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I love reading the news via the internet; it’s cheaper (like, totally free) than news papers (and much more green!), you have the ability to search for actual news worthy (to you) stuff, and most places will allow you the ability to add comments and discuss stories with others. You can gain a vast amount of insight into the world this way, mainly how ignorant people are.
Thoof.com offers you personalized news through their site, automatically. ‘Personalized?’, you ask? Yep. As you read stories, Thoof will remember what you’ve clicked on. That’s it. All you have to do. Should you have read the story and didn’t happen to like it, you will have the option to tell the Thoof God’s that you weren’t impressed. It learns! Follow this process enough times, and soon you’ll be presented with a huge page of news customized just to fit your particular tastes.
Thoof is comparable to other services like Digg, Reddit, plime, and especially Stumble. The difference is, there’s really not a ‘front page,’ just your page, displaying only the stuff Thoof thinks you’ll want to see. Users submit stories and blog entries, and by using a tagging system, you’re shown only the results that are filtered to correlate with your previous likes and dislikes. Bloggers can even add Thoof Rank Badges to items they submitted that detail how relevant the article is to the rest of the communities tastes.
Try it out, and leave me some feedback about what you think. I’m sold already, but if you have any differences in opinion, don’t be shy.
–Jeremy Hobbs
