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Hi

In the past weeks there was a contest by Daylife. Developers had to use their news data to create applications. My entry for the contest was the Jaxly News Engine at http://jaxly.com. It allows users to do an indepth search based on country and date limits. 

During one of my brainstorming sessions to figure out a new way to read news, I came up with the idea of allowing users to read news with their Del.icio.us tags. I created this application called "News served Del.icio.usly" at http://jaxly.com/deliciously based on the idea. Its still a basic prototype. If you don`t have a Del.icio.us username then you can try using my username `akashxavier`

Summary from my AppGallery page at appspot.com:
"The `News served Deliciously` application allows you to read news by your Del.icio.us tags. Delicious(http://del.icio.us) is a website that allows you to bookmark webpages. It allows you to tag bookmarks by words you would like to describe the webpage you bookmark. `News served Deliciously` allows you to read news by your Delicious tags. Which means news is optimized by what you like."

Any suggestions? Improvements to be made?
What would you give it - 5 stars or brickbats? And why?

Also if you like the "News served Del.icio.usly", please be generous to rate this application in the Google Appengine`s appgallery here. (I could submit this application there since it`s hosted on Google Appengine).

The Digital Inspiration blog too reviewed the app here (I don`t know from where they got to know about the app. I surely didn`t tell them about it).  :)

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Leusmith / Akash Xavier
http://jaxly.com/jax
(If you have me a OpenSocial or Mashup development job, here I am)

oh!! this is definitely a great concept... while reading this entry i was wondering... what is the point making an application which will fetch your bookmarks for you... but this thing is different... so i had these tags in my delecious a/c

• ,Bachelorette
• ,Cocktail
• ,Crochet
• ,dinner
• ,easter
• ,easy
• ,girl`s
• ,girls
• ,jelly,valentines
• ,list
• ,Party
• ,pic,photo
• ,pic,picture,image
• ,Pigeon
• ,plates
• ,quick

and when i clicked on them its gives me latest news related to this word... great job... rated your application... I was just wondering how about adding a capability of selecting which bookmarking site you wanna select like stumbleupon, digg etc... ummm not sure how useful it would be though




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