NewsNow is a news aggregator In computing, a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader, rss reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing service that was launched in 1997[1] with fewer than ten articles, it now links to thousands of publications including top news providers. NewsNow provides a service in which breaking news articles are matched against key-word topic specifications, the relevant links and publishers are then delivered to the user[2]. Other than Newsnow's main website which is freely accessible to private users, the company provides customised news feeds for corporate subscribers. The site also offers access via mobile devices, and offers a version tailored for the Opera Mini Opera Mini is a web browser designed primarily for mobile phones, smartphones and personal digital assistants. It uses the Java ME platform and consequently requires that the mobile device be capable of running Java ME applications. Opera Mini is offered free of charge, supported through a partnership between its developer, the Opera Software application.
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NewsNow uses a search function and a list of, colour coded, pre-built topics to allow users to find desired content. The site also provides the option to search related topics to articles users have already read, and saves up to 10 most viewed newsfeeds. The site also offers a full-text searching service to subscribers (non-subscribers are limited to headline searches for words or phrases). News articles clicked on by users are displayed in a pop out window. If the user enters a particular category NewsNow gathers as many articles as possible on the category and then displays them in chronological order. Beside each news line, there is an icon of the flag to represent the nationality of the news, which tells the reader at a glance, to which part of the globe the news belongs to.
Categories
- Hot Topics
This category is on the top of the homepage for popular breaking news, and creates new categories for important global events.
- Current Affairs
- World News
This category contains articles which affect a large proportion of the planet, these are usually major issues such as international summits or natural catastrophes.
- Business and Finance
This category contains articles on more or less anything money related, it includes major information on developments in the major companies as well as stock information.
- Science
This category contains articles from the scientific world, includes important research publications, new theory's, etc.
- Technology
This category contains articles to do with technology, includes reviews of new devices, anything related to technology, for example business information about a microchip manufacturer.
- Sport
This category contains articles of recent news in sports, NewsNow.co.uk also supports live scores which will allow the user to see the score of a match as it is happening in real life.
- Life & Style
This category contains articles to do with fashion, general points in life, etc.
- Arts & Entertainment
This category contains articles on films, theatre, music, games, etc.
Sources
NewsNow claims to search over 33,000 sources from all over the world in real time. NewsNow.co.uk adds approximately 100 new sources ever day, which are located by a dedicated research time. It searches through articles in 20 different languages in 141 different countries. In contrast to more conventional news feeds, these sources include reputable blogs and electronic journals. Users are given the option to exclude blogs from newsfeeds if so desired. NewsNow does not host or create any of the supplied articles. It searches through all the major news providers, as well as blogs, scientific and electronic journals.[3]
Ranking
NewsNow.co.uk is the 207th [4] most visited website in the UK, and approximately 50% of all its users are from the UK. Moreover, the site is generally visited by over 2 million users monthly and receives in excess of 100 million page views per month.
NewsNow has around 2 million pages indexed with Yahoo Yahoo! Inc. is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video)! and Google Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "[5]. It has a 20% market share making it the second largest news aggregation site on the internet second only to Google News Google News is an automated news aggregator provided by Google Inc. The initial idea, StoryRank—related to Google's PageRank formula—was developed by Krishna Bharat in 2001, the Principal Research Scientist of Google. No person is involved in the altering of the front page or story promotion, beyond tweaking the aggregation algorithm. Google. According to data from Hitwise Experian Hitwise is a global online competitive intelligence service which collects data directly from ISP networks to aid website managers in analysing trends in visitor behavior and to measure website market share. The Hitwise product is a commercial platform whereby customers pay Hitwise a premium to access data reports for their vertical. A, as of 22 August 2009, NewsNow accounted for almost 20% of visits to news aggregators in the UK.[6].
Business Model
Advertisement
NewsNow.co.uk creates revenue from its many free users through advertisement. Adverts are displayed on all of the sites webpages, clearly visible to anyone who accesses the site.
Subscription Service
NewsNow's second source of income comes from a subscription service. For a monthly fee, organisations can have a tailored news-feed sent to them articles connected to keywords specified by the company. For example a large company, such as IBM International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, North Castle, New York, United States. IBM is the world's fourth largest technology company and the second most valuable by global brand (after Coca-Cola). IBM is one of the few information technology companies (one of NewsNow's subscribers) can have all articles with any reference to IBM sent directly to them. The service claims that articles will be sent to the customer within 15 minutes of the articles being published on the original site.
News feeds can be filtered based on sophisticated key-word (and exclusion) profiles including context of the chosen words. News feeds are delivered to clients by email or by direct FTP or 'HTTP Push'.
Controversy
According to an open letter [7] placed on its site, NewsNow has been threatened with potential legal action by several publishers, including News International News International Ltd is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc, the publishers of the Times, the Sun, the Times and the News of the World. An open letter, written by Struan Bartlett, NewsNow's Managing Director and Chairman, claims that the publishers are threatening legal action over NewsNow's refusal to accept new controls over links to websites owned by these publishers. He responded to the comments from the News International with the following statement:
"We deliver you traffic and drive you revenues you otherwise wouldn't have received. The idea that we are undermining your businesses is incorrect. It is fanciful to imagine that, if it weren't for link aggregators, you would have more traffic or revenues. We provide a service that you do not: a means for readers to find your content more readily, via continuously updating links to a diversity of websites."
There has also been interest from the UK's Newspaper Licensing Agency regarding the use of news headlines search results [8], which they consider to be copyrighted content.
Infrastructure
Newsnow can be accessed via the following domain names; newsnow.co.uk, newsnow.org and newsnow.net, however, it cannot be accessed through "newsnow.com" domain name. This may be because there is already an existing company with a similar name ABC News Now ABC News Now is a 24 hour news channel offered via digital television, broadband and streaming video at ABCNews.com and on mobile phones. It delivers breaking news, headline news each half hour, and wide range of entertainment and lifestyle programs. The channel is currently available in the USA and in Europe. This station's "Talk Back" (American Broadcasting Company), who will most likely own the '.com' domain name.
References
- ^ "Companies House, Company No. 03435857, companieshouse.gov.uk, 2009". http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk.
- ^ "NewsNow,About, newsnow.co.uk, 2009". http://www.newsnow.co.uk/about/.
- ^ "NewsNow Brochure, August 26 newsnow.co.uk, August 26, 2008". http://www.newsnow.co.uk/services/brochure/.
- ^ "Statistics of NewsNow.co.uk, "www.alexa.com", 2009". http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/newsnow.co.uk.
- ^ "Number of links to Newsnow.co.uk, Wholinkstome.com, 2009". http://wholinkstome.com/url/newsnow.co.uk.
- ^ "Microsoft Bing News Search, Hitwise.com, 2009". http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2009/08/microsoft_bing_news_search.html.
- ^ "An Open Letter to the UK's national, regional and local newspapers; Struan Bartlett, Managing Director and Chairman, NewsNow; 20th October 2009". http://www.newsnow.co.uk/press/openletter.html.
- ^ web |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/10/nla-newsnow-subscription-services|title= PDA, The Guardian Digital Content Blog, November 10, 2009
", Growing Public Support for NewsNow on weblink charging, newsnow.co.uk, 2009". http://www.newsnow.co.uk/about/. ", NewsNow: HydroBlasting Content, arnoldit.com, 2003". http://www.arnoldit.com/articles/newsnow_final.doc.
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