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Feeds feast for FT: new corporate RSS and FriendFeed experiment

Laura Oliver — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:08:12 +0000

(Try saying that headline 10 times fast)

First up, the Financial Times has announced a new RSS service for corporate users – an add-on for those paying subscribers who signed up for the site’s direct licence system introduced in April last year.

The customisable RSS feed will be available to corporate customers, who under the licence arrangement are entitled unlimited access to FT content on FT.com and third-party services, and can be tailored by specific search terms, a press release from the title said.

Not full-fat feeds as yet – users will click through to read articles on the main website.

Elsewhere, technology journalists at the FT’s San Francisco bureau have been experimenting with FriendFeed to create a single source of their links, articles and blog posts (it can also be used for Twitter and Flickr updates):

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk: Do you know what your readers are searching for?

John Thompson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:10:01 +0000

Online publishing: Do you know what people are searching for on your website? Check the logs for the most common search terms and see if what you are writing about matches what users want – you could be surprised. Tipster: Oliver Luft

Got a tip? Submit it here – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.

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OJR: Using Google Trends to fine-tune your news website

Oliver Luft — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:42:00 +0000

Google’s tool can help online publishers tweak their content to maximize traffic from search engine users, says OJR.

‘Google Trends allows you to select up to five words or phrases, then shows you how those search terms rate relative to one another in both the volume of search queries handled by Google, as well as news references tracked by the search engine. It’s an addictive site for a data geek, like me, and essential for any online publisher who wants to optimize his or her publication to attract more visitors from search engines, such as Google.’

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Innovations in Journalism – Imooty.eu

Oliver Luft — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:15:26 +0000

1) Who are you and what’s it all about?

Hello. I’m Kristoffer Lassen. I’m the co-founder of Imooty.

Imooty is an interactive compendium of news stories from across Europe. It provides direct access to the latest breaking media coverage from the most important newspapers and media organizations based in the European Union, Switzerland and Norway.

2) Why would this be useful to a journalist?

Imooty makes it possible for users to compare and contrast vast amounts of information.

By clicking the European map, readers may browse through a particular country’s major and minor papers and blogs in English and local languages.

One can easily search for a particular term across all European papers or simply navigate by the common news topics such as politics, science, or business.

MyImooty allows users to create their own media universe. By collecting and saving the most frequently accessed news topics, you may collect your favourite sources on a single customized page. Each time you return to your page, the news is updated and sorted by subject, search terms and titles.

3) Is this it, or is there more to come?

The technical and conceptual goal of Imooty is not only to provide access to the latest breaking news, but also to enable a convenient way to review news archives.

With its integrated search engine, users may find specific content located in several different databases and retrieve them through a single business transaction. We’re also in the process of adding Podcast and IPTV modules.

4) Why are you doing this?

I’m Norwegian and co-founder Blaise Bourgeois is French but we are both expats living in Germany.

We are both interested in commentary and analysis of current events; however, keeping up to date on both the media landscape here in Berlin, as well as in our respective home countries was unmanageable.

So we set out to create a platform that could solve this problem. We believe that as the European Union continues its development, more people will migrate and follow news and current events in different languages from nearby countries.

5) What does it cost to use it?

Access to the latest news is free and we simply redirect traffic to the newspapers. As mentioned, also archived news will be searchable on the platform and such content will be displayed in the same format as the latest news (headline with a teaser text below it). Access to this information is a premium feature.

6) How will you make it pay?

Our business model is based on a combination of sales commission and advertising revenue.

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Yahoo goes global with news mapping

Laura Oliver — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:55:57 +0000

Yahoo has combined its RSS feed of top news stories with a geo-encoding function of Yahoo Maps to create the Newsglobe (screenshot below). Fairly self-explanatory, it’s updated every few minutes and indicates the ranking of the news story by the size of the red bar plotting the story.

A ccording to the developer’s blog, the globe could be adapted to show feeds of news by location or defined by specific search terms

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God, no? Is it list and predictions time already?

Oliver Luft — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:37:06 +0000

Yes, it’s that time again, the season of favourites lists, bests of, highlights of 2007, and rough guesses of what may happen in the coming 12 months.

I’ve brought together the few lists I have managed to find in between crazed bouts of gorging my way through East Sussex’s entire supply of mince pies and crapulent afternoons spent selecting the wine for the Christmas party (finally decided on Blue Nun – half bottles).

For what it’s worth, my predictions for the next 12 months are a pocket-sized Second Life for the Asian market, Google car insurance and marriage counselling by April and some kind of Granny app for Facebook so you can check on the vital signs of elderly relatives.

Best journalism film of all time, bar none – cue ‘no, this is better,’….’no, this one,’
Regret the Year. Twelve-months of comical mistakes brought to you by Regret the Error
Yahoo!’s list of the year – favourite sites and causes on the web in 2007
US news source of the year – by top ranking stories on Google News
Top ten search terms of the year
The Jeff Jarvis list of stuff from 2007
Internet TV, 2007, a year in review
Guardian predictions for 2008
Press Gazette twitters from journalists about what they learned from 2007
Shane Richmond’s review of the year in webby tech, month by month

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OMG – it’s Omgili

Laura Oliver — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:33:26 +0000

Approaching its first birthday is “subjective” search engine Omgili, which aims to give users ‘consumer opinions, debates, discussions, personal experiences, answers and solutions’ in response to search terms.

It works by crawling over 100,000 boards, forums and other discussion groups and is clever enough to differentiate between discussion entities such as topic, title, replies and discussion date.

Here’s the results for a Journalism.co.uk hot topic of the week – widgets:

Not a completely scientific study, it’s true, but a rather neat graphic. You can compare the ‘chatter’ of up to five search terms and plot them over three days, seven days or a month.

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