Newspond - My New Favourite News Source
Move over Digg, Andrew just got a new best friend, Newspond!
Newspond is a new site for geeky news, like Digg used to be before it jumped shark, except there is no voting or editors, all of their news content is collected and aggregated from all the best news sites and then rated automatically by some clever algorithms.
I first heard about it on Techcrunch,it’s only a few days old but they seem to be getting a lot of interest and I can see why.
The first thing you notice about the site is the absolutely gorgeous interface, beautifully photoshopped and yet quite lighweight and fast loading too. Then there is the excellent use javascript and ajax to make the whole thing even smoother.
Pretty interfaces are great, but content is king and so far newspond has not disappointed. Tech, Apple and Gaming news all surfacing to the top as more sites and blogs report on a certain story. I’ve only really been following it for a day but already it’s pulled up a number of gems that Digg has so far failed to show me and without any of the rubbish that is becoming more common place.
The main thing that Newspond is lacking at the moment other good ways of getting the data out, I’m talking about RSS and APIs. They recently added a single RSS feed for the main news steam due to popular demand, hopefully they will add more soon, allowing users to consume how they like and build other applications to use the data or mix it up with other web services.
I can’t wait to see how this site grows and matures, especially how they decide to monetize it, hopefully without intrusive advertising.
Have you found a way to make the RSS feed show the full text - I can’t seem to do it
Ryan on February 27, 2008 1:53 pm
I agree with you on the design part. Chan Karunamuni is an absolute idol of mine and the way he uses lighting and texture in his designs is pure genius.
Dan Swiecki on March 2, 2008 10:46 pm