Me, News and Newsvine
Eventhough I’m not as much a news junkie as a weather one, I can’t help but love Newsvine (a lovely name for such a site, don’t you think?).
What struck me first was its lovely, clean, CSS-based design. I had already approved its nice and minimal logo, which I love. And of course, the lovely shades of green. Green is a tricky colour, one would have thought that a site using so much of dark greens and grays would be boring to stare at. Wrong! It’s refreshing, and it gives you the feeling that you’re reading newspaper excerpts in an old library, with those old green lamps over your head.
Then it’s the functionalities : name one news application functionality that Newsvine does not support. Tags, blogs, real-time news contribution, everything. I already liked NowPublic.com (which recently had a redesign - still using tables, though) but Newsvine is another league all on its own.
Call me nitpicking, but there was a tiny thing I didn’t like : the hover effect on menu options. Don’t ask me why! It just makes me think that all of a sudden, the lovely gradient gray background disappeared, and a flat green one took its place. Boy, my fantasy is on its highs today.
All in all, after its recent public launch, Newsvine managed to fit in my already bloated daily surfing schedule. And that’s an achievement on its own!
