Zite reader moves to Windows Phone, CEO very happy about it [Video]

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Zite for Windows Phone - now available

We haven't heard much about Zite (zite.com), a news service that's owned by CNN, but nosotros should start paying attending to it. Zite is not only a news-app just rather a service that finds stories based on your likes and interests which gets y'all abroad from the "data overload" that many of united states of america experience today.

The app has been on iOS since late concluding year and is as well on Android also but now the service is coming to Windows Phone and the CEO is quite excited—mostly because he uses a Lumia 710.

In fact, according to an interview on Cnet, Nokia and Microsoft both lent the Zite team "support for technical preparation and too provided code and design clinics to assist the app'south development"—and so if you ever wonder what Nokia is doing for Windows Phone users, well there you get.

Zite CEO Mark Johnson seems quite thrilled with the motility to Windows Phone (he used to piece of work at Microsoft) equally he sees the OS every bit the adjacent big affair in mobile. In improver, the font and layout lend itself naturally to a "reading app" something to which we agree.

In that location'southward likewise that other advantage—the Windows Phone Marketplace is not that crowded meaning if yous get in early on, you can plant yourself and dominate:

"The marketplace is not every bit crowded right now, and then I'm really excited to become in front end of the news market considering when we launch we will have the best news-reading application on Windows Phone".

Using more than 2,000 categories for articles and an algorithm that draws from Twitter and Google Reader, Zite looks to be an interesting twist on an old problem—how do we find stories that interest united states that we weren't looking for? The app works by associating with Twitter and Google Reader, you then cull which sections you would like for "your mag". After that, the the service brings down a personalized experience with featured articles to your liking--in that sense, it'south similar to Weave for Windows Phone except that yous can similar/dislike article to aid refine the algorithm. From our limited experience with it, the service works well and does what it promises. How it translates to Metro will be the exciting part.

~~No word on exact release nor if this is a Nokia exclusive but nosotros'll reach out and see what we can find about Zite.~~

Update: App is subconscious in the Market place merely you can grab it now here for all Windows Phones.Cheers, everclear76, for the link

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Source: Cnet

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