NewsNow goes mobile

News aggregation site NewsNow, which includes articles from newspapers, magazines and TV news, has launched a mobile version, according to a press release.

The service, which runs using mobile browser Opera, aggregates around 200,000 articles a day, organising these into 2,500 subject-specific feeds.

Chairman of NewsNow Publishing, Struan Bartlett, describes the tool as a ‘killer app’ for mobile phones.

Tags: mobile phones, news aggregation site, NewsNow Publishing

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Poynter: Making online news more relevant with Silobreaker

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Mashable: Reddit get a redesign

Social news aggregation site Reddit has today gone live with a redesign.

The revamp appears to make parts of the site more visible to its users by bringing some features to its navigation bar that weren’t there previously.

Most controversial news – those getting good and bad reviews – has been moved here to make it easier to access.

Links for creating your own Reddit and submitting links are also easier to find.

Users can now easily customise the site by selecting topics they want to have on their own home page.

Tags: Linking, news aggregation site

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