Filip Brož As a journalist, I have to be in the loop all the time. I scroll through Twitter and various news feeds several times a day. To simplify the whole process, I use RSS readers, for example the Feedly application, but recently I also got the Czech news application Tapito, which until September was only known to Android users. I thought I'd give her a chance and she's not doing bad at all except for some minor mistakes.
Unlike foreign applications, Tapito focuses only on Czech news. Every day, the application passes through RSS channels a total of 1 open online sources, which include news portals, magazines, blogs, and YouTube. The application then analyzes six thousand articles, assigns keywords to them, and sorts them into 100 categories and more than 22 subcategories.
Custom articles
This in itself is not that surprising or unique. The magic of Tapita lies in the evaluation of the reader's priorities and the subsequent serving of tailored articles. Simply put, the app tries to offer you content that you are likely to be interested in. In addition to the automatic algorithm, you can also "like" each article, thereby signaling to the application that you like similar articles. In practice, however, it still doesn't work 100 percent. I deliberately tried to keep my fingers crossed for a few days and read only articles in the field of technology and computers, and yet the main selection showed me, among other things, mundane events from news websites.
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However, in defense of the developers, I have to admit that the offered portfolio is really rich. In addition, there are also local diaries and filtering of news from individual districts, although even this function is not yet 100% complete. When I ticked the box that I wanted to receive news from Vysočina, Tapito did not include a single one in my selection during the entire testing period. These algorithms still need to be worked on.
Tapito can also save individual articles for later and then view them in offline mode. The application can also select articles that could overlap in content, thus preventing duplication. "If several media outlets write about the same topic, only the article that is more successful in terms of the number of shares, comments and likes will be displayed. The other articles will then be offered below the text of the article in the They also wrote about it section," says Tomáš Malíř, CEO of TapMedia, which is behind the application.
The application itself is clear and divided into several areas. In the bottom menu, for example, you can choose the item Resources. Here you can select only the servers you want to monitor from individual categories and subcategories. You can also easily pin them to the bookmarks hidden under the row symbol in the upper left corner. This way you can quickly get to your favorite website. You can also search and filter articles in Tapit. There is also the possibility of adding your own resources.
Tapito is a free download on the App Store and for now only for iPhone. Except for minor errors in message filtering and the not flawless Tapito auto-recommendation system works reliably. The advantage of the application is the focus on the local market, which many users may welcome. There are more similar news applications, but they are often foreign titles, which mainly bring foreign content with them. Tapito is also planning to expand in the future, but for now it works purely for Czech resources.
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Storify clone?
It's strange that here the app has a full 5 stars, but in the app store (US) it only has a 1 star rating. :-) And I'm not surprised at all. It looks smart, but it offers at least dozens of resources that are completely out of line. Even if I turn those sources off, it still forces them on me. What is the use of information from regional newspapers in Bohemia for a person from Moravia? They won't make a hole in the world with this.
Now I played with her for a while and even though I clicked on what I was interested in, it still filled me with articles that were out of place - she went away.
Biased and probably paid... Or the author just didn't even try :P
The application is great, I also had problems at the beginning, but now it shows exactly what I want. You have to click on the resources at the bottom, then E.g. But you can't mark the messages with a whistle on the right, but click on them and select the frame that interests you and so on for everything and then the whistle app is great, only a widget would be great like they have on Android
Ha ha, I spent tens of minutes on this and it was completely useless. In addition to being insanely tedious, it's also broken because it still forces me to do things I've unsubscribed from. It's a fart, thrown away.
It's stupid what I have set up, I can't get anything more from the news, I only have Pilsen Region and crime fiction, then I have games, sports, everything I want, and I put Edna series on there and everything is great, see screenshots https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/135ba57dfc011b701d27de2760362ac382f74cde0e1b8d28e21c2a93bcd40341.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/651d5c0d2e65a12c2690f6256eea0ce99e10d00d0ff7fb0c7fb096d088541145.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/88cd4bb90c4031a6cbd8cef8b10ba9e22b3f4c02c61067eb6fe78805ae3fc50b.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f7cdd23c551483d2e7302ad9ad8119b42d720c6bf561dcd2c1d3a3fdc3e28de4.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6045dfd9b7128939dc4ec7425afe632a3c0308c907a15e6c7c29287d6b7e7981.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/472d9101ec0784a9d20740160852b7f88957f5a86c53f2fc7761c9155fafab8a.png
It doesn't force me to do anything I don't want, it's a fact in the settings, I also created complex folders, etc. but that was for HOV,,, tried it as I wrote and it's great
You're probably the only one. I spent maybe half an hour in the setup, turned everything off with exceptions, and there's still a ton of stuff. Maybe I'll give it a chance when they come up with the fact that I can turn on whatever I want. Not with this variant - we'll turn on the clouds for you, and now you play with it for half an hour before you turn it into something usable. Until then, they can shove it…
Don't let this MRDKA cross my threshold. Terrible app.
It sucks on the iPad