Google has launched a beta version of it’s new online RSS reader, Google Reader. You can import and export subscriptions via OMPL, and the good thing about it is that you can read your news from anywhere with a net connection.

Now this is quite lovely I must say. NewsMap, developed by Marcos Weskamp, is a bright and breezy Flash news displayer, which aggregates news from Google News sources. Here’s the official blurb:

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

The concept is admirable, and very interesting, and even if you just want to see some news presented in a different way, it’s a good visit.

NewsMap