The world of modern men.

When I’m surfing online and it isn’t for work directly then I’m mostly looking for news which can be world news or inspirational news to write about on my blogs. I think that the biggest problem of modern internet and global communication is that there are too many fraudulent sites and blogs out there to have clear and real view of what’s happening in today’s world.

When I was contacted by the guys of Newstin.com for a review I was quite excited since I’m real critical about the subject matter. There are a millions of so called News sites out there; why should I look into Newstin.com and can they really be called a news site?

If you look at the site you see a clear over view with the top stories at first glance. So far nothing to complain; the site has 10 main categories and isn’t cluttered at all. I’m having a closer look at two categories which are the category Health and the sub-category Male Health.

Both category indexes look very nice and transparent. Newstin is using the title and header text (approx. 35 words) of the mayor news sources. Some of the news sources which they are using are Business Week, medicinenet.com and the Washington Post. There is no user generated content like on news sites like Digg, this is real world news. All the links to the original articles open in a new window which works great for a good usability. If you don’t want the articles to open in a new window you can register and adjust your personal settings and have the article opened in the same window.

A nice little extra tool for the webmasters among us; you have the possibility to create a sidebar widget with the Newstin headlines.

My conclusion: Newstin.com is great news source with valuable content and a very clean page layout. I’m glad they asked for a review because this is a news source that I’ll be seeing a lot more of.