The Afternoon Squeeze: Daylife takes on news visually
We’re really diggin’ Daylife’s new look and the site is quickly becoming one of our favorites.
If you haven’t visited the site before, it’s worth a drop on by. There are different ways to enjoy what Daylife is all about – rounding up some top stories from the week and presenting them in way that makes you interested in them. They accomplish this by making full use of great photography.
In short, our quick analysis is that Daylife capitalizes on the premise that people love visuals, that less is more, and that personalized news delivery has an inkling of hope for the future. Daylife’s maximizes the use of imagery to enable visitors to get a sense of a story’s essence without actually having to read beyond the headline.
Head on over to the My World section and you can sign up to start getting custom news delivered to a personal page based on ratings that you assign to news items (along the lines of a NetFlix rating). In there, you also get a great visual display of tagged thumbnails of big newsmakers that enables you to drill down even further to find what you want amid the onslaught of daily coverage.
There are many studies that have analyzed consumption of media based on selection and consumption preferences and behaviors, but it’s not until now with services such as Daylife or Google’s personalized news recommendations that we’ve been able to see if we like it or not.
While we’re excited about Daylife, it’s too early to draw too many conclusions just yet. Our only initial criticism, however, is that Daylife’s homepage has gone a little too far down the road of weeding out the perception of content en masse. We’ll keep using it and see if it works into our daily surfing habits and urge you to do the same.
Via Signal vs. Noise.
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