Glocal News - Discover Top Local News, Globally.

http://glocalne.ws is a web app, a mashup of Google News & Google Maps.

Published in 'Advances in Conceptual Modeling' by Springer http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-14139-8_1

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1. “An Attempt to Visualize the Discovery of Localized Top Local News, Globally”
2. The Problem • information overload • streams of text (portals, rss) • news discovery through: Searching Browsing our solution
3. Why News discovery is a stagnant procedure since the introduction of the web. You visit some portals, or get links from email & social media. However, chances are that, news = local news. Why not make it fun and interesting?
4. So, we built a mashup* + Google Maps Google News *mashup is a web application, that uses and combines data from two or more sources to create new services
5. Earlier Work - Inspiration
6. Twitter trends (#hashtags) mapped. Zoom to localize your search.
7. Google News grouped in treemaps. Important news = bigger tiles.
8. Our web app
9. The Objective Display the top five news of every place on earth, from the largest country to the tiniest village, adjusting the results by taking into account user’s language of preference.
10. Functionality - Choose your country/language from the Localization menu. - Drag the pin to the desired place, globally. - Zoom in to reveal more local news*. *the browser’s zoom level adjusts dynamically the results on the window. So, the same coordinates represent different results, according to the abstraction level.
11. Example
12. Let’s say you are a French soon-to-be tourist travelling to USA.
13. You are expecting news about USA in French, probably posted by your country’s media outlets.
15. And you can always zoom in to get specific news about cities, even remote villages.
16. Demo ________ www.glocalne.ws
17. Technology Used • Presentation – HTML5 • Design – CSS3 • Algorithm – Javascript • Geolocation • Google News query • Reverse Geocoding • Local Storage • Map Viewports • Infowindow
18. Further Work • Eliminate toponyms ambiguities using Natural Language Processing techniques. • Introduction of categories (sports/politics/international etc.) • Personalization
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