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Newsly Hack Is Tinder For News Articles |
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About the organization Tinder:
Type: Business
Sub-Types: Application Software, Telecommunication Software, Social Networking Agent, Online Dating |
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Notable Organizations: Tinder, Techcrunch
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| Tinder’s interface for quickly filtering people you might like to date from those you definitely don’t is being applied to all sorts of other sorting tasks. We’ve had multiple Tinders for shopping, for instance. And here at the Disrupt Europe 2014 hackathon in London we’ve just seen a Tinder for news stories, called Newsly, presented on stage.
The three-person strong team of UCL students behind Newsly hacked overnight, using machine learning APIs to create a news reader app that tailors which articles the user sees based on their personal preferences. The reader is shown articles on cards (below, right) that contain the headline, subhead and article image. They then swipe right if they want to read an article or left if they don’t. Just like Tinder. |
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