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Show HN: TokCloud – The easiest way to get reliable tech news everyday

2 pointsby anges244over 10 years ago

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anges244over 10 years ago
The favorites&#x2F;bookmarking part is something we&#x27;ll implement soon enough. It is actually based on their RSS streams but in the next update we&#x27;ll add sources that required web scraping and did not have their own personal feeds.<p>The short summaries come from using the Embed.ly API for now but we&#x27;ll replace it just by scraping the Open Graph or Twitter card meta tags from the pages directly.<p>To keep it reliable and clean we decided not to allow users to add their own sources but we&#x27;ll keep adding new ones regularly and we&#x27;ll add a form to take suggestions.
leereevesover 10 years ago
Thank you for changing the Twitter permissions. I signed up.<p>This has potential. How does it work? My guess: a better RSS reader. This would be a slick design for that.<p>Can I add sources other than the ones you&#x27;ve chosen?<p>I like the short summaries, but where do they come from? I thought it might just be the first paragraph, but for &quot;Feature Friday: Accept Bitcoin With Stripe&quot;, the summary comes from the middle of the article. Is it in fact from RSS?<p>Also, I&#x27;d like to be able to mark my favorite articles, and view a list of my favorites.
anges244over 10 years ago
To be able to share news directly by pressing the tweet button. Actually it&#x27;s the basic read-write twitter access but since we implemented the front-end tweet button I just changed the required permissions to read only.
anges244over 10 years ago
Hey guys,<p>Would appreciate feedback about this project. The goal is to create a website with feeds from reliable tech news and opinion sources. It&#x27;s still very early but who would you recommend as a source?
leereevesover 10 years ago
I like the design, but why do you need to be able to create Tweets for your users and follow new people?<p>I stopped when I saw that.