NEWS AGGREGATOR
We developed a smart news aggregator for Windows Phone & Windows 8 for the Swiss startup Newscron and in partnership with Microsoft Switzerland and DWB.
“Newscron, which started as a research project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, aimed at understanding how the amount of information affects users’ behaviour. As a part of the project, Zürich researchers developed their own mobile news aggregator app.”
Newscron is a smart news aggregator app that filters and groups all the articles with the same subject from all the publishers into one topic, so the user will not read the same article twice.
It also allows the user to fully customize the feeds, the countries and regions, languages and the frequence of categories and syncs all the preferences across devices.
Account & Sync
News Sources According to Country & Region
The packages containing countries and regions determine which news sources and topics are retrieved.
The user has the option to create an account or to login which allows synchronizing all the preferences.
Filtered & Grouped Articles into Topics
A News Timeline with Articles from Several Sources
articleS: The articles are sorted by date and can belong to different news sources from different countries.
languages: The two screenshots show different content languages: topics from the Business category from Germany, France, Spain.
Featured Topics
The most read or recommended topics.
Categories
Set the frequency of the categories available in the selected package.
News Sources
Newspaper and publications in the selected region.
Languages
The app is available in German, English, French and Italian languages.
