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10-04-2016, 06:10 PM
Yahoo Newsroom app is mobile 'Reddit for the masses'
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Yahoo wants its readers to be more connected via its latest mobile app.
Called Yahoo Newsroom, the app offers a personalized feed of news stories. Rather than simply having articles ranked by clicks and views and by the company's own editorial curation, the algorithm is influenced by a user's behavior and by what they choose to follow — **t unlike other popular social networks (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/facebook-news-feed-change/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).*
"I see this as Reddit for the masses," Simon Khalaf, Yahoo's senior vice president of publishing products, told Mashable."It’s **t cultish, and this is the wedge that we believe Snapchat and Instagram has **t focused on. It's a very strong community feel." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/04/yahoo-newsroom-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Yahoo wants its readers to be more connected via its latest mobile app.
Called Yahoo Newsroom, the app offers a personalized feed of news stories. Rather than simply having articles ranked by clicks and views and by the company's own editorial curation, the algorithm is influenced by a user's behavior and by what they choose to follow — **t unlike other popular social networks (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/facebook-news-feed-change/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).*
"I see this as Reddit for the masses," Simon Khalaf, Yahoo's senior vice president of publishing products, told Mashable."It’s **t cultish, and this is the wedge that we believe Snapchat and Instagram has **t focused on. It's a very strong community feel." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/04/yahoo-newsroom-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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