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Re: My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated

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Post by rorrr »

It's kind of interesting, I like how clean it is, and that the most important keywords are presented in 2-word titles, which makes it very easy to scan.

I would remove "via", it's polluting the page.

EDIT: And maybe add the timeframe selector. Since it's a news site, it would be cool to see the trending news of the last hour, for instance.

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Post by necrecious »

It looks like you are doing a simple frequency analysis to determine words for titles. In some cases it works, in others it reduces to just brand names. The Linux tab is filled with "Linux" for example.

Perhaps you need a learning filter that catches words that are too common and filters them out.

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Post by andycroll »

Really like it and in an interesting space. Social filtering (i.e. Twitter as RSS) works for news sometimes, but it leads to filter bubbles.

Worth thinking about how this could even power 'slower' news (a.k.a. Economist-style) by utilizing the algorithm to find out 'what' is important over a period of time and then later finding the best writing about the topic and highlighting that.

Re: My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated

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Post by lurchpop »

very cool. i might just stop using techmeme!

I agree with the other commenter about having a "more" button.

The thing that bugs about techmeme is they make it appear as if the tech word consists of a handful of companies (Apple, FB, Twitter, Google, MS), and you basically have no other news outside of that.

Your site has that, to a lesser degree, but its still there. I see 2 google stories, 2 twitter stories, 2 yahoo stories. It might be useful to compile a small list of company names and group on company name if you see it appear twice.

Re: My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated

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Post by dewiz »

Really nice. I think you could increase accessibility and click through increasing news titles font size and adding some padding. I noticed that it's verys easy to read block titles but difficult to focus on actual news, with the result that I scroll the page searching for "interesting blocks" more than "interesting news". Well done anyway ;) Any thoughts about exposing some rdf views?
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