News.me appears to include the links that people you follow on Twitter have posted directly, like Flipboard, with ranking and filtering to only show the most popular or relevant stories. It also lets you browse other News.me users and see what the service is recommending to them.
I just downloaded News.me for my iPad. And, Elauwit is looking into a licensing deal with the service, too. I'm certainly intrigued.
And, as Marco Arment notes, "The best part... is that this is a brand new market, created entirely by the iPad, that significantly benefits everyone involved: readers can easily find more content from a wider variety of publishers, publishers get more readers and a potential alternative to advertising revenue, and the market is so large that there’s plenty of space for many services to successfully connect them."
What I think is missing in the discussion is the free daily email service. I signed up for that, too. And I'm excited to see what it looks like. (I start getting it tomorrow.) But it seems as though News.me is going to pay attention to the folks I follow on Twitter and then use an algorithm to curate the most relevant items into a daily email for me.
I think that email is going to be an awesome way for me to see things I otherwise would have missed, but certainly have interest in. So, words borrowed from Marco, this email service, too, is a major win: I get FREE exposure to news I would have missed and the publishers get some additional traffic and attention.
