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POP Takeout lays out social news in MobileSafari

Sometimes you want a list of what's hot on the social news sites at a quick glance-- an easy-to-access look at the Zeitgeist, if you will. And for those times, there's POP Takeout, a site Wade M put together and sent to us that offers up a quick list of social news headlines from Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, Tailrank, and Newsvine, all listed in a site that's easy to browse and right on your iPhone (or iPod Touch-- I guess we should just start saying "in MobileSafari").

The only complaint I'd have is that each link goes to the social news site's page for the story, and not the actual link for the story itself. I'd use something like POP Takeout because I don't want to visit Digg or Tailrank, and hitting the link and making me click through causes me to do that anyway.

On the other hand, if I worked for Digg, I'd have a serious problem with someone listing my articles and not providing a link through to the site-- it's content theft, more or less. But if Wade could work out a way to keep Digg happy and send me to the news stories with just one click, it'd be a better solution all around.

Sometimes you want a list of what's hot on the social news sites at a quick glance-- an easy-to-access look at the Zeitgeist, if you will....
 

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wade

Shoot me an email at wademeredith.com and I'll send it to you.

September 14 2007 at 4:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cody Austin

Anybody know where I can find that "Take Out" icon? It looks yummy.

September 07 2007 at 11:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wade

Mike, I hear you on the lameness of linking directly to the site.

Even if I could figure out how to do it, (Their RSS feed does not provide a source link.) I'd feel like a content scammer if I were to link straight to the story.

September 07 2007 at 9:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luigi193

Dang... now I want chinese food.

September 06 2007 at 7:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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