Bing’s Local Lens app – potential for local news journalists?
December 11th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Handy tools and technology
Via Lost Remote, a demonstration of a new application from Bing (Microsoft’s search property). Local Lens is a ‘neighbourhood blog app’ and can plot hundreds of blogs within a specific area on a map. The most recent posts will also be displayed and tweets can be overlayed on the map too.
The app is currently in beta and so only covers a group of US cities at the moment. The Los Angeles map is at this link and shown below:
But there’s potential here for tracking how local news and issues break and spread on blogs, as well as creating a visualisation of local social media reaction to an event or report.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:16 am
[...] by Laura Oliver in Handy tools and technology, Top tips for journalists Blogging: Keep an eye on Bing's Local Lens application – currently only available for certain US cities, it adds blog posts and Twitter updates to maps of [...]