Ask HN: Our prototype: People real-time news. Would you use it?

Re:Ask HN: Our prototype: People real-time news. Would you u... by scrrr on Thursday September 09, 2010 @12:03PM (#1675803)

I think this could be very useful. If not for the general public (except perhaps fans of celebrities) then at least for people that professionally need to keep track of them. Reporters, showbiz-professionals etc.

Also: I don't care (at all) about the badges but would be interested in it as a research tool. Furthermore I'd like to have a software like this that is not limited to people but also to concepts, ideas and topics in general.

For example I'd like to be kept up to date on subjects like "Life on Mars" or "A.I.". Better than Google alerts and websites like HN already help me be it.

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Re:Ask HN: Our prototype: People real-time news. Would you u... by mprovo1 on Thursday September 09, 2010 @12:51PM (#1675988)

Thanks, I really like your idea of a product for professionals. It would definitely be useful for them. And tracking subjects is something we really want to do! Our first product was a "speedreader" bookmarklet that extracted the most important concepts of a webpage and generated a navigation tool that allowed you to scroll to them. Unfortunately, identifying important concepts in a document is a much harder problem than named-entities/organizations (but doable I think).

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