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BOSS Developer Fuses Yahoo News With Twitter To Create TweetNews
TechCrunch —
... In his blog post describing the new release, Singh explains that Yahoo News results are ranked solely by the time at which they were published, which is a poor measure of relevance. Some news sites try to measure the relevance of breaking news by looking at how many news publications have covered the same story, but this doesn’t work well for breaking news, as more stale stories tend to rise to the top because they have more related articles. ...
Yahoo BOSS + Twitter + Google App Engine = fresh news
Webware.com —
... presents Yahoo news search results in a different way, using results from the same search on Twitter to determine what should get high placement, according to a blog posting about it by BOSS engineer Vik Singh. ...
Twitter, Yahoo Boss Mashup Yields Impressive News Search Engine
Wired: Epicenter —
... news, but Twitter posts are short and sometimes ill-informed or even wrong. So while Twitter is an amazing tool for finding the story, it isn’t the best place for getting the whole story.
For that most of us turn to traditional news outlets, such as those aggregated by Google News. But Google News relies on algorithms to rank stories, and while the algorithms are pretty good, they aren’t necessarily as fast as the news.
That’s why Yahoo BOSS engineer Vik Singh created TweetNews. TweetNews takes Yahoo’s news results and compares ...
Twitter Enters the Yahoo Search Big-Time
Tech Observer —
... to find breaking news, but Twitter
posts are short and sometimes ill-informed or even wrong. So while
Twitter is an amazing tool for finding the story, it isn't the best
place for getting the whole story.
For that most of us turn to traditional news outlets, such as those
aggregated by Google News. But Google News relies on algorithms to rank
stories, and while the algorithms are pretty good, they aren't
necessarily as fast as the news.
That's why Yahoo BOSS engineer Vik Singh created TweetNews. TweetNews
takes Yahoo's news results and compares them to ...
Sorry Google, You Missed the Real-Time Web!
ReadWriteWeb —
... This BOSS developer understands that real-time needs context and that that comes from archives, and you need search for that. BOSS and Twitter make an awesome combo. Both are API-driven and enable tons of creativity and value creation from the community. ...
TweetNews Mashes Up Twitter with Yahoo! News
SitePoint —
... However, despite its flaws, Singh’s idea has merit. “Twitter as a ranking signal for search freshness may prove to be very useful if constructed properly,” writes Singh in a blog post. With work, TweetNews could definitely work well at exposing the most relevant and up-to-date news stories regarding breaking news. ...
Openly BOSSing around the Internet
Betanews —
... reorganizes Yahoo's news feed to present results in the order that Twitter excitement would indicate they'd be in if an interested human was arranging them on the page (rather than a time stamp). The app was developed by Yahoo engineer Vik Singh. Twitter? Google ?! The good news is that early word from inside Yahoo says that Bartz feels positive about Yahoo's search business. Her feelings on open services? Not yet known. And, ironically, the top story on TweetNews as I wrap up this story is a ...
Product Pulse - January 16, 2009
Yodel Anecdotal —
... News with Twitter? A breaking news search engine. Yahoo! engineer Vik Singh took his brainchild, Yahoo! BOSS (or Build Your Own Search Service), and put it to use to create what he calls TweetNews. It’s a clever mashup that takes stories on Yahoo! News and combines them with topics that are spiking on Twitter — a new way to find news that is both timely and important. And another great marriage of traditional and social media. Give it a whirl. More here and here.
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Delicious Tries to Borrow Some Twitter Magic [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... It’s a wise strategy for Yahoo to take advantage of the popularity of Twitter and incorporate features related to the microblogging site to add some novelty to Delicious. The new tab, called “Fresh Bookmarks,” was based off Yahoo architect Vik Singh’s Twitter application called TweetNews, which aggregated the most popular Yahoo news stories being discussed on Twitter, Singh said in a ...
