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Accepting Applications For Better Mobile News

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Re: Accepting Applications For Better Mobile News

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Not nearly as good as native for precise location. Although there's been some speculation that can be overcome, but yeah.

Huh? The HTML5 geolocation API will provide the exact same results that the native one will, especially if you use the enableHighAccuracy flag.

Not been my experience at all, but I am probably doing it wrong!

Re: Accepting Applications For Better Mobile News

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post #15

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Huh? The HTML5 geolocation API will provide the exact same results that the native one will, especially if you use the enableHighAccuracy flag.

Not been my experience at all, but I am probably doing it wrong!

using getCurrentPosition() will have extremely variable results, but watchPositition() will return regular results as it gets more and more accurate.

Re: Accepting Applications For Better Mobile News

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This was talked about on HN before, but some of the problems/solutions mentioned about not just mobile news, but online news in general:

1. S/N (signal to noise ratio) of news aggregators.

2. Monetization: Sponsored posts? (Techmeme) Intrusive ads?

3. Mobile first: Think readability.com

4. Opportunity discovery: News to startup founders was leveraging emerging trends before others became aware of them.

5. Personalized news: I think personalization is the reason why zerply.com, dreamforge.me, vastrm.com are doing well right now.

Self-plug: I'm trying to solve the mobile news problem with http://dinopost.com but I need help. Anyone interested in working with me and applying to a future YC class with this? (Open to pivots).

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