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Shown HN: A quick way to glance through news headlines from multiple sources

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glancet (http://www.glancet.com) is a quick way to browse news headlines. It extends the Google News treemap from newsmap.jp by using HTML instead of Flash (yay tablets!) and incorporating signals from Facebook/Twitter to reconfigure the treemap. It was built on the excellent d3.js library by Mike Bostock.

As a news junkie, it was a fun side project and I would love feedback on design or utility and any feature requests you may have.

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Would be better to have the pop-over on 'onHover' instead of 'onClick'. Ability to turn on/off certain feeds would be good too.

I was working on a similar treemap visualization for the links of my twitter feed though I ended up abandoning the project.

Definitely agree on turning off some of the feeds. Regarding hover vs. click, that was a decision primarily made because of tablets. I usually visit the site on my iPad and hover doesn't make sense in that context.

I loved Newsmap.jp, good to see others still find it practical.

But here I can't turn off certain feeds, can't manually refresh, can't change color. Definitely need these things to start with before it can really be considered usable.

That's definitely fair. Thanks for the feedback, I will try adding those features as time permits.

Way cool. Some things I'd like to see in a later version:

* Filterable categories (it pains me to see celebrity news anywhere)

* Hideable header

* Refresh/more/new -- just some way to pull in other stories

Great work so far.

Thanks for the detailed requests, it helps to prioritize what needs to be done.

I think I still prefer http://www.dailyrotation.com/ . Looks great, though.

What do you prefer about it? The format, the content or something else?

I built something very similar a few months ago

http://www.newsola.com

Looks cool. Love the fact that it's native web and not Flash based.

Direct link: http://www.glancet.com

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