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Magnify Creates Swine Flu News and Information Portal
NY-based Magnify.net has created a news and information portal around the swine flu outbreak. The portal includes videos from CNN, news from the AP, Twitter search results, videos from MSNBC, videos from around the Web and the Twitter stream from the CDC. They also include the swine flu map we posted yesterday.
It’s a smart move for Magnify as it gives the service some broad, mainstream traffic where users can see how the technology works. Other services should think about this and how they too can play off all important news events with their startups.
Not sure I would prioritize a general Twitter search so high on the page as the information is typically not researched and could provide poor information. Would rather see “official” news higher up on the page.
Allen, you’ve raised a good question – is twitter a ’source’ or noise, or both. We put up the CDC twitter feed, but it has no activity (no new tweets).
What you can’t see is that our TweetCaster includes a number of content filters – so we’re able to remove some noise with key word filtering, a ‘dirty’ word filter, and even the ability to remove Twitter users who are tweeting in a way that doesn’t provide a useful voice in the conversation. This is curation, and we’re still exploring the balancing act.
Would love input from your readers as to how they feel about Filtered Twitter, and how we should manage it -
What amazes me is how quickly things like this pop up. Whenever something happens it seems within 24hrs there are websites and apps tracking its every move. Pretty crazy from the old days of creating websites.