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TagSoup

My blog entry explains and points to 2 prototypes - a tech news tag soup page and a business news tag page.

Both use BBC feeds (amongst others) in combination with the Yahoo Content Analysis service which generates keywords against the content of the BBC feeds.

I then use a bit of php/mysql jiggery-pokery to rank the popularity of certain phrases/keywords in order to present these two tagsoup pages:

http://www.justinflavin.com/tagsoup/tagsouprss.php
http://www.justinflavin.com/tagsoup/tagsoupfinance.php

Both pages are updated every 2 hours with some back-end cronjobs.

I've found that its a different way to browse the news headlines - rather than the headline , you're drawn to keywords.

  • 15 May 2005 03:42 PM

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