November 2007

Vinereader is an innovative newsreader application that creatively displays today's latest news in any subject. I built the application using the Adobe Flex development framework, and it served as a useful focus of mine as I was learning the technology over the past several months.

Given its robustness and seamless cross-platform capabilities, Flex has proven to be well suited for developing a rich internet application such as Vinereader, especially considering the dynamic and data-driven nature of the user interface.

The data presented in Vinereader is obtained from Newsvine, which is an exciting source of news with a mixture of community-driven content and news wire stories. Newsvine makes its structured news data available through RSS feeds available to the public, and Vinereader consumes this data strictly in a non-commercial manner.

As of today, Vinereader is available for anyone to use by clicking this Vinereader link. I hope you find it as enjoyable as I do to see the interesting stories that appear on the screen throughout the day.