Newsmap: Realtime Visual News for Wii
By DotEd. Thursday, 28. December 2006, 00:10:00
So, the Opera powered Wii Browser Trial Version launched, and everyone is scrambling to get sweet Wii related, TV compatable, and couch friendly sites up as fast as possible. We've got SofaTube and Wiicade recently providing video and gameplay for free, but what about the people who can't have fun unless thier reading news stories and can't wait until January 27th for the News Channel to launch?
I present Newsmap (again, because it is a few years old actually). Not only does it fill the screen and look beautiful, but it is fully customizable, updates on its own via the Google news aggregator, and it's exactly what you're looking for. I've left this site up on my Wii during my downtime, and it's a great ambient display/conversation starter.
Try it out, you can have it display news for 11 different countries, and the colored sections represent World, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, Health, Nation, and Business. These can also be turned on or off. The stories get darker as they get older, too.
The Concept:
Credits for Newsmap.
I present Newsmap (again, because it is a few years old actually). Not only does it fill the screen and look beautiful, but it is fully customizable, updates on its own via the Google news aggregator, and it's exactly what you're looking for. I've left this site up on my Wii during my downtime, and it's a great ambient display/conversation starter.Try it out, you can have it display news for 11 different countries, and the colored sections represent World, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, Health, Nation, and Business. These can also be turned on or off. The stories get darker as they get older, too.
The Concept:"Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of info" ... "Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. [Newsmap takes that] further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe." ... "Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it."How awesome is that?!
Credits for Newsmap.
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