Scopetech

SportSnipe has launched into beta, offering a customizable Ajax homepage specifically targeted towards sports fans. The site boasts 1300+ RSS sources (according to it’s ‘Site Features‘ page) and allows users to easily add their own feeds to the mix. They also offer a commenting system, attaching a thread to each individual item in each feed.

Check out a screenshot of the SportSnipe front page.

Some curiosities exist, in that while users can drag and reorder the modules in each category, they’re unable to actually customize or collapse them, only allowing you to rearrange them. In order to view the custom RSS feeds you’ve added, the user has to browse to a different page specifically for those added feeds called ‘My Page/Added News’. Additionally the comment system gives no indication of how many comments are actually in each thread. A user has no clue as to which items have hot or ongoing conversations attached to them without individually entering each one. The site’s header toolbar does offer a ‘Top Comments‘ page that highlights the most commented on stories but still doesn’t give any indication of how many comments are in each thread.

The site doesn’t offer nearly the fulfilling experience of some of it’s competitors like Pageflakes or Netvibes, but as mentioned before, it’s still in beta and an early one at that. Check back here for a more in-depth review of SportSnipe in the future.

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