Everyblock Launches Local News Service
A new site called Everyblock plans to use mashups to provide local news and maps down to your very block. They blogged about the launch of their service in three cities today.
For a long time, that's been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco, the number of daily media reports, government proceedings and local Internet conversations is staggering. Every day, a wealth of local information is created -- officials inspect restaurants, journalists cover fires and Web users post photographs -- but who has time to sort through all of that?Everyblock has launched in three American cities: Chicago, New York and San Francisco. Technology Evangelist blogs that Adrian Holovaty, the person behind the Chicago Crime website, put together the team behind Everyblock.
Our mission at EveryBlock is to solve that problem. We aim to collect all of the news and civic goings-on that have happened recently in your city, and make it simple for you to keep track of news in particular areas. We're a geographic filter -- a "news feed" for your neighborhood, or, yes, even your block.
Posted on January 23, 2008
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Internet News Twitter
We have launched a twitter profile which provides Internet news. Twitter is a microblogging service and communication tool that allows you to post short 140 character updates. To get our updates on Twitter you need to join Twitter and then follow our Twitter profile.
You can keep up with news about Twitter by reading BloggersBlog.com's Twitter news section or by following the BloggersBlog.com Twitter. Examples of some of the other news Twitters available include business news, celebrity gossip, sports news, tech gadgets, jobs, green news, video game news, health news, tech news, fashion news, politics and virtual worlds.
Posted on April 17, 2007
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200 Years of News at Google
The BBC reports that Google has added a feature to Google News that lets people search 200 years worth of news archives.The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online content.The search results for the archives can be opened as regular search results or as a timeline of events. For example, see the timeline results for searches for these famous people:
People using the search are shown results from both free and subscription-based news outlets.
Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New York Times and the Guardian from the UK.
Other sources include news aggregators, websites which collect and display news stories from multiple sources.
Posted on September 12, 2006
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AOL News Search Gets Heavy Traffic
AOL debuted a news search engine in June to compete with Yahoo News, Google News, Topix.net and other news search tools. Search Engine Watch points out that AOL's new search engine already has considerable traffic and is a solid competitor in news search.When America Online launched of its new AOL.com portal back on June 21, the relaunch of AOL News went largely unnoticed. However, Nielsen//NetRatings has just disclosed its monthly data for July 2005 and it turns out that AOL News has a unique audience of 16.5 million.AOL also has a large subscriber base and the use of content from Time Warner to promote its news search tools.
While the unique audience of AOL News is about 29% smaller than Yahoo News, AOL News is more than 2.4 times larger than Google News and almost 6.8 times larger than Topix.net. This catapults AOL News into the big league of news search engines.
Posted on August 25, 2005
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Webby Winning 10x10 Offers Unique Approach to Finding News
10x10 is an interesting website that covers current events in a very unique way. The site presents each hour of news as a picture window with 100 different frames. When a surfer clicks on one of the windows relevant stories pop up related to the image. 10x10 just won the 2005 Webby Award in the Best Navigation/Structure category.
Here is how the site works (from 10x10's own description):
Each hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time. Clicking on a single frame allows us to peer a bit deeper into the story that lies behind the image. In this way, we can dart in and out of the news, understanding both the individual stories and the ways in which they relate to each other.
10x10 runs with no human intervention, autonomously observing what a handful of leading international news sources are saying and showing. 10x10 makes no comment on news media bias, or lack thereof. It has no politics, nor any secret agenda; it simply shows what it finds.
Posted on May 6, 2005
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