13 Reasons Why PimpMyNews is a Killer Web 2.0 Application and Why You Should Use It

I was actually thinking of making the title of this post to something like, “PimpMyNews is not your social news site, it actually talks” but thought that I might not be able to cover PimpMyNews rich features aside from being a social news site where you just don’t read news items from blog sources and text news sites, but you get to listen to them as well.

PimpMyNews as a web 2.0 service lets users listen to mp3 versions of blog posts and other news items from popular sites and blogs. It continuously scours around 1,000 news and blog sites and converts these items into audio playable as a podcasts on desktops, online and some mobile devices.

PimpMyNews has the making of a killer web 2.0 app, and here are 13 reasons why:

1. It scans more than 1,000 top news sites and blogs for breaking news items and blog posts
2. It allows you to have your own favs playlist containing 10 of your favourite blogs/sites
3. It converts textual contents into audio
4. It allows you to listen to your PMP account online
5. It lets you listen to your news items and blogs posts of your interest on your iPod, iPhone and mp3 player
6. It allows you to view summaries and access full stories online
7. It allows you to share your stories, podcasts and playlists with friends
8. It allows you to rate stories in the PMN community
9. It’s a cool web 2.0 application because it keeps you current on what’s happening
10. It puts you in control of news items and blog contents that you want to read
11. It saves you time
12. It beats the heck out of reading
13. It’s just plain fun

Wow! That’s loads of nifty features for you. And did I mention that PimpMyNews is free for everyone? Ready to sign up? Follow these steps. Signup and get your own PMN account. During the signup you will be asked to subscribe to various blogs and news sites already scanned by PMN. After subscribing to a particular news site of blog, it will be automatically added to your PMN account. It usually takes 15 minutes to have the podcasts appear on your PMN account.

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