Fwix Gives Your City Its Own News Feed

Fwix is an aggregator that is taking a different approach. Fwix isn’t concerned with your friends - instead, it keeps track of what’s going on in your physical region. The site pulls data from over 30 APIs including Yelp, Twitter, and Eventful, with more on the way. Every 15 minutes it combs through thousands of potential stories, using a series of algorithms to determine what the hottest items are in your city - it’s sort of like a regional News Feed. The site is laid out well and is very intuitive. Users can browse through stories by their category (News, media, etc.), and can also choose to look at a regional or universal stream. And because there’s no login, the site could easily serve as a Digg alternative for users looking for a constant stream of new content to read (though I quickly began to wish it refreshed more often than once every 15 minutes).
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/21/fwix-gives-your-city-its-own-news-feed/

http://www.fwix.com/