Reading online magazine articles from site to site? Sorry, that’s not convenient for me. Now, a startup called Maggwire is offering a new way for you to read the magazines. Maggwire, dubbed as the new way to “experience magazines online,” it is designed to wire you to a list of articles from 660 magazines across the Web, at the time of my writing.
On the front page of Maggwire, it aggregates magazine articles that cover any topic under the sun, from golf, and yoga to tech or celebrity news. All the magazine articles resolves around topics, and included with each topic, there are sub-categories that form around a main category. Clearly, the Top Articles part of the site is virtually identical to many other news sites on the Web such as Digg and Techmeme whereby the article with most popularity, i.e. five (5) stars will sit in at the top of the site.
In fact, Maggwire offered a number of features that will shorten the amount of time you spend on the site each day. For the articles you’ve read, you can either rate it so the rating color will turn from yellow to red, and next time when you come across this article, you know you can skip to other articles until you find something interesting.
Also, Maggwire comes with additional features such as the ability to share the articles via the addthis plugin, and hide a certain magazine based on your viewing experience. The “Hide Magazine” feature, although it is certainly unique, it’s likely to appeal to a very small segment of online readers who want to make their browsing articles faster.
