{"id":310,"date":"2007-05-09T21:45:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T04:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2020-09-26T20:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T03:49:44","slug":"newsvine-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/310\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsvine Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\" Newsvine \" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/newsvine.png\" alt=\" Newsvine \" width=\"186\" height=\"246\"\/><em>Newsvine<\/em> is a popular, user driven news site. It works a little like Digg in that stories are submitted and voted on by members. But Newsvine is much mellower and more focused than Digg. The site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\/_cms\/info\/codeofhonor\">Code of Honor<\/a> stresses respect for others, relevance and avoiding sensationalism. The code seems to be followed remarkably well making the site a fine online news source covering US and world news, sports, tech, business, health and entertainment. The site&#8217;s front page has top stories from all topic areas and there are also 17 separate category pages which function as category specific front pages.<\/p>\n<p>Newsvine has three different types of stories on the front page and topic specific pages;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wire service stories reproduced in their entirety on Newsvine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Seeded&#8221; stories which are user submitted (seeded) links to external sites. Seeded stories have a Newsvine launch page with a brief excerpt or synopsis by the user who submitted the story and then a link to the full story on the external site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Stories by Featured Writers which are user written articles published on Newsvine. These are like blog items with comments and the ability to read an archive of each writers items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The mobile edition of the Newsvine (<a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.mobi\/\">newsvine.mobi<\/a>) does a good job of presenting all the content of the PC site in a format that is easy to understand and navigate on a mobile device. Category selection is handled by a dropdown at the top of the page. The three types of Newsvine stories are clearly marked and delimited. Which is a good thing for users on a metered data plan, or with browsers that can&#8217;t handle full-web pages as the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Read Article<\/span> links on the Seeded story launch pages lead directly to full-web sites.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile usability is generally good but there are a couple of small issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Images on Newsvine.mobi are wider (250px) than most mobile device screens and will be truncated or resized by the browser. My phone&#8217;s browser can resize images on the fly but pages with images needing resizing load and scroll much more slowly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you go to Newsvine&#8217;s PC site with a mobile browser there is code that is supposed to redirect to the .mobi site. Unfortunately the code is JavaScript which, except for high-end smartphones and Opera Mini, mobile browsers don&#8217;t support so the redirection doesn&#8217;t work with the browsers that need it most. Go directly to newsvine.mobi to always get the mobile version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, Newsvine.mobi is a great edition to the the mobile web news universe. I think it compares very well with mainstream mobile news sites like Yahoo, the BBC Google News and the NY Times in timeliness, relevance and article quality.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added Newsvine.mobi to the News section of the Yeswap.com mobile portal and Wapreview Directory.<\/p>\n<p>Newsvine (cHtml) <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.mobi\/\">newsvine.mobi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Features: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/> Usability: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/cameronmoll.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/newsvine_goes_mobile\/\">Authentic Boredom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsvine is a popular, user driven news site. It works a little like Digg in that stories are submitted and voted on by members. But Newsvine is much mellower and more focused than Digg. The site&#8217;s Code of Honor stresses respect for others, relevance and avoiding sensationalism. The code seems to be followed remarkably well making the site a fine online news source covering US and world news, sports, tech, business, health and entertainment. The site&#8217;s front page has top &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/310\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21706,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/21706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}