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Re: What did he say? - Newsflashr and Spy revisited

Gal, founder of newsflashr.com — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:22:52 -0000

Charlie -- thanks ... been busy making steady improvements since our "news search" launch in August and "news portal" launch in Feb. Our other aggregation site for "all-in-one stock message boards" at InstantBull.com also got a big upgrade
-Gal, Founder of Newsflashr

Re: Faster than a Spidering Google - It’s newsflashr!

Gal, founder of newsflashr.com — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:25:04 -0000

Kind thanks Jorge –- really appreciate the cool review! A few notes:

- yep, a new business blogs category should be out next week ...

- the above snapshot is of our "feeds view", some visitors may prefer the alternative view we call "topics view" which displays headlines that match "hot news topics" really quickly – the switch is at top right

- as you point out, Alexa has its share of issues but for our purposes it does a good job of (1) independently determining page order in "feeds view" & (2) sorting results in our "topics view"

- at the top of newsflashr you can choose between 3 background color options (ie6 users need to upgrade to ie7 or firefox to see this feature), we’re still tweaking the look & feel based on feedback

- still working on the search feature for now

- there’s a bunch of stuff I update in our "about" section that tries to explain our advantages over other automated news aggregators, for example, next week we’ll be adding archives of news headlines so that users can go back in time and explore popular headlines from previous days

cheers,
Gal

Re: New Layout is Live

Gal, founder of newsflashr.com — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:00:10 -0000

looking sharp Jorge, good luck with it!

one note: as a coder, I've never been a fan of double negatives, this made me smile from your comments below ...
"If you wish to unsubscribe to this thread, please uncheck the box on the left."

-Gal

Re: In A Pathetic Attempt To Get More Clicks, Yahoo! Now Hides Date/Time Stamps On News, Complain!

Gal, founder of newsflashr.com — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:54:52 -0000

Tim --

The thing about sites like Yahoo and Google News is that you don't know WHY certain headlines make it to the top of their news pages ... which could lead to biases / corruption ... that's the #1 problem we've solved with our new, fully automated system, news headlines make it to the top of the news page based on the sheer volume of keywords found in headlines (gathered from all the most credible news sources).

http://www.newsflashr.com ... news headlines WITH the timestamp :)

In effect this is the "collective intelligence" of all the news editors ... our friend, Andrew Horowitz, likes to call this the "collective stupidity", but as mentioned, these are the most credible news sources that we're linking to!

Anyways, didn't you once tell me you're not into news?
-Gal