask HN: List your favourite social news sources

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Post by _b8r0 »

shafqat wrote: post #5

I heard NewsCred.com is full of awesomeness. In all seriousness, we have thousands of visitors a day loving it, so something must be good about it. Personally, my day consists of Hacker News, NewsCred, some Google News, and a sprinkling of the Onion.

Wow, can't believe I've never come across NewsCred before...

Re: Ask HN: List your favourite social news sources

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Post by shafqat »

_b8r0 wrote: post #6
shafqat wrote: post #5

I heard NewsCred.com is full of awesomeness. In all seriousness, we have thousands of visitors a day loving it, so something must be good about it. Personally, my day consists of Hacker News, NewsCred, some Google News, and a sprinkling of the Onion.

Wow, can't believe I've never come across NewsCred before...

We just launched recently, so maybe that's why. I've bounced around a ton of ideas and got a lot of help from the HN community over the past year so you might have come across related posts before. Anyway, do let us know what you think - always looking for feedback!

Re: Ask HN: List your favourite social news sources

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Post by _b8r0 »

shafqat wrote: post #7
_b8r0 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, can't believe I've never come across NewsCred before...

We just launched recently, so maybe that's why. I've bounced around a ton of ideas and got a lot of help from the HN community over the past year so you might have come across related posts before. Anyway, do let us know what you think - always looking for feedback!

It might be an idea to put down (possibly here, maybe a separate post) what it provides over Google News and My Yahoo - that's what I saw as the main competitors.

I'll definitely go back though and have added it to my list of daily things to check :D

Re: Ask HN: List your favourite social news sources

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

shafqat wrote: post #7
_b8r0 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, can't believe I've never come across NewsCred before...

We just launched recently, so maybe that's why. I've bounced around a ton of ideas and got a lot of help from the HN community over the past year so you might have come across related posts before. Anyway, do let us know what you think - always looking for feedback!

I really like the ability to filter what news sources I want to see.

Excellent job with the site, all around.

Re: Ask HN: List your favourite social news sources

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Post by brandnewlow »

shafqat wrote: post #5

I heard NewsCred.com is full of awesomeness. In all seriousness, we have thousands of visitors a day loving it, so something must be good about it. Personally, my day consists of Hacker News, NewsCred, some Google News, and a sprinkling of the Onion.

I've checked out Newscred before. As a journalist, I'm always interested in new news sites (working on one myself). While I'm very skeptical that newscred ratings actually represent what you say they represent, I'm all in favor of you giving it a shot and seeing where it leads..

One question, though: How are you dealing with copyright issues? For instance, this article featured on your front page appears to be a complete lift of a Gizmodo article, photo and all.

http://newscred.com/article/show/title/iowa-state-researcher...

What's your policy on that? Are you hoping to sneak under the radar? Are you only lifting stories from people who publish full feeds?

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