Die meisten Smartphone-Nutzer kennen Augmented Reality, also das Einblenden von Web-Informationen zu einem realen Bild, aus diversen iPhone-Anwendungen. In der Isarrunde machen sie Michael Praetorius, Michael Reuter und Chistoph Elzer über die Möglichkeiten Gedanken, die in dieser Technologie stecken. Christoph Elzer ist sich sicher, das Augmented Reality eine große Zukunft bevorsteht. Allerdings sieht er die Möglichkeiten nicht auf Handys beschränkt. Er könnte sich Brillen vorstellen, die auf Wunsch Zusatzinformationen einblenden, beispielsweise Preisinfos im Supermarkt.
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April 2010
20. April 10
19. April 10
News Curation in the Social Media Newsroom on YiGG
Inspired by Robert's blogpost on news curation we've started this experiment. With YiGG we've been providing a Social News Platform since 2006, where news-addicted users have been reading, adding, commenting on and recommending news.
Some of Robert's ideas we've implemented already, others we haven't yet. As always, the easiest thing for us would be to develop this "curation thing" step-by-step - following the seven 'needs' he described in his post.
For us management of news always has been and most likely will be a smooth combination of algorithms and user behaviour. Today, 5 days after our first discussion, we've launched the first step: the Social Media Newsroom SMN. Being a part of the well known Weltspion, the SMN shows those news stories people care about most - on the Internets outside of YiGG (as you will see, we show stories in English and German language).
With 2 clicks users can tweet these stories or add them to YiGG Neueste Nachrichten and to their accounts, respectively. This part of the SMN is the algorithmic one.
Another part of the SMN is the user generated one: by adding a "tip @yigg" to any tweet, users can send news URLs to YiGG. If those URLs belong to known and trusted sources, stories will be added to Neueste Nachrichten, automatically. If those domains are unkown, they appear as user recommendations in the SMN and can be aded manually. The YiGG team will check those sources and add them to the pool of trusted URLs. By tipping YiGG, users can influence the stream of news shown on YiGG!
Next steps will focus on the story detail page. Now the detail page concentrates on a story - we'll allow more users to edit a story detail page to turn it more into a topic detail page. This means we'll modify our story concept from "user centric" (i.e. the user owns the story) to "story or topic centric" (all users can curate and enrich stories).
As always we love to read your feedback!
12. April 10
Finding Relevant News
Many of us complain about information overkill these days. Others - one of them is me - reply with: There's no information overload, there's just selection failure.
Anyway - those of us in the news business are trying to find ways to ease the daily consumption of news for the user by ranking, weighing, recommending etc. At YiGG we have launched the project 'worldspy' with that goal exactly: we try to 'detect' relevance of news we find in the world wide web and display those relevant stories to our users who, adding their individual tastes (recommendations, comments, etc.), again curate those stories.
Bottom line: our approach is a combined effort of both, algorithm and user generated relevance. First two day's results are promising - we're really looking forward comparing the results with the user generated only alternative we had before!
03. April 10
Congrats to my friend, journalist and appstory.tv colleague Richard Gutjahr!
Video: Richard Gutjahr from appstory.tv and the very first iPad
The original plan was to become a part of the hardcore Apple Fanboys queuing up in front of Apple's 5th Avenue Flagship Store and do some authentic blogging right from the street. Then, Richard, who pre-ordered his own iPad a week before, was advanced by an Apple store manager and he was told that he would be the very first person getting his hands on the iPad. No 8 in the line, and having pre-ordered the iPad made it.
Congrats and many thanks for bringing the German fan crowd very close to 5th Avenue, Richard!
