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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is on Thursday January 23, 2014 @10:17PM (#7113167)
By having the content shown in iframe, it makes it easier for users to navigate without opening lots of tabs in the web browser.

Everything is preserved in the original site. It helps the content owner by making more of their content accessible to the users.

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:52PM (#7113095)
This is a work around. Yahoo does not allow showing their news in an iframe, which we currently implement. Again, this is just experimental. We could use another news source which allows iframe. And there won't be a need for the proxy approach.

We think this actually is helpful to the content owner, in our opinion, as it allows more access to their content.

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:33PM (#7113035)
Thanks for pointing out the issues with source crediting. We are adding the appropriate credits to the site.

As we are still experimenting with the site, we are only getting news from one source.

The key point is not to redirect or scrape someone's news, but to explore innovative ways to enable users to access and read massive amount of info in a short amount of time.

Our objective is to allow users to read 10X amount of news and other info in 1/10 of the time they normally spend.

Thanks for the comments.