XYDO, Web social network for news, brings daily, custom sticky notes to your Inbox (invites)

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Where do you get your news (TechCrunch, of course)? Some of you may be familiar to the tactile experience of newsprint, ink on my fingers, but chances are that your news consumption is largely online — or on a mobile device. But thanks to content fire hose, which is the Internet, there are a lot of irrelevant junk floating around out there, and thus focus digital readers and content distributors has improved filters, aggregators and readers of this channel noise in the signal.

Whether your go to resource for real-time news will be Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds, or TechMemes the world we all are looking for simple, curator, and social, way to use content from the sites we believe — as we would like to, but not so frequently visit.

XYDO, run, which began in May and raised $ 1.25 from EPIC ventures and many of the angels in June, hopped in the space of social news, user experience, which combines the best parts of sites like Digg, and Hacker News in an effort to serve you with relevant, curator and social news from top content houses.

XYDO met with early success (over 750000 unique visitors in August only) from this very idea: he wanted to be news, which effectively prioritizes content that really matters to you. Firstly, it does so through its Web platform. But what if we don't want to click over XYDO.com each time we want to get the latest news?

To expand its mission news personalization and try to hit the user with a virtual version of rolled up newspaper directly at home, launching today announces the launch of XYDO brief, which seeks to deliver a personalized and relevant news based on the user's social interactions, networks, and traces all email, place they may constitute at least once a day.

News by email? And this is nothing new, you might say. And you'd be wrong. But XYDO hopes to offer a value proposition and an opportunity to rethink that position, combing your social network to ensure a truly just and real-time Web method to get the news through the Inbox. A brief XYDO uses the same social, sourcing mixed with actual human curation techniques that it uses its flagship product.

Each piece of content that enters the system (from more than 100000 content sources) is scored based on the recommendations of its launch 2 million + contributors and curators. Using the secret sauce of social network aggregation and prioritization, mixed with crowdsourced Conservancy, XYDO serves its users in between personalized News 10-12 in each email is passed these guidelines have been tested to ensure social news you get in your Inbox you want to see news.

The default value for the XYDO a brief — one message per day, but users can navigate to and select the different categories of explosions (whether "technology" or "policy"), they would get, as well as how many of these notes they wish to receive, and what time of day. For those who live on the wire this seems very similar; This e-mail version widely available.

Thus, for those of us who in one way or another to spend all day in our mailboxes, being able to tinker with a simple service, which you configure in an attempt to provide a simple way to read news without having to go look for our social networks and favorite content sources — is of paramount importance.

Also note: XYDO provides readers with TechCrunch with 500 exclusive (and free) should check their new product. To test the service for yourself, click here. Then come on back and let us know what you think.

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Custom Labs receives $ 250 K to turn to lead a healthy life in the game

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Y Combinator funded health infection and health month teamed up this week to form one big health focused startup called habit Labs. Infection of health product, Imoveyou.com was closed down in the merger, and instead the founders Jen Mccabe and Benson Buster will focus on their health month site and building is still in stealth habit of AI.

In addition to early seed funding health crisis marks new laboratories habit run got $ 250 K in angel funding from Dave Mcclure, founders co-op, Rick Webb from the barbarian and apricot capital. Custom Labs is located in the same space as Mindbloom and Limeade.

Benson is best known for his relationship with 43Things, site objectives in social life, which ultimately ended up selling on Amazon. So there's plenty of 43Things influence per month, where users can register, choose three sanitary standards that they want to follow (as "eat more Greens"), and then those they follow them or not answering message day shift.

Health month use gamification to instill actual behavioural changes: the participants start the game with 10 points and lose points if they violate one of their rules. However, because the premise of the site is dependent on social proof users can ask for points and earn points from the other users with the ultimate goal of ending the month with 10 original points. There is also an opportunity to compete in the team, which could be interesting for startups.

McCabe said me that health month site currently has 45 K users, and that between 7-12% of them have decided to go to the premium version, which allows for more than three rules, at $ 5 per month or $ 50 per year.

McCabe expects AI Labs habit (what she calls the "Health Month on steroids") product to deploy gradually over the next six months. The company plans to use the money to grow their team and focus on their mobile product since version HTML5 health month first.

Month of medico-social game around better health habits. This new game, which takes place every month, and the players to set their own rules and then try to ...

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