[fbnt]

I'm working on a news reader that works in the opposite way of traditional news reading apps. It uses Twitter as a sort of enhanced RSS feed and ranks news based on how much they are shared in real-time, and lays them down in a newspaper-like format specifically designed for mobile devices.

It allows you to find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and put you in a whole different point of view. I belive it's extremely interesting, and I'm trying to make the reading experience as enjoyable as possible.

The first raw version is available for iOS: http://newspo.st

I'm in the process of adding categorization and custom topic search as well.

[Unnatural_Log]

Not available in the app store in Canada.

It puzzles me why people do this, because it is just as easy to make the app available everywhere as it is to limit it to a particular country.

Anyway, interesting idea. Pity about the gunshot wound in your foot. Hope it heals.

[fbnt]

Simply put, I did it because what is interesting for Canadians or Australians is slightly different from what matters to people in US. I'm working to open it to other countries as well, but that requires some work on my side. At the moment is only available in US, UK and Italy. I should've mentioned it.

[collyw]

My guess would be avoiding legal headaches. It is easy to know what is allowed or not in your own country, but you have no idea in other parts of the world. That and less maintenance.