1. My Personal News
Miro Bojic | Peter Banach | Emiliano Castaño | Agata Rączewska
October, 8th 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010

2. On the agenda today:
✤ What is the problem?
✤ Our idea
✤ The magic behind it
✤ The prototype
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3. What is the problem?
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4. What is the problem?
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5. Our idea
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6. Our idea
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7. Our idea
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8. Our idea
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9. Our idea
Fashion in Paris
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10. Our idea
Fashion in Paris
MacBook Air
shortage
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11. Our idea
Toxic spill
in Hungary
Fashion in Paris
MacBook Air
shortage
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12. The magic behind it
✤ How is everything linked together?
✤ stories: summary from wikipedia
✤ articles and media: from sources
✤ geographical position: from geonames
✤ information about persons and concepts: from wikipedia
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13. The magic behind it
✤ Importance
✤ relevance (personal background)
✤ personal preference
✤ "buzz" generated on social networks (times shared, tweets etc)
✤ Nr. of reads (both by our website visitors and everyone on the web)
✤ source credibility
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14. The magic behind it
✤ Entities that come together on ✤ factual information
our website ✤ time/date
✤ story ✤ descriptions
✤ article ✤ story summaries
✤ media (photo, sound, video) ✤ places
✤ social networks ✤ people
✤ Facebook ✤ concepts
✤ Twitter
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15. The magic behind it
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16. The magic behind it
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17. The magic behind it
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18. The magic behind it
✤ Rely on existing markup methods:
✤ Open Calais
✤ TimesTags API
✤ DBpedia
✤ GeoNames
✤ OpenGraph from Facebook
✤ etc...
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19. The prototype
My Personalized News
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Toxic spill in Hungary Lady Gaga dressed in beef 'One year' to clean toxic spill in Hungary Toxic spill in Hungary
Lady Gaga designers beef shoes Wikipedia.org Read more
'One year' to clean toxic spill in Hungary The Vogue - 1 hour ago Telegraph.co.uk - 22 minutes ago
Hungary says it will cost tens of millions of dollars and take at least a year to clean up the damage caused by a spill of industrial toxic red sludge.
Telegraph.co.uk - 22 minutes ago
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Liverpool bought by Boston Red Sox owners
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Minister reports health Sick children Mother seeks help Minister reports health
But the takeover by the New England Sports Guardian BBC News Hungarian Daily Guardian
Ventures requires resolution of a legal dispute with
the Reds' American owners Tom Hicks and Gillett. 23 : 45
Minister helps
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Guardian
'One year' to clean toxic spill in Hungary
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The Hobbit Row Telegraph.co.uk - 22 minutes ago
Sam Neill criticises over The Hobbit row Related articles
Hungary says it will cost tens of millions of dollars and take at least a year to Hungary says it will cost tens of millions of dollars and take at least a year
BBC - 1 hour ago
clean up the damage caused by a spill of industrial toxic red sludge. to clean up the damage caused by a spill of industrial toxic red sludge. Hungarian chemical spill is eco disaster
Read more Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill has criticised New The Guardian - 2 hours ago
Zealand's government for getting involved in an Emergency workers are trying to stop the spill, from an alumina plant, from Hungary has declared a state of emergency after
ongoing row over The Hobbit. toxic sludge burst from a chemical plant, killing
Red Dread: Toxic sludge spills swallows towns flowing into major waterways, including the River Danube. A state of emergency Hungary MAL Zrt Toxins Minister Zoltan
YouTube - 1 hour ago Read more has been declared in three western counties after the chemical waste burst from three adults and a child of three.
Hungary has declared a state of emergency in a reservoir. Four people are known to have died, and 120 were injured. Six Read more
three regions after deadly toxic sludge flooded two more are missing. At least seven villages and towns are affected including
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villages on Monday, killing four people. Devecser, where the torrent was 2m (6.5ft) deep. The flood swept cars from Mexican Oil Spill
Nobel Prize in Chemistry roads and damaged bridges and houses, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of Yahoo! News - 2 hours ago
Molecule building work wins Nobel residents. The sludge - a mixture of water and mining waste containing heavy Dredging has created a huge sand berm,
Sci Journal - 1 hour ago metals - is considered hazardous, according to Hungary's National Directorate
Hungarian chemical spill is eco disaster General for Disaster Management (NDGDM). While the cause of the deaths has
photographed Monday, that has helped restore the
The Guardian - 2 hours ago Three scientists have shared this year's Nobel Chandeleur Islands.
not yet been officially established, the victims are thought to have drowned.
Hungary has declared a state of emergency after Prize in Chemistry for developing new ways of Read more
toxic sludge burst from a chemical plant, killing linking carbon atoms together.
'Desperate effort'
three adults and a child of three. Read more
Hungary says it will cost tens of millions of dollars and take at least a year to
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Some 600,000-700,000 cubic metres (21m-24m cubic feet) of sludge escaped Mentioned in the article clean up the damage caused by a spill of industrial toxic red sludge.
from the plant, 160km (100 miles) from the capital, Budapest, affecting an area
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of 40 sq km (15.4 sq miles).Environment Minister Zoltan Illes told the BBC the
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Red Dread: Toxic sludge spills swallows towns
financial assistance from the European Union. He described the spill as
YouTube - 1 hour ago
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Hungary has declared a state of emergency in See more
Hungary MAL Zrt Toxins Minister Zoltan three regions after deadly toxic sludge flooded two
villages on Monday, killing four people.
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Emergency crews struggle to clear toxic sludge in Hungary
Telegraph.co.uk - 22 minutes ago Hungarian chemical spill is eco disaster
The Guardian - 2 hours ago
Hungary toxic sludge flows towards Danube as state of emergency declared
Hungary has declared a state of emergency after
Mail Online - 1 hour ago
toxic sludge burst from a chemical plant, killing
Hungary emergency after red sludge spill three adults and a child of three.
One News - 2 hours ago Read more
Hungary declares emergency after red sludge spill
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