You might want to wonder or ask why todayamerican is different from any other site which either creates news or publishes news from different sources. Today I will attempt to answer this question in detail.
First it is neccessary to understand the primary reason we exist - because simply put, today you have to search for tech news or keep pressing refresh on the existing tech blogs to read content online. If you follow many tech blogs, this can quickly get old. RSS readers alleviate this problem to some extent, but how many people really like installing software on their desktops?. Even with an online service like Google Reader, it is just a dumb website, which pulls in data from different sites you subscribe to, without any idea of what content it is pulling or whether it is of interest to anyone or not.
Our service is very intelligent in comparison. And it has features for advanced users as well as completely non tech-savvy users who I think form the bulk of the population.
We get the latest tech news hourly from the internet, we ensure that duplicates are minimized - even across multiple tech blogs, we sort the content based on how many people show interest in it (without having a manual interface for "liking" content). You will notice that we don't tweet all the news we publish - but only the more interesting ones, and we have a content rank, though we don't ask you to "digg", "+" or "like" an article.
We make it very easy even for the most non-technical user to just get the latest, most interesting news. For the tech savvy users, we have personalized RSS feeds which keep track of what they have read, and only server those articles which they have not read before.
In this respect, we compete more with sites like stumbleupon, rather than content publishers like engadget or tech crunch. I think we have gone slightly ahead of the norm by both having our own website, a blog which contains our tech news as a separate entity as well as a twitter account which notifies everyone of the headlines. In effect, this encompasses most of the requirements needed by people who read tech news.
First it is neccessary to understand the primary reason we exist - because simply put, today you have to search for tech news or keep pressing refresh on the existing tech blogs to read content online. If you follow many tech blogs, this can quickly get old. RSS readers alleviate this problem to some extent, but how many people really like installing software on their desktops?. Even with an online service like Google Reader, it is just a dumb website, which pulls in data from different sites you subscribe to, without any idea of what content it is pulling or whether it is of interest to anyone or not.
Our service is very intelligent in comparison. And it has features for advanced users as well as completely non tech-savvy users who I think form the bulk of the population.
We get the latest tech news hourly from the internet, we ensure that duplicates are minimized - even across multiple tech blogs, we sort the content based on how many people show interest in it (without having a manual interface for "liking" content). You will notice that we don't tweet all the news we publish - but only the more interesting ones, and we have a content rank, though we don't ask you to "digg", "+" or "like" an article.
We make it very easy even for the most non-technical user to just get the latest, most interesting news. For the tech savvy users, we have personalized RSS feeds which keep track of what they have read, and only server those articles which they have not read before.
In this respect, we compete more with sites like stumbleupon, rather than content publishers like engadget or tech crunch. I think we have gone slightly ahead of the norm by both having our own website, a blog which contains our tech news as a separate entity as well as a twitter account which notifies everyone of the headlines. In effect, this encompasses most of the requirements needed by people who read tech news.
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