I love to read my Twitter stream. I mean, the amount of information that comes out of it is absolutely amazing. And I can tell you, I am a serious information junkie. Twitter for me is like meth. Just without the missing teeth and the ugly scars and.. anyways.. you get the idea. But there is just so much information that theres just no way for me to keep up with everything in it.
Now, Im also a web surfing addict. I can sit in front my computer all day long and look at cool new websites. I know this cause I have actually done it many, many, many times.
So, a few days ago, I came across this website called paper.li. And what it does is.. well, let me let them tell you what it does:
paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.
When I saw that, I figured, “eh, another Twitter mash up page site. Ok, I’ll give it a try.” And lo and behold, it actually took my Twitter feed and made something pretty damn cool. Ok, it was seriously cool. Like Snowmen in December cool.
I’m personally impressed with how it recognizes some links are sports related and puts them in a sports section, business stuff in the business section, photos in a photo area, etc.
As you can see in the above screen capture, It even takes video links, makes a cool little media section and lets you play your videos right on the paper.li page. Now, if my local paper actually did something like this, they would be a serious contender for coolness (and actually have some real news for once)
Heres a screen capture showing the Arts & Entertainment section (which it seems my feed gets a lot of links about) And a really cool little Photo area. I love this cause it makes looking at all the photos that end up in my stream really easy to see.
So, give it a whirl, try it out, and tell me what you think, or, if you know of any similar websites that do , leave some link love in the comments below!
