Google Living Stories: A news experiments
Google have been busy launching new projects every now and then. Today, a new Google project popped up in Google Labs that is a unique extension of this effort. It’s called Living Stories, and its goal is to provide a new and efficient way to read news coverage on breaking stories from one location. The goal is to create specific pages where you can view all of the coverage on a story.
To understand the beauty of Living Stories, check out this news coverage of Battling Swine Flu by The New York Times. The page you are taken toward is a rich multimedia experience, complete with a timeline outlining key events, a sidebar that breaks down coverage (Global, vaccine related and etc), and an RSS feed-like display of recent articles. It’s clean and simple, but effectively explains key issues.
Now if Living Stories are able to aggregate the news and materials from different sources, be it either from mainstream media or alternative media, we will be able to read the news in different Point of Views without bias.
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