Trove Rethinks Social News Discovery

Trove, the social news discovery app first created by the Washington Post's digital team, relaunched a completely overhauled suite of iOS apps Wednesday.

The app's concept is similar to news aggregation apps like Zite and Flipboard in that it provides users with curated stories based specific topics. (A "trove" is a curated list of stories based around a single topic.)

But unlike these apps, Trove doesn't rely on algorithms to predict relevant stories. Instead, each topic is managed by an individual curator who hand-picks each story.

The goal, says CEO Vijay Ravindran, is to reduce signal noise and help readers find all the stories they care about. Read more...