New from Yahoo Next Research Labs: NewsGlobe
From the announcement:
The Yahoo! NewsGlobe consists of three basic pieces: a Yahoo! News Top Stories RSS feed, a geo-encoding web service from Yahoo! Maps, and a free, open-source library of 3D classes for ActionScript 3 called Papervision3D. The application loads the Y! News RSS feed every few minutes and extracts the dateline for each story. It sends this descriptive textual information off to the Yahoo! Maps service to find a matching location, and return latitude and longitude coordinates for it. The rest is simply a matter of using the 3D classes in ActionScript to create a visually engaging experience that’s either automated or interactive.
See Also: Reuters News Maps
View and navigate Reuters news by its geographical location using MetaCarta’s technology to map news articles to Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Maps.
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