Stern.de is one of the most successfull online portals in Germany. One of the most important new extensions in the past has been a stand-alone short-list application that is available at http://shortlist.stern.de.

webfact contributed to the major success of this completly new way to present entertainment-contents by stern.  In a pilot project with Bertelsmann’s company Arvato, webfact was responsible for the development of the first prototype for the core-module of the shortlist application - the interactive theme-overview in flash that is now integrated right on the homepage of http://shortlist.stern.de/. webfact developed the flash-clickdummy and an algorithm to generate the main-picture of the theme out of different small images.

Based on this development, Gruner and Jahr developed the whole portal. Stern shortlist today offers users the service to create, view and publish individual lists with favourite contents from entertainment. The core module on the homepage is a flash-application that uses big pictures to present new themes on the shortlist-portal.