Why Raw Signal is better than current RSS Readers?

Do you still use an RSS reader?

Raw Signal is trying to provide an evolution in today's basic RSS readers. You can think of us as a RSS reader with a brain.

We're here to save you time, help you find interesting information, and prevent information overload. Here's some examples of where Raw Signal is better than your basic RSS Reader.

1. Highlight Interesting Information
   Our algorithms and editors go through thousands of articles to find the most interesting at any given time. This saves you time, so you're only presented with highly engaging content.
   
   
2. Remove Duplicate Entries
   Sometime the same article or very similar articles are presented at multiple sites. We work to eliminate duplication, so you only read about each topic once. This also means that if there is a topic you're not interested in, you won't see it multiple times across all the RSS feeds you are following.
   
   
3. Discover new sites
   With basic RSS readers you have to find interesting feeds and manually add them. With Raw Signal, our algorithm, editors, and community work together to find interesting sites for you.
   
   
4. Ability to see the conversation
   We provide a central location to see how a topic is being talked about across multiple sites. If you're interested in a topic, this allows you to drill deeper and see multiple perspectives quickly.
   
   
5. Accessible Anywhere
   Since Raw Signal is a web-based solution, you can bring your reading anywhere. You can start reading at home, continue reading at work, and even finish reading on your mobile phone on the way home.
   

Anyways, those are some quick reasons where Raw Signal provides an advantage over your basic RSS Reader.

Save Time. Read more.

Welcome to the next generation of RSS Readers.
http://www.rawsignal.com

Top 5 Reasons To Submit Your Site to Raw Signal

We're not Google. We don't have thousands of computers processing the web. As a result, we may not find all the interesting blogs and websites about a category, but we'll sure try our best!

Sometimes, we'll need site owners to submit their sites to our algorithm. We decided to create a top 5 list on why you should do that.

Top 5 Reasons To Submit Your Site to Raw Signal

1. More traffic for you
   Our goal is to help our users find interesting information within a category fast. When a user sees something interesting, they will click through to your website. That means more traffic for you.
   
   
2. Better SEO
   We provide links to your site which should increase your page rank. That means Google and other search engines will consider your site as more of an authority. That means more search engine traffic for you.
   
   
3. Get exposed to new users
   The reality is that there's a lot of websites on the web. As a user, there's no way to find them all. Our site allows users to become exposed to new and interesting sites. That means more unique users for you.
   
   
4. Users will come back more often, and read more
   Since we make it easy for users to find interesting information, their satisfaction should go up. Now that finding interesting information is no longer frustrating and "work", they should be spending more time reading news. That means more returning users for you.
   
   
5. The ability to participate in the conversation
   Our site allows users to see the conversation or pulse around a topic. We provide multiple perspectives, which means your ideas and view points can now be included in the conversation.
   

Anyways, I hope these are some kick butt reasons to submit your website information to our algorithm. The bottom line is we provide you more traffic.

Submit Your Site

Reading Local News Is Scary

So, I was checking up on the local news channels to make sure they were working, and I realized . . . local news is really scary. I'm not sure if its the algorithm leaning towards scary news, or if there's just a lot of scary stuff happening locally.

Top News for San Francisco
Child found in hotel fountain is clinging to life
http://sf.rawsignal.com/

Top News for New York City
Two men accused in subway imam attack hit with hate crime charges
Woman Found Dead In Swanky Soho House Hotel Bathtub
http://nyc.rawsignal.com/

Top News for Los Angeles
Rose Bowl stabbings lead to felony charges against 3 brothers
http://la.rawsignal.com/

Top News In Chicago
Northbrook high school student charged with bomb threat
http://chicago.rawsignal.com/

Top News in Boston
3rd Man Held In Quadruple Slaying
http://boston.rawsignal.com/

I mean seriously . . . I wouldn't leave the house at night!

Luckily, Seattle's top news item was much lighter. Thank You Seattle!
Giant observaton wheel coming to Seattle Center next year
http://seattle.rawsignal.com/

Vroom, Vroom. Here comes the Autos Channel

Ok, so my friend Jason was telling me he liked cars. I started thinking. Cars might be fun.

Maybe, someday I can sell the clunker I drive, and maybe . . . just maybe get a new car.

A boy can dream right?

Anyways, for all you car lovers out there, we've create a channel just for you!

Care and Automobile News
http://autos.rawsignal.com/

Should be fun to see how our algorithm starts ranking car news. Not sure it'll work, so the team might have to make some tweaks.

So the world is more than Seattle and San Francisco???

Ok, being techies, we didn't realize that.

We really built these local channels for ourselves.
San Francisco - http://sf.rawsignal.com/
Seattle - http://seattle.rawsignal.com/

But we kept getting funny emails.
"I get why you guys have Technology, Sports, and Politics, but Seattle seems really random"
- Michelle S.

Ok, we'll stop being selfish. We've put more local channels into the algo, and as the algorithm learns how to rank the news from these channels, we'll release them.

Here's some that the algo has learned pretty well:

Los Angeles News - http://la.rawsignal.com/
New York City News - http://nyc.rawsignal.com/
Chicago Local News - http://chicago.rawsignal.com/
Boston Local News - http://boston.rawsignal.com/

LA has some really crazy stuff going on lately.

Anyways, let us know what you think, and which cities you'd like to see!

You wanted more enteretainment, You Got It!

So we had our good ole celebrity gossip channel:
http://celeb.rawsignal.com/

But you asked why isn't there one about movies or tv?

Well, we're always up for new ideas for new channels. Let's see if our algo can learn to rank these categories.

Television - http://tv.rawsignal.com/
Movies - http://movies.rawsignal.com/
Music - http://music.rawsignal.com/

What do you think?

More Sports, Better Sports

Ok. A few of you really liked what we did with the sports channel, but you wanted more.

So, since we're in the business of making people happy, we though why not.

Football - http://football.rawsignal.com/
Basketball - http://basketball.rawsignal.com/
College Football - http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/
College Basketball - http://collegebb.rawsignal.com/
Baseball - http://baseball.rawsignal.com/

Let us know what you think of these new categories.