A Different View of Google News
Has anyone seen Newsmap? Although it's been around for a while now, this website creates an alternate graphical view of the Google News homepage. News stories with the most links to external news sources are positioned in a larger context than less popular ones. At a quick glance viewers can see all the day's news in a visually compelling manner, without having to scroll or spend time reading for relevancy.Alternate country Google News views can be overlaid with a single mouse click, allowing for the visual "hot news" metaphor to be applied across other cultures. It's a fascinating glimpse of how data can be presented in new ways.
Labels: data visual representation, Google, mashups, news
posted by Nigel @ 11:48 AM
2 Comments:
That's fantastic! Is it a Google product? No advertising either. What's the catch?
Whoops, didn't see the comment earlier. Sorry! There's no catch. It seems to be an exercise in using a data visualization theory. To be honest I'm surprised it has remained active for over 2 years.
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