Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Newgie - Ranking news to bring you what you want

Newgie.com is all about bringing you the news that you and others are interested in most based on a unique ranking system that they employ. Typically, most people had to rely on the media providers for this. We had to rely on them providing us with news stories that we were interested and also to decide which of those stories are important enough to "make the front-page".

Newgie.com approaches this process in a different way and it lets us the reader, determine which stories are the most Âimportantt & news worthy”. The news still comes from the same sources that people are used to using, but instead of viewing the news as provided by the media, we the Newgie user can view the news based on “newsiness”. This "newsiness" is determined by our fellow Newgie.com users. By focusing on normalmmal routines and actions that people use when they read the news, Newgie concentrates on their interest in the story. The desired result should be that the Newgie user can easily find the news stories that are the most interesting, current, and of course the most important from a new worthy stand point.

Personally I think this system has some great merit. When ever I go to another "big time" news media site, I get what they think I want to see. At Newgie, I can get what we all are actually interested in, by using the methods they have developed. The site is very well laid out and easy to navigate. Signing up is a breeze and the RSS feeds are very simple to subscribe to and you can get what you are looking for and what is important to be reading.


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