Newsvine’s cool, customizable home page

Cory Bergman May 9th, 2007

The citizen journalism and social news site Newsvine has unveiled a new design with functionality that smart online news sites should copy in a hurry. It has combined the drag-and-drop functionality of many news aggregators on its home page so you can import your own RSS feeds and position everything exactly how you want it. Of course, the ads are fixed, along with a couple Newsvine modules like the top story, but the rest is totally customizable. This makes complete sense in a world where the user is in control and a closed-loop website is just another RSS feed in a news aggregator. So why not open it up for all kinds of content, even your competition, if that’s what your users want? That’s how to create a destination site in the new 2.0 world. Screen grab…

That’s not the only cool user-powered functionality on the site, by the way.