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The Emergence of XYDO

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by Eric | Feb 14, 2011, 9:37am EST

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Team XYDO has been hard at work on XYDO, our drive toward reinventing News on a truly social level. After crawling out of our bat cave of over 9 months of development, we are pleased to introduce you to XYDO.

We all know there is a place on the web to buy books, shoes, do searches — but what about news? What if there was a place to get the best news content, all 100% curated by real users? And even better, what if there was a way to get that news via the web, twitter, or the many reader apps, including Flipboard?

Introducing XYDO. If you have not yet signed up for the beta invite, you should. Xydo needs you, and I think you will find very quickly — you need XYDO.

XYDO takes news feeds from all over the world, combines them with your social graph, and then links that to all the hottest content flowing from twitter and other sources. It’s totally free, fast and amazing in it’s discovery abilities. XYDO is so much more than just reading the news, XYDO is all about “you” shaping the news.  XYDO cuts through the noise and delivers a highly tuned signal.

XYDO keeps you up to date and totally informed with a powerful notification engine, and a complete mail/inbox system. So… Give it a go. We would love your feedback.

As a reader of the Roachpost, signup and we will make sure to get you in quickly. Also, please do share your invite via both Twitter and Facebook.

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We have some really exciting news to share later today.. But hey, that’s for a later post. The media is discovering our little secret…

Come on in.

We’re currently recruiting beta testers for our new startup — XYDO, a new and engaging way to get news and information from people you trust. If that sounds interesting to you, leave your name and email address and we’ll shoot you an invitation!

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  • Msigwald

    Eric,
    I’ve been using XYDO for some days now, and even though it works great and the UI is really slick, I dont find much difference with other social media sites like Reddit. Am I missing something?

  • http://roachpost.com/ Cameron Brain

    Hey – Great question and glad to hear you’re finding XYDO works well!

    RE your question, I’d start by asking are you finding the same content on XYDO as you do on Reddit or Digg? I’d venture to say the answer is no, especially if you’ve spent a good amount of time on XYDO. We created XYDO b/c we didn’t find these and other social news sites were delivering what we were looking for: meaningful news and information. Not that their bad or don’t serve a niche, it’s that they don’t deliver everything that we (and we believe other people) have been looking for.

    At a more structural level, sites like Reddit and Digg require users to submit links that other users vote on. When both those sites launched (’05 and ’04 respectively) the “social graph” wasn’t even in our web lexicon; Twitter didn’t exist and Facebook was still college-only. Fast forwarding to today and unlike these/other sites, XYDO taps the content that’s being shared by people (some you know, some you don’t) on Twitter, and soon Facebook. To put a point on it, Twitter and Facebook are where the action is, which is why they serve as XYDO’s primary sources of content.

    Hope this helps to clarify things. I promise you this: continue using XYDO and you’ll find it delivers more and more with every visit.

    -Cameron
    Co-Founder

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