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Describing the personalized aggregation service Trove as a “next generation” news experience, The Washington Post’s Vijay Ravindran figures it probably won’t save journalism on its own, but it’s a start.
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ersonalize news from among 10,000 online sources, launches into public beta next month.
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challenge from tablet-only competitors such as Flipboard and Pulse
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he site calculates reader interest based on feedback gathered implicitly through observed behaviors and explicitly through a topic selection tool.
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eparating noise from signal in algorithmic preferences
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He sees the eventual best solution laying somewhere along a continuum between computer-generated algorithm, and human expert editors.
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“A purchase is a very high quality signal of interest,” he said referring to the act of buying book from Amazon. “You can’t compare that to a click-through on a headline.”
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“there’s no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure.”
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“The social stream is a means to filter success. Relying on friends and a personal network to filter the news and point out the best stuff solves that problem Shirky identified,” Rosen said.
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Also, the trust that readers place in people they know isn’t the same as the trust they place in news organizations,
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74.6% said that Facebook was a major way in which they received news and information from NPR, and 72.3% said they “expect” their friends to share links to interesting information and news stories with them online.
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There’s a lot of value in having a personalized experience. It makes the experience more rich,” Osofsky said.
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As news consumption evolves on Facebook, it’s news feed is likely to become more focused and targeted.
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media sites are learning some lessons and are experimenting with ways to provide readers with a customized experience.
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Google News aims to surface the most relevant, useful news for you. We customize your news based on the following factors:
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You can manually control many elements of Google News
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Adjust how much you prefer to see news from a given section by adjusting the slider toward the plus sign (+), or the minus sign (-).
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preferred language and country
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Select how much content you want to see from Blogs and Press Releases.
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Google News has a local news section for you based on your location. You can see this section in a box in the side column.
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Turning Off Personalization If you don’t want to see personalized news, you can:
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