The ambitious site includes blog entries, videos, feeds of all articles concerning Rose, merchandise and charity information, even a list of his favorite music.
But in Pipes' case, the app isn't about offering you bite-sized summaries, but instead provides feeds of popular articles on the subject matter at hand, as well as tweets, and even the item's Wikipedia page, for reference.
Pipes works instead by helping you to find and follow your interests, and then turns those selections into feeds of popular articles on the subject matter at hand, whether that's an ongoing news event or even a company name, like "Apple".
Both are stripped-down feeds of news stories and articles, punctuated by photographs and the occasional Twitter post.
You then get a feed of articles in the News app and in Spotlight.
Once you sign up, you type in the topic you want to track, and then Ensembli uses artificial intelligence software to generate a feed of articles about that keyword.
The podcasts are powered by SpokenLayer, a company that has developed a service that quickly turns a publishers' RSS feed of articles into audio recordings that can be distributed anywhere – in iTunes, on SoundCloud, on the web, or any other audio platform.
A big part of the front page is the news feed of articles from around the web, and with the redesign, Yahoo is introducing a couple of ways to personalize the content — it starts out as a generic feed, but the site learns more about your interests based on what you click on, and the stories that get surfaced in your feed will start to adjust accordingly.
That meant a media giant such as Viacom drew far more people to a Live Story about the MTV Video Music Awards than it has to its daily-updated MTV feed of articles on Discover.
