Sometimes The Best Ideas Are The Simple Ones

I just got an inside scoop on a new website: MostEmailedNews.

Started by Tim Brennan and Spencer Moy (the founders of Blinxi, “a social networking site for grown-ups”), it doesn’t look like much, but what you’ve got at MostEmailedNews (MEN) is just that, the most emailed news.

Most news websites have that little box somewhere on the first page telling you the top stories that people are sending to each other. MEN takes those boxes from a bunch of different news sources (ranging from sites like the NY Times and CNN to the Times of India and the St. Louis Post Dispatch) and puts them all togehter for you.

On display from the start you get the top 5 stories from 18 different sources, you can expand any of the sources to see the top 10 list or collapse it to make it disappear. It gives you a nice cross section of what people are emailing, weather it is the AP article “Tax rebates start showing up in bank accounts Monday (AP)” posted on Yahoo or “The Coolest D.C. Party is Still Lame” from Time magazine. Plus the site updates every 10 minutes keeping you up-to-date on everything.

In planning it out and picking sites Tim says they “thought of all the sites that we see linked to the most from blogs we read, and also to have a good mix of regions in the country.” Since they have just launched the site don’t be surprised to see a few updates/upgrades along the way, though even if it stays as it is now, that works fine too.