This week saw the launch of a hyperlocal news map for the Liverpool Echo, as announced by Sly Bailey at the AOP Digital Publishing Summit (follow link for report in MediaGuardian). It geotags news content so each user can search for news by postcode. Nothing new there, web-savvy newshounds might think, but actually it is: […]
ELPAIS.com and Soitu.es claimed the first general excellence awards for non-English language sites at the Online News Association (ONA) 2008 awards on Saturday. Speaking of ElPais.com, the judges said the site was ‘a shining example of how traditional media can blossom in the digital arena.’ “On a bedrock of first-class journalism it has built a […]
Online maps are erasing the UK’s history and geography, according to the president of the British Cartographic Society. Quoted in a BBC report, Mary Spence said internet maps, such as those provided by Google and Microsoft’s Multimap, are missing out ‘crucial data’ on local landmarks and history. It’s not all bad news online, however: mash […]
The team of developers responsible for Google Earth and Maps have launched a new feature to show Embedded YouTube videos in Google Maps. Geotagged YouTube videos have been available in Google Earth since last year – the service has now been extended to Maps. Newspapers in the UK have been increasingly drawn to the use […]
We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. Today it’s your news selected and filtered with artificial intelligence from Tiinker. 1) Who are you and what’s it all about? Hi I’m Alex North. Tiinker has been developed […]