Brainstorm 2010/News and Planet

Image:Ambox_notice.png
This article is continued discussion from the Maemo brainstorm 2010
Please see the Brainstorm 2010 agenda for more.


News and Planet

What can we do to improve the news experience for casual Maemo followers?

Things being worked on right now:

  • Better abstracts, as the current text shortening system leaves too much of the story unshown
  • Reading blog comments through Planet, with blog systems that provide comment feeds

Longer-term ideas:

  • Adding more sources for news relevancy calculation: Twitter, Google realtime search, ...

The same Planet and Social News software will be also used on meego.com so advances in these areas will benefit both communities.