This is probably what Eric Schmidt meant when he told newspapers they need to innovate.
Google News Timeline lets you play around with different sources and types of news and create a timeline.
For example, a mash-up of blog posts from this blog and quotes related to the Kindle 2 over the last week look like -
Kindle 2 Review Blog Timeline over the last week
And you can look at Kindle coverage over the week, months, years, etc.
Last Week:
Kindle related news coverage over the last week
2007 November:
Kindle November 2007 News
Overall, its mesmerising and the amount of ways of looking at news is overwhelming.
You can select from a variety of news sources -
- Newspapers
- Blogs
- News Photos
- News Quotes
- A lot more.
And you can view ’by day’, ‘by week’, ‘by month’, ‘by year’, and ‘by decade’ views. It even has newspaper editions from 1896 etc. Also, its created by Andy Hertzfeld (part of the Apple Macintosh dev team in the 1980s).
At this point don’t know what to think – it is pretty cool, and at the same time it seems that first with News Quotes, and now with News Timelines, Google are deliberately teasing newspapers.
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