Posts Tagged ‘human editors

AOL is launching its entry into the increasingly crowded iPad magazine space with the new application AOL Editions. The app is somewhat similar to other high-profile efforts like The Daily, Flipboard, Plus and Zite, but attempts to find its niche by offering a personalized, social, once-daily experience which is also publisher-friendly. But most importantly, in [...]

AOL is launching its entry into the increasingly crowded iPad magazine space with the new application AOL Editions. The app is somewhat similar to other high-profile efforts like The Daily, Flipboard, Plus and Zite, but attempts to find its niche by offering a personalized, social, once-daily experience which is also publisher-friendly. But most importantly, in [...]

An article at Harvard Business Review takes an interesting look at “seven things human editors do that algorithms don’t (yet).” They boil down to: anticipation, risk-taking, the whole picture, pairing, social importance, mind-blowingness, and trust. Clearly there’s still room for humans on the web. In search, that’s good news for Blekko, which brings the old [...]

The New York Times released Thursday a finished version of the Recommendations platform it quietly introduced in beta in late January. Available at nytimes.com/recommendations and on the “Recommended For You” tab on article pages, the tool is designed to help logged-in readers “see through the news fog,” as NYT lead technology reporter Nick Bilton put [...]

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: FindTheBest.com Quick Pitch: FindTheBest is a socially curated comparison engine helping people make faster and more informed decisions, unhindered by [...]


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