October 30, 2007
The Fabulous Newser
Newser — an Online News Service from HighBeam Research and Michael Wolff — Debuts Today Business Wire via Google News (Oct 30)
Newser a fabulous online news service is out of beta and nearly at full operation. "On a 24-7 basis, Newser locates and links to the best and most up-to-date news stories, video, audio and photos from vast news resources across the Web — and supplies concise, punchy summaries."
Newser was good in beta and is better now due to some new features:
+ news filters - slider bar to adjust from hard to soft news.
+ story summaries
+ audio and video links
+ topic threads - later users will be able to create their own threads. See all current topics on the thread index page.
+ widgets - "Widgets for iGoogle, RSS feeds, and alerts, plus tools allow users to post Newser news to Facebook, del.icio.us, Newsvine, StumbleUpon, etc."
+ access to HighBeam archives
When you first visit Newser, adjust the sliders to the kind of news you want to see - hard news (serious) or soft (entertainment or personal), number of stories on the front page.
If you register you'll be able to save your customized settings and also create your own Thread pages when it becomes available.
Next find the threads you want to follow - for example, Going Green under Business or In Vino Veritas under Science and Health. There are 9 broad topical areas with sub-topics or threads. You can subscribe to feeds for these threads adding them to whatever feed reader you use - iGoogle, my Yahoo page, Google Reader, Bloglines etc.
Newser lists its top 100 sources. Globe and Mail is the only Canadian source on the list. There are several from the UK (Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Economist) and one from Germany (Der Speigel)
People in the US can set their city by zip code.
Posted by Gwen at October 30, 2007 11:37 AM