Broadsheet web news
MSNBC’s Spectra newsreader is out (developed by SSK as part of MSNBC’s exploratory “a fuller spectrum of news” campaign). It’s big, stylish, flash9ey, 3d-ey. It’s RSS-ey, customisey, spinny, swooshey… lots of things to like about it. It’s tactile, uses space and colour to organise and lay meaning onto otherwise dry headlines, and it’s fun to play with. Henk, they even have an interactive webcam game mode, where you can flash colours at it to pop up news stories related to that category.