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New personalised news stream service | Engineers who had previously worked for respected tech firms Amazon and Microsoft,
have now created a new personalised news stream service that would challenge social
networking giant Facebook's 'news feed' feature. The new service named Wavii,
which is offered via the web or as a smartphone app, searches the net, including
tweets, news stories and blogs, to offer a customised feed. According to The BBC,
the new service is likely to compete with Facebook's news feed, prompting speculation
that it could become a takeover target. While Facebook's feed is mainly based
on status updates and content shared by users, Wavii highlights what's happening
in the world at large by creating personalised news streams based on data taken
from across the web. Adrian Aoun, Wavii's founder and chief executive, said that
his service offers a more complete experience. "Facebook is aggregating all this
structured data about your friends, and we are aggregating all this structured
data about the world - the other half that Facebook doesn't have," the report
quoted him, as saying. "We are looking at everything and mapping it into story
types. We try to look for patterns," he added. According to the report, Wavii
detects users' likes and interests based on their previous Facebook activity and
by asking them to select at least 12 topics or people of interest. These range
from celebrities and politicians to business acquisitions and gadgets. |
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