My friend asked me why he should submit news from different sources on the web to Siliconverge. It’s a good question - and here is my explanation to him.
There are literally hundreds of different places where news or latest articles related to semiconductor industry get published everyday. And it’s impossible to catch up with all these sources by a single human. So usually we limit the number of news sources we follow on daily basis. But, it’s not guaranteed that we will get the best or very useful news from these handful sources. In addition, all those sources are controlled by editors of respective news agencies so we still don’t get unbiased updates.
Democratizing the semiconductor news on the web
At Siliconverge.com, we are trying to democratize the way we consume semiconductor related news on the web. Our readers who follow different sources on the web, collectively follow hundreds of news sources. People who liked what they read on different sources submit those news or stories on Siliconverge for other people to discover it who usually don’t read news from those sources. Then other users on Siliconverge decide if they also liked that submitted story by voting it up. The more the number of votes, the better is the story. Such best stories get promoted to Popular News section on Siliconverge. So it becomes very easy for other readers to just read such best news voted by the community. At Siliconverge, we don’t have editors to control which news is best or not.
But what’s in it for me?
Another good question from my friend - what’s in it for me if I submit the news on Siliconverge?
He understood the importance of submitting the news that he liked for other people to discover. But he was not sure how he would be benefited from it?
Simple - you will also discover latest and greatest news submitted by other users. If all users work collectively to submit and vote best news on the web, then we all will get benefited by it. It’s the community working together for the benefits of the community. The way we just consume information on Wikipedia, there are enthusiastic people who are producing the content for us. Their motivation to produce content is, at one day, they will also be benefited by information which was produced by other suers. Similar concept can be applied to Siliconverge as well.
Snapshot
In short, at Siliconverge, we are trying to find the best signal related to semiconductor industry from other noise available on the web in the shortest available time. I hope saving time and finding quality stuff is a great incentive for you to explore and participate in the Siliconverge.