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Real-life trending topics: Behavio unlocks your smartphone’s senses
“When you leave the house, the three things you usually take with you are your keys, your wallet, and your phone,” says Nadav Aharony. One of those three things is a “sensing and processing machine,”...
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Signalnoi.se mines social media for real-time analytics for news
What drives an online journalist crazy? Not knowing why a story failed to get good traffic. What’s worse? Wondering why a similar story from a competitor seemed to set the Internet on fire. It’s a...
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Recovers.org builds a platform to structure data to improve local diaster relief
During an emergency, one of any community’s most important asset is information. And that’s at least as true in the period after an emergency. When a flood sweeps through the streets or a hurricane...
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Knight-backed Peepol.TV aims to be a social network for live video
When student protestors took to the streets of Santiago last year, Felipe Heusser watched as the press covered the darkest side of that movement, seeming to ignore the kiss-ins and superhero costumes....
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While Apple and Google bicker, Knight invests in open maps
September was a big month for maps: Amazon released its own Maps API to challenge Google’s hegemony. Apple, locked in a corporate feud with Google, dropped Google Maps in favor of a homegrown solution...
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Knight funding expands IRE’s journalist-friendly Census site
Census data can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be the bane of your existence. At one point or another, most journalists have tried to wade into the U.S. Census website or Census.IRE.org. Now the...
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