The Best in Personalized News
Monday, August 20th, 2007If you are like me, you must spend more hours online than any other activity during the day. I guess this is what happens when so much of our life is on the internet and our working environment is at a computer desk. I used to spend the first hour every morning going from news site to news site as well as a number of trusted blogs I followed catching up on the latest news that I found interesting. I’m not the kind of guy that does do with the main section of a news site and I like to dig in and find articles and pieces on topics that I regularly follow.
Of course things are different ever since the conception of some web 2.0 services such as digg and others that provide an aggregated news service and include articles from across the web. But even with services like digg I still found myself going through numerous sites. One reason is actually flawly embedded in the digg system and that’s the fact that in many cases the title of the article is misleading on their system. This is quite frustrating. Also, I find that it is too mainstream and doesn’t give much option of finding personalized news. That’s why I like Thoof so much. They are a real personalized news site. Thoof kind of took the best in digg, wikipedia and a number of other sites and put them all together giving the killer app. You have categorized news so you can easily find what you want. You can suggest changes to the title and description of a post if you think it is misleading and they measure an article’s interest as reflected by user clickthoughs. This is also reflected in the Thoof badge which you can find on sites that submit to Thoof. A Thoof score of above 50% means that most people found it interesting while under 50% means it is a below average site.
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