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Stop letting other people tell you what to read

August 8, 2007 |

Social networking and personal news delivery sites are a great way to get the diversified information that appeals to your interests, but many of these sites have ranking systems that keep stories buried so far down you may never find them.

Get the news you want to read. Not the stories that other people have ranked for you.

Thoof is a social news site that outranks others by not ranking at all. Where a site like Digg allows the wealth of the users to determine the relevance or importance of a stories, at Thoof it is all about the individual.

You wont see any “Most Popular” or “Highest Rating” views of the information on Thoof. You are instead able to browse the related tags of stories you like and every story you click is kept on your history page. From there you are able to Edit the description if you find it misleading or send the story to a friend if you still like it.

Thoof is personalized news at its’ best. Instead of going by the majority rules scenario, Thoof.com operates much more like Wikipedia, allowing users to correct each other on a reasonable basis in order to serve the community with the most accurate descriptions of the news content available.

Thoof even adds off-site functionality with the easy to use, easy to install Thoof It button. It is actually quite clever. All you have to do is drag the Thoof It button from their site onto your bookmarks bar in your browser. When you have a story or video that you want Thoofed, you just click the bookmark.

Once that is submitted, you are given a ThoofRank Badge that can be embedded into your article. Is this starting to sound familiar? Well, they are trying to add some new value.

“ThoofRank, is a fair measurement of how interesting a story is to readers with interests in common with the story. It is expressed as a percentage relative to other Thoof stories, so a ThoofRank above 50% indicates that a story is of above average interest to those readers.”

When you tie in the aspect of people with similar interest, you are further eliminating the possibility of the stories you want to read being buried by the ones the general site population wants to read.

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