Cromotion Network

A few years back there was a research paper which has established that Croatia has the largest amount of Internet users that use the Web to read news. In response to that, there is a disproportionately large number of “news portals” and similar sources in the Croatian Web space, and most people tend to chose only one of them to get their news from. However, this means that some information will inevitably be missed, or possibly biased as many sources follow their economical and/or political sponsors.

Naslovnica (which means “front page” in Croatian) is a useful service that resolves that problem by collecting scouting news articles on various sources and present them in a very clean and easily navigable format. The service doesn’t copy the news from their sources — instead it just provides the title, a brief excerpt and a link to the original article, thus breaking no copyrights and stealing no traffic.

The articles are categorized into seven sections — Croatia, The World, Sport, Culture, Entertainment, Technology and Economy — with the most interesting ones being also displayed on the front page. It also keeps a searchable archive of articles, and registered users get some additional functionalities such as the ability to select the sources for their own news. It also automatically tags the articles, providing a list of most mentioned tags.

Naslovnica also serves as a feed aggregator, as it provides RSS feeds for each section and the front page separately.