Rootly.com - All the News Right at your Fingertips

Rootly is an upgraded news aggregator that keeps your news fresh in real-time. When you create an account, the stories displayed become fully customizable. You can have as many different tabs of the news broken down into whatever ways you want it. Tabs can be created based on different categories, keywords, and/or custom feeds. If you have other friends using Rootly, you can check out the way they organize their news and what stories they´ve found important, and they can check out yours. Bookmarking your favorite stories is also a possibility. With all of this customization, you can also create your own personalized widget to forecast whatever news is important to you. One of the features that is cool is if you´re checking out the various news links and one of your friends has bookmarked a particular story, that story´s headline will come up in orange, versus blue, to make it stand out, so that you know what the people you keep in touch with are finding interesting and relevant. So if you´re looking for a place to keep up to date on the news items important and interesting to you, check out Rootly.

“Rootly is a news aggregator, we basically syndicate news content from many news sources and bring them together and display them to you under various categories. But that"s not it, using Rootly, you can fully customize your news, and see exactly the news that you"re interested in, as well as share news with friends on the website, bookmark news items, keep track of what your friends are reading, etc. The website amazingly keeps updating itself on the clock.”

They have a great amount of customization and have really improved the look and feel of their site with this recent relaunch. Users will find using this site helpful in filtering the news to only the stories they are interested in. They are more social compared to other news providers, which seems to be a key aspect to the latest web 2.0 sites.

Will people prefer this way to get their news, or something with a few more pictures and content all on one page, like Newsvine?