Malaysian based tech start-up launches its ‘people-powered’ news site to four countries in the Asia Pacific region, namely India, Australia, Singapore and the Philippines. Youtube videos, images, infographics, Wikipedia links, Facebook pages and more. Sources are displayed as cards, designed to be pleasing to the eye and optimised for quick scanning. Remixes are categorised under eight news channels, namely News, Fun, Inspiration, Design, Sports, Tech, Gossip and Entertainment...You either get your news from a tweet or a friend’s post on your Facebook wall. Gone are the days when people relied on newspapers the next morning for their news fix...Users can also Spark A Discussion by creating polls and voting on polls. The ‘Top Broadcaster’ recognition is given to users who succeed in gathering the biggest audience to a particular remix they’ve shared. URLs given to every user who shares a remix.
Up and coming features include the ability to follow favorite curators, a bookmarklet browser plug-in, adding tags to a remix and new channels.