It’s a short piece that essentially tells us what films made the cut.įurther, and what I really like about what Yahoo has done here, is the related information at the end of the article.

For instance, the BAFTA film nominations came out this morning (with Gravity and 12 Years a Slave leading the pack).

That means you get more than just a standard article. As I discovered over the 24 hours of testing, there’s a few things that separate New Digest from the news aggregation pack that make it worth a download.įirst, news stories are “summarized” by a team at Yahoo.

Available only for iOS (so far) it’s a slick roll-up of the day’s top headlines. Yesterday CEO Marissa Meyer delivered a flashy keynote at CES which featured the launch of a new app called News Digest. It could end up being useful we'll just get through the entire Times front page, all our fave blogs, a few clips of The Daily Show, the remainder of the posts for the day and some Facebook posts, then check it out and let you know.Yahoo’s mobile push continues. It's currently available at the App Store. It's not personalized all users will see the same stories every day.

The app 'helps you get on with your life,' Mr. So they're hoping the News Digest, which consists of links curated by a mix of algorithms and human editors, will provide users with the sense of satisfaction that reading a newspaper does. What on God's green Earth is the point? Well, the folks at Yahoo figure reading news from the Internet or watching the news on TV is not as satisfying as reading a newspaper cover to cover, because there's no sense of accomplishment or completion. Quaintly, the aggregated missives will come in the morning and evening, 'in a rhythm that mimics the way people once read morning and afternoon newspapers,' Product Manager Nick D'Aloisio told the Verge in an interview.

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