{"id":156691,"date":"2023-01-31T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/instagrams-co-founders-introduce-a-new-social-appfor-news-reading"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:24:24","slug":"instagrams-co-founders-introduce-a-new-social-appfor-news-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/instagrams-co-founders-introduce-a-new-social-appfor-news-reading","title":{"rendered":"Instagram\u2019s co-founders introduce a new social app\u2026for news reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can lightning strike twice? That\u2019s apparently the question being raised today with the public introduction of the next social app built by Instagram\u2019s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The duo have launched a new venture to explore social apps, according to a report published in The Verge<\/a>, which includes the debut product Artifact<\/a>, a personalized news reader.<\/p>\n

The app itself is not yet publicly available but offers a waitlist where interested users can sign up. As described, it sounds like a modern-day twist on Google Reader, a long-ago RSS newsreader app that Google shut down back in 2013<\/a>. Except in this case, Artifact is described as a newsreader that uses machine learning to personalize the experience for the end user, while also adding social elements that allow users to discuss articles they come across with friends. (To be fair, Google Reader had a similar feature, but the app itself had to be programmed by the user who would add RSS feeds directly.) <\/p>\n

Artifact will first present a curated selection of news stories, The Verge\u2019s article notes, but these will become more attuned to the user\u2019s interests over time. Some of the articles will come from big-name publishers, like The New York Times, while others may be from smaller sites. Other key features will include comment controls, separate feeds for articles posted by people you follow alongside their commentary and a direct message inbox for discussing posts more privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can lightning strike twice? That\u2019s apparently the question being raised today with the public introduction of the next social app built by Instagram\u2019s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The duo have launched a new venture to explore social apps, according to a report published in The Verge, which includes the debut product Artifact, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}