No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.<p>(For you youngun's who don't get the joke: <a href="http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod" rel="nofollow">http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...</a>)
I'm going to go ahead and say the obvious asshole comment:<p>I thought when he retired from Slashdot it was because he wanted to do something different.
Read the privacy policy first: <a href="http://info.trove.com/policies" rel="nofollow">http://info.trove.com/policies</a><p>One of the sad facts: "We do not honor Do Not Track requests."
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this different than Flipboard?<p>It looks like it allows me to browse articles shared by friends and experts I choose to follow, exactly like Twitter + Flipboard.
This looks nice, but I'm not sure the solution to the overwhelming amount of content out there is more curation. I can't see myself having the time to build the perfect set of "troves".<p>Instead, I'd like to see more automated filtering of the many streams I <i>already</i> have. I think Summify was on the right track here (before they were acquired).
I may be dense, but this does seem like a slow follower to Prismatic and co. It's interesting in a way: kind of pretty, but it doesn't seem like it's going to change my world.<p>Of course, I half expect to be proven wrong because I've now voiced my doubts.
Heard about this the other day, gave it a try, didn't see any value in it.<p>Most importantly, as far as I can tell, there's no way to share an arbitrary link. If you create a new trove it's a requirement to specify an existing trove as a source - your "picks" from the source troves comprise the newly created trove.<p>Therefore, users can't share and curate so much as sift and sort what the editors have already deemed worthwhile. Apparently, the only recourse for seeing specific content added is sending an email [0].<p>0: <a href="http://info.trove.com/faq#sources" rel="nofollow">http://info.trove.com/faq#sources</a>
Two things. One, the title is a little misleading. Trove existed before CmdrTaco joined WaPo. Second, when it was owned by WaPo it had a nifty API. I'm not sure if that's still true (the WaPo API page still exists):<p><a href="http://apiportal.washingtonpost.com/api/trove" rel="nofollow">http://apiportal.washingtonpost.com/api/trove</a>
<i>> "Trove is a digital news innovation group within Graham Holdings (formerly The Washington Post Company)."</i><p>Does this mean: Bezos bought the WaPo, the parent company rebranded, CmdrTaco works for the old owners, and thus is not affiliated with the WaPo any more?
> The best news stories picked by people who share your interests.<p>This will be a success only to the extent that it fosters a diversification of voices. If all it does is to create more ideological group-think news bubbles, then it's just more of the same for a culture obsessed with self-selecting their news, and hearing only the viewpoints that they already agree with.
Ya ever feel like all us bloggers were the miners during the 1990s blog gold rush? CmdrTaco and all of us turned out to be the miners, Matt Mullenweg and Dries Buytaert turned out to be Levi Strauss. I'm not sure if Trove and all the similar things are shovels, or just some nuggets.