Newsified
Hi, I'm Luke Stevens and Newsified is my project. Thanks for stopping by!
There are a few things I set out to achieve with Newsified:
- I wanted a central location where I could get a birds-eye view of popular social news sites (and Youtube for video) where I could quickly skim the 90% of popular content that isn't covered on their home page, once or twice a day, whilst preserving the content 'flavor' of each site
- I wanted to see what social news would look like in a news format rather than the typical top-down blog style
- Finally, I wanted a test bed to run some simple, multivariate, data-driven design experiments
I'll explain each of these aims in more depth below.
TechCrunch
Unlike similar services like popurls, Alltop and Loud3r,
Newsified presents the top content of various social news sites like
news articles instead of a simple list of links, with a headline on
top, short summaries if available and an indication of the original
source with icon and direct clickthrough. This enables you to get an
overview of what's popular on the internet across different categories,
all on a single page (which also means you'll be scrolling down quite a
bit).
Granted, Newsified isn't going to win freelance designer Luke
Stevens any prizes for innovation, but it's bound to be of interest to
those who like to stay on top of what's hot on the web, regardless of
what category it falls under.
