New way to filter out only news you want – and EKCKO is just the start

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EKCKO-ScreenshotTrying to filter out the news that interests you from the torrent that doesn’t is becoming a serious problem these days.

Monitoring multiple news sites every day takes substantially more time than most of us have available.
Current RSS readers consolidate your news feeds, but still leave you with mountains of information to sift through to find what you want. Many of them have tried to solve this problem but have not succeeded in giving users the control that they need to effectively manage this ever-rising flood of information.
Now there is a new product on the market that could turn this tide. While EKCKO News incorporates a host of powerful features, this useful tool is much more than just an ordinary newsreader.
Using some smart technology, EKCKO monitors thousands of global news feeds and then filters out only those articles that interest you. It does this by delivering only the news that matches the keywords that you have chosen.
It literally takes seconds to create NewsRooms on any topic that you want to follow. You can create as many NewsRooms as you like and EKCKO then fills each one with relevant articles.
Of course, you can stream an entire feed/s into your NewsRoom, as with a traditional newsreader. However, EKCKO gives you the control to stream only the news that you want.
Browsing through all the articles within a particular feed is likely to become a thing of the past.
To further organize your news feeds, you can sort your NewsRooms into customized sections like Sport, Politics, Italian Recipes or Siamese Cats, allowing you to create your own personalized newspaper based around your interests.
NewsRooms set up by other EKCKO users can be added to your news mix at the click of a button and you can even publish your own articles. Just imagine the newspaper you want and you can create it on EKCKO without breaking a sweat.
One of the great features of EKCKO is the ability to easily bookmark and save any webpage that you come across. Whether you’re doing research, compiling information or simply want to save an article to read later, you can add it to your NewsRooms in seconds using a simple browser button.
You can browse through curated content added by other users or simply search the EKCKO database of articles sourced from thousands of news feeds.
This content can then be discussed, in private or public, on EKCKO’s built in discussion platform and easily shared to all the main social media networks.
While EKCKO already has more features than many other newsreaders, a recent comment by co-founder Adrian Miljak hints that this project is only getting started.
“This is just the beginning. We’re building an integrated platform that will put our users in complete control of all their information. More features and functionality are coming soon,” he said.
For more information go to www.ekcko.com

 

2 thoughts on “New way to filter out only news you want – and EKCKO is just the start”

  1. If I may add to that discussion.

    mention.com is another but it scours the web for mentions of content based on keywords.

    Pocket (http://getpocket.com/) is very similar in that you add content you want to read later but a new feature also allows you to feed RSS directly to it as well.

    My favourite is https://feedly.com/ and use it daily with Pocket and a very nice app built for Pocket called Lisgo – listen to your content.

    All three allow me to consume content like a boss.

    Check out some of my articles here:
    http://www.connectfx.com.au/consuming-content-like-boss/
    http://www.connectfx.com.au/enhance-productivity-read-later/

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  2. I just signed up to EKCKO and I must say that I’m impressed.

    It’s so easy to create Newsrooms filled with articles on things that you actually want to read about, instead of being fed what some website thinks you want. Just add keywords!

    I’m so tired of scanning through hundreds of articles every day that I have absolutely no interest in reading. Thankfully, with EKCKO I don’t have to any more.

    The fact that you can use your Newsrooms to bookmark articles and do research is just the cherry on the cake for me.

    Try it out. For a site that has just launched I looked forward to what they will bring out next.

    Have a look at my profile http://www.ekcko.com/News/Millie

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