Kynetx App Contest: Similar News Stories
NAME: Similar News Stories
DESCRIPTION
When the user is on a major news site, this app will attempt to provide up to 20 links to similar news stories from other sources.
BACKGROUND:
This is a contest entry for the Kynetx App Contest. Go check out Kynetx if you haven’t yet— it’s a really nice platform for building context-based applications. Sort of like what hoodwink.d was for commenting, but you can do a lot more than just comments.
USE CASE
User reads a news article; User wants to see how other news sources are reporting the same story; User clicks the “Similar News Stories” bookmarklet and they’re given a list of links to matching news stories.
WORKING?
This is mostly working for me, although I have a few kinks to iron out. The current news sources it is targeted for are: CNN, NYtimes, LATimes, WSJ, DailyKos, FOXNews, Yahoo, Reuters, HuffingtonPost, and MSNBC (I’m having issues with a few of these currently).
When I have time I’d like to iron out the search algorithm, try to weed out links that point back to the same article, etc.
HOW TO INSTALL
- Easiest way: drag this link to your Bookmark Bar and click it whenever you’re on an article: Similar News Stories
- Have Azigo? try the ‘Similar News Stories’ card.
- Browser Extensions? I haven’t made these yet, but can if you need one!
EXAMPLE ARTICLES
Once you’ve installed, here is a sample NYTimes article, here’s one for WSJ, and here’s one for HuffingtonPost.
