Just like on a “news wall” all messages – sorted by date and time – show up in small blocks, if possible together with an image. That way it is easy to find the most important and interesting news and then have a closer look at these. So it is sort of a feed reader mixed with an e-mail viewer having the look of an image gallery. Or so… Might also be a good choice for the iPad – and other tablets, too

Like a number of other projects newswall initially was created for own personal needs: Using standard news readers it was hard to crawl and click through folder structures to finally find out what messages are actually hidden behind all those more or less “faceless” titles. It also is very helpful to have your e-mails showing up together with the feed messages: You can keep newswall running in a browser tab and once you hear a signal sound you know: there’s something new.