Pulls in feeds from blogs and Twitter as well as traditional news sources.
UK startup Broadersheet has been showing off its news aggregation application at the Diving With Dolphins conference in Cambridge.
Initially available as an iPhone app, it will provide users with a personalised feed of news stories from commercial media, while also pulling in relevant feeds and posts from blogs and Twitter.
“With Broadersheet you can set the news agenda, selecting stories that are of interest to you, which might not reach the front-page of the broadsheets," says co-founder Peter Clark.
"When you register for the service, Broadersheet analyses your profiles on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, and works out your areas of interest. The very first Broadersheet e-paper that you receive will already have some level of personalisation."
Users will also be able to write comments about the stories they read, which will then be accessible to other users of the app. Stories can also be shared via Twitter and Facebook.
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One interesting point is that the Broadersheet app updates once a day at a time specified by the user - it's like a digital newspaper in that sense, rather than a real-time news service. This model also means it's readable offline.
"Rolling news is all very well, but one of the advantages of a fixed time of delivery is that it allows the dust to settle on the events of the last 24 hours," says Clark.
"There is time to check the accuracy of the story and allow journalists and interested parties to offer some analysis, which makes for deeper and more interesting reading."
Although designed for iPhone initially, the company plans to expand to other smartphones later.
