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Get Classy Daily Briefings from Winston

By on February 13, 2013

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A new app was released yesterday that does a great job of giving you a quick daily briefing.

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The app is called Winston and it’s as classy as a British gentlemen’s butler.

The app connects to your Twitter and Facebook accounts as well news sites that you may select from a long list of options.  It’s also location aware.

With all this info in hand, Winston proceeds to give you a daily briefing including…

  • The temp and forecast for the day.
  • News about topics you select ranging from world news, politics, tech, or even fashion.
  • Tweets from your friends.
  • Status updates from Facebook friends and pages you like.

Winston doesn’t just read these things to you sort of summarizes the posts and updates.

For instance, if someone posts a picture, Winston will tell you that.  He, I can’t help but call him a he, will also tell you if the post was popular by saying something like, “This was a popular picture with many comments.”

At any point, you can’t pause Winston and go directly to whatever he’s mentioning at that moment.

The app uses a wonderful British voice with a matching music bed that adds to the entire experience and just makes everything seem very classy and a tad sophisticated.

He even wishes you a good day at the end of the briefing.

As this video illustrates, this is a perfect app to run while getting ready or on your morning commute to get you up to speed.

The app has a lot of polish and works well.  I do wish it would let me select a Twitter list to read instead of my full Twitter feed which is a bit too random.  I imagine these sort of refinements will be coming in future updates.

The app is free and available here via iTunes.

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