image11[1]On the Daylife blog, Rachel Sterne posts about a new iPhone app (submitted to Apple but not yet approved) called the Accidental News Explorer, that uses the Daylife API to create a “Pandora for news.” (Referring to Pandora.com, the streaming music service that presents you with a channel full of music similar to given artists or songs you selected.)

As seen in the demonstration video (embedded below the jump), the app is really simple in concept: a reader searches on a particular keyword, producing a list of stories. Then while reading any given story, he can tap a button to bring up a list of keywords related to the article. Tapping on one of these searches on it, bringing up a whole new list of article.

It looks like an interesting app to play around with. The weird thing is, I’m sure I’ve seen something like it before, but can’t remember what or where. Or maybe I’m just thinking about the similar random navigational tendencies evinced by sites like TVTropes or Wikipedia.

From Obama to Efron – sneak peek of The Accidental News Explorer iPhone app from Brendan Dawes on Vimeo.

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