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Show HN: newsola - news at a glance
First off, yes, it's very much a clone of Newsmap (www.newsmap.jp), but it's written in Javascript rather than Flash, so it works across most (all?) devices.
The tiling algorithm is my own and should work well even on small screens.
The news articles are sourced from the Google News RSS feeds.
- kirchhoff 15y agoFirst off, yes, it's very much a clone of Newsmap (www.newsmap.jp), but it's written in Javascript rather than Flash, so it works across most (all?) devices. The tiling algorithm is my own and should work well even on small screens. The news articles are sourced from the Google News RSS feeds.
- atlasom 15y agoWow, this is one of the best aggregaters I've seen in terms of style and delivery. Nice touches with the color coded sections. Do you aggregate this yourself or does it just crawl Google news?
- code177 15y agoHow is this not an exact clone of http://newsmap.jp http://newsmap.jp ?
- kirchhoff 15y agoI wrote the comment below when I submitted the article but strangely only I can see it: First off, yes, it's very much a clone of Newsmap (www.newsmap.jp), but it's written in Javascript rather than Flash, so it works across most (all?) devices. The tiling algorithm is my own and should work well even on small screens. The news articles are sourced from the Google News RSS feeds.
- read_wharf 15y agoVery nice. I see at the bottom you say "based on newsmap." Are you getting your data from them (which in turn aggregates google news), or is it just your design that's based on newsmap? I like your look better than newsmap, but newsmap has more news. This would be a cool way to view HN. I wonder if you could make it so you could give your site any aggregatable site, and see the map?
- kirchhoff 15y agoI scrape the Google RSS feeds myself. I've set it to only show news published in the last 8 hours, in order to limit the number of articles on screen. I plan to add HN & Reddit as sources.