Week 4 Progress

Posted on | January 10, 2009 | No Comments | by admin

Team IV is a 2009 New Media Team Project Group focusing on Web Feeds, and we are currently in the middle of one of two academic quarters being spent on this project.

Our goal is to design and develop an application which is a “one stop shop” for all of your popular news and gossip. At this point, we are looking at doing a somewhat abstract visualization of various mainstream RSS feeds, and creating an application which is both practical and artistic in itself. We would like to create “connections” between these feeds, something we believe has not yet been done for an RSS based website, such as Digg or NewsMap.

These “connections” we are looking to create have yet to be decided on. Our ideas range from practical and obvious, such as finding related stories based on what they are about, or what words are in the title – to obscure connections like how many times the letter ‘a’ appears in an article.

Stay tuned for more from the technical and development points of view, and the upcoming process work!

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Team IV is a 2009 RIT New Media Team Project Group focusing on Web Feeds, and we are currently in the middle of one of two academic quarters being spent on this project.

We're in the midst of creating an RSS feed based website that includes a mashup with Twitter, a popular social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Our goal is to create a different kind of news site, where users' tweets are driving the most popular and talked about stories. Apparently, news gets around even faster on Twitter than it does on any other real news or pop-culture site, because people are tweeting their experiences first hand. We're bringing this phenomenon together with CNN, BBC, YouTube, ESPN, and FailBlog, to name a few.

 

Enter: NEWSIVERSSE.

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