As we approach the end of the year we’d like to announce a number of enhancements to both our News and UGC Metabase products.
Over the past few months we have been particularly busy growing our coverage of news and social media sources, with much more still to come in the New Year. The UGC Metabase now serves around 750k posts a day from our spam-free White List of social media sites. This represents a 200% increase in volume from earlier in the year, and coverage has now jumped to 435k feeds watched with a further increase due by year-end. Coverage has particularly been boosted over platforms like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia to deliver a rich and diverse range of social media sources now being watched, along with other microblogging platforms, consumer reviews, forums, Q&A sites and more. We have also increased the number of social media feeds with geotagging, so users can now easily list and organise sources by nationality and region.
On the News Metabase side of things we now index over half a million news articles a day from 32k sources, a twenty percent increase in recent months. Other improvements to the news side include enhancing the way we identify and tag article authors and recently growing the number of news categories available to 800. The full complement of news feeds can be seen here : http://w.moreover.com/public/free-rss/prebuilt-feeds.html
We’d love to hear any queries or reactions to these changes, so feel free to drop us a line below!
December 18, 2009
CNN.com, one of the most popular websites in the U.S., has unveiled a rather radical and exciting new layout.
The new design makes the most of CNN’s strong branding, and it’s great to see user-generated content in the form of iReport being given the opportunity to shine.
So what do you think? Is it an improvement on before or is there still further to go before mainstream news sites really take advantage of their communities?
October 27, 2009
