A little bit more help in the UI would not go amiss here. While it's not clear, you will need to type in the URL in full, including the component, or Weave comes back with an empty results page. If the site you want isn't there, you can also input the RSS feed directly into the search box. I wonder which search engine or mechanism the developers are using to get this data? And success! The official site is listed, with its news feeds, video links and one or two of the third party sites. Create a new topic, find the feeds, and in they go! Let's search for some news feeds then on the relatively easy keyword of "Eurovision" (which is also going to be the new topic). Select one of these and it will be added as a category on the main panorama screen for you to look through all the sites that are in each category, in the classic "reverse date" flow as you would expect from a blog.Īll these curated categories are powered by the RSS feeds of the websites, so the second option is to simply sort it all out yourself. The first is through 33 pre-populated categories, including one for Windows Phone (naturally), World News, Sports, Music, and more. Skipping over that, Weave has two ways of setting up categories for you to read through. If this is really needed, then pull the app and fix the bug, otherwise lose it!
Tucked down in the bottom of the splash screen as you launch Weave is the phrase "if you see this for more than four seconds, reboot your phone." Apart from the fact that Windows Phone as an operating system will have sand-boxed Weave as an application, this tells the user that the developers have little confidence in their application. But it also pops up a totally unnecessary danger sign as the app opens up. Given most people won't be familiar with RSS and the intricacies of website publishing, Weave has lowered the bar to getting started. Yes it's an RSS reader, but it's pretty quick to set up if you've never used one before - just tell it what you like and you'll get an initial set of feeds, broken down into easy to understand categories. If that's browsing websites to get the latest news, you'll be wanting an RSS reader that fits in with the UI, but still gets you all the text you need. For all the shiny Metro squares, flowing graphics and sleek presentation, your Windows Phone still needs to get on the Internet and find the information you want.
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