A new news aggregation service called Addictomatic has been released. You can enter any topic in addictomatic such as “google†or “comic book†or everything else and it shows you a customizable instant news overview of those topics from a lot of different sources. The news bits are shown as little widget boxes and pulled from all over the web; some are pulled by APIs, but most of the news are pulled by RSS. Addictomatic – or Addict-o-matic was initially programmed by Crowd Favorite and designed by Bryan Bell.
Try the page on the topic “Googleâ€, for instance. There will be headlines from sources like Twitter search, Google Blog search, Wikio and lots of other sources, and image and video content in the form of thumbnails shows from YouTube, Flickr, and Truveo video search.
You can easily rearrange the page elements via simple drag and drop, or you can choose to expand the Available Sources settings to opt-in to even more news sources. While not suited as a search result if you’re looking for a specific page, this approach seems potentially useful for finding random news articles (and also to find new search feeds for your research).
A couple of special news pages are also made available for the addictomatic users. The popular page for instance shows feeds like Yahoo’s most viewed photos and news stories, or content from Delicious, Digg, and Technorati.
Try it out! You will definitely like it.