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Re: Show HN: Morning Reader – A simple way to read the news

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The quality of the curation, at least for my taste and at least at this moment, is exceptional. Maybe the best algorithmic curation I've seen. I'm curious what inspired you. There are many algorithmically curated news feeds; why add another? Is it because you believe your algorithm is a leap forward? Elsewhere you say it's mostly the same one used by HN. Regardless, it works well for me. Thank you!

> The quality of the curation, at least for my taste and at least at this moment, is exceptional. Maybe the best algorithmic curation I've seen.

Glad you liked it, thanks!

> There are many algorithmically curated news feeds; why add another? Is it because you believe your algorithm is a leap forward? Elsewhere you say it's mostly the same one used by HN.

There are many attempts at "personalized news". Also some niche "community curated" news (influenced by HN and Reddit). And some mostly algorithmic, like the new Digg and Techmeme. We fit on this third group, and are just experimenting to see what we can come up with quality wise.

Re: Show HN: Morning Reader – A simple way to read the news

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The quality of the curation, at least for my taste and at least at this moment, is exceptional. Maybe the best algorithmic curation I've seen. I'm curious what inspired you. There are many algorithmically curated news feeds; why add another? Is it because you believe your algorithm is a leap forward? Elsewhere you say it's mostly the same one used by HN. Regardless, it works well for me. Thank you!

I'm not sure I agree. I browsed to tech news and got 3 of the same stories from different web sites. The diversity of web sites is great, but recognizing that you are repeating the same story 3 or 4 times is important as well.

Re: Show HN: Morning Reader – A simple way to read the news

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When you add more topics, I would pay for API access to get an hourly list of popular stories in each topic. If this is ever added please let me know :-)

We're thinking about doing at least daily digests – with the top x stories of the last 24 hours – for each topic, via email and/or RSS. Thanks for your suggestion!

Re: Show HN: Morning Reader – A simple way to read the news

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post #34

When you add more topics, I would pay for API access to get an hourly list of popular stories in each topic. If this is ever added please let me know :-)

We're thinking about doing at least daily digests – with the top x stories of the last 24 hours – for each topic, via email and/or RSS. Thanks for your suggestion!

If you offer RSS I wouldn't have to pay (I assume) - if you had an API I would use it for commercial use.
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