News360 app is great

[Gutenberg]

I am enjoying the News360 app, which offers précis of news stories from all over the world with links to the original stories on their original websites. There is no political slant as far as I can tell. It's available free for iPhone and iPad at the App Store. It might also be available foe Mac; I didn't check. give it a try.

[mrbigstuff]

By analyzing, with your permission, the data in your Facebook, Twitter, Evernote and Google Reader accounts, and looking at how you use News360....

...and with a Russian address. Hmm.

[deckeda]

Hey thanks for the recommendation. I'm not a news junkie, which may explain why things like this only hold my interest for a little while. But I keep looking for something compelling nonetheless.

I also have Pulse News, Flipboard and the NPR apps on my iPad. News360 looks interesting and seems less clunky than Pulse and less froo-froo than Flipboard.

You mentioned being curious about the edititorialization of it. Seems that like Pulse its journalistic intentions derive not from human curation but from a technical analysis that aims to perform the same duty in an egalitarian manner.* That can probably be fine so long as the reader always knows (on their own, or ahead of time) what the source is about. On the other hand it'll probably get a lot of readers to see sources they otherwise probably wouldn't bother to try, so that's good. Appropriately, this is in their Technology section.

* Correction/clarification: I don't know that Pulse works that way. It strikes me more as merely a collection of links, with some contract agreements with some sites to include their links. Flipboard is similar, except that their included content is geared more toward simply making the layout look right in the app. News360 seems to be different in that they also have contracts for source inclusion by default but additionally use proprietary tech to find what's hopefully relevant or important.

Of course, all of this is skirting around the main issues of journalism. Someone has to still gather and write the stories, and nothing about News360 or similar apps deals with any aspect of that.