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

6 points| bmajz | 13 years ago | reply

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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[+] vrishabh|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] bmajz|13 years ago|reply
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.
[+] devindotcom|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] bmajz|13 years ago|reply
That's definitely fair. Thanks for the feedback, I will try adding those features as time permits.
[+] sprobertson|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] bmajz|13 years ago|reply
Thanks for the detailed requests, it helps to prioritize what needs to be done.