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Take your favorite light comm presence app—Twitter, of course—mix it up with Tweetscan, the real time search engine for Twitter, and throw in some Yahoo Pipes action and you get TweetWire, the first human filtered Twitter news service. It looks similar to any regular news aggregator, except that the links are picked by humans and not robots, which therefore makes for more interesting leads and stories. You’ve got four rudimentary categories—the 2008 Elections, Tech, Sports, and Celebrity. The twitter links to each story have been shortened using TinyURL. TweetWire also has links to...  read more
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Addictomatic is a site that allows you to keep up-to-date with the latest news, blog posts, videos and images by aggregating the best live sites on the web. After you have performed a search, you can personalize your results dashboard by moving around the source boxes. Once finished, you can bookmark this page and return to see your personalized results dashboard for that specific search. The Newsfix pages provide the latest headlines on topics like entertainment, politics, shopping, sports and more and you can customize these to only receive categories that are of primary interest to you. ... read more
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Hipolitical.com is a simple news aggregation site that scours the web for the latest breaking news in US politics and displays it in an easy-to-browse format. The top news from Daily KOs, digg Politics, the Drudge Report, Huffington Post, Technorati Politics and many other news feeds are included along with the blog sites from the leading Presidential candidates. No registration is required to get started so you can simply go to hipolitical.com anytime you want to check what’s going on in near real-time. The site does a good job of sitting on the fence by providing feeds from both the rig... read more
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Upon first entering Naubo.com, your initial observation might be that it has a strikingly similar appearance to Google News. In some ways, Naubo is very similar, in that its advanced search engine scours the internet looking for the latest breaking news. One of the major differences between the two services is that Naubo is completely focused on the tech space, making it a key resource for all the latest breaking tech news. Also of notable difference is the fact that the Naubo engine searches for both regular news channels and blogs, giving you unparalleled perspective. Lastly Naubo has inc... read more
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TruthFeeds is a news aggregator built using Feedables with specific focus on the truth about 911, the upcoming elections and the economy. However, much of the items on the site range a broader span of topics including entertainment, technology, and religion. Stories come from a variety of sources: Disinfo.com, Digg, TailRank, AlterNet.org, The Raw Story, and TruthOut among others. Mousing over any headline will get you more information about the story in a pop up box. If you click on the headline, Truthfeed will give you a brief synopsis along with a screen shot of the originating site. T... read more
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Created by a 22 year old law student in London, Techsted is a news aggregator which also doubles as a study of memes. Techsted searches the web for the latest tech related news, and ranks and rates the results using an algorithm. So you get stories about cable companies and Google, but unlike other news aggregators, Techsted tries to unearth the workings of memetrackers. It categorizes news stories into four main classifications: Inverted or unique stories, those not popular with the mainstream press, money or dealings, which has to do with acquisitions, fund raising and investments, launch... read more
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Those who follow technology know that the next big thing can surface anywhere and that it could be first published on a blog that nobody has ever heard of or a site that you just don’t have time to scan. Enter Techmeme, a site that promises to scan the internet and bring you all of these stories, no matter where they reside, in real time. News comes from a mix of industry insiders, passionate independents, and established journalists, allowing Techmeme to get the story out wherever it happens to appear and often days before it hits major sites that you may regularly surf. You can also rea... read more
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Wary of corporate owned media outlets broadcasting their own brand of news? If so, turn to NewsCloud, a news aggregator operated by you, and the web community at large. NewsCloud champions a free and open press. Readers from around the world can use the site to submit news stories that interest them. Besides submitting stories, members of the site can vote and comment on each item. Mousing over the more options link gives readers the opportunity to jump to the original source and to visit the contributor’s journal. The journals comprise all comments and posts submitted by a NewsCloud m... read more
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They say the world moves faster than it used to and when it comes to news, people are no longer content with traditional once-a-day publications. The news should be available in real-time since it is always occurring. Memeorandum, which focuses primarily on US politics and current affairs, auto-generates a news summary every 5 minutes. The sources are many, from media professionals to amateur bloggers and discussions are threaded. The page is well designed and user-friendly and provides users with the security that they are always up-to-date. By bringing all of this information to one cent... read more
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Gabbr is a social news site. Bloggers can submit their own stories and posts. Readers can sort through headlines culled from CNN, the beeb, Reuters and the AP. Everyone can discuss all the news and stories making rounds through the blogosphere and trad media outlets. Gabbr users can socialize via news threads and private messaging. They get their own profile pages which pull in their own media output from popular services such as Twitter, Youtube, and Shoutbox. Other features include tags, voting, feeds, and news aggregation. Topics are categorized at the top of the page for easier bro... read more
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Original Signal is a multilingual news aggregator, collecting the latest headlines from the spheres of media, technology, sports, entertainment, and web 2.0. There are two main displays. The homepage displays the best and most known blogs relating to the world wide web; featured blogs include Mashable, Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, and the Web 2.0 Show. There are also the single page aggregator pages which only list headlines for quick skimming. Tabs display your main categories at the top of the page. On the right hand side, you’ll find a selection of tools: stats display, share with frien... read more
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Want all your news in one location? eNewsc compiles the major headlines of the day in a centralized website. Users can select if they want to view US headlines, the top British stories, or popular Spanish articles. They can further specify national, world, business, sports, politics, and tech/ science stories. Finally, users can select to remove specific publications from the search results. What ensues is a daily overview of the current events in each country. Readers can click through the headline to access the source of the story, and only non-subscription articles are displayed.... read more
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