Iwitness: Update news based on geographic display

Recently, according to foreign media reports, the new context released a recent network application iwitness, with the design agency re-use path, can be based on time and geographical display from Twitter and Flickr update news, For social networking users, it's a thing to look forward to.

Iwitness mainly uses public geographic data to determine the geographic source of a tweet, picture, and video. It allows users to view real-time content based on a particular geographic location or a specific time period.

Company team members said the new app would be useful for journalists, especially when it comes to emergency reporting, and can be used to share eyewitness accounts of news events.

Currently, Iwitness only supports WebKit based browsers, such as Google Chrome and Safari, and is not compatible with Firefox for the time being. In addition, Iwitness is a visually pleasing application.

Iwitness has conducted beta tests in five national and local newspapers in the development phase, which iwitness as a news center to search for, identify and supplement daily news materials. In collaboration with re-use path, the results of the beta test were absorbed and some new features were added, resulting in the design of today's finished product.

"Iwitness can be said to be the most important tool for breaking news," Sonapater Sona Patel, a social media director at the Seattle Times. Journalists typically seek hand from Twitter for breaking news scenes, and Iwitness lets us quickly find key tweets and images. ”

Like most good applications, iwitness is also a very simple application. The structure is clear and allows users to quickly learn about a geographic flow of information.

In addition, users can also filter based on keywords, the following image is based on the keyword "soccer" information display

Users can also select content sources, such as Twitter, Flickr, or just browsing visual media content. In addition, if you want to speed up the news research process, you can narrow the time and timezone range and just look at the tweets and picture content at specific times, which is useful for important news events.

In short, iwitness is a very concise, well structured, beautifully designed, and very practical network applications. "We've been working with a good project, and we're delighted to see the impact of iwitness on the news agenda and News Mcdell," said Mike Doel of the New context. We have a close relationship with re-use path based on the agile approach, and end users feel that iwitness just provides what they need. ”

In the future, hopefully iwitness will be able to integrate more social channels, such as YouTube, to deliver location-based video clips to users.