Some more newsmap

All you knows the famous NewsMap, a flash based application that use TreeMap technology to represent Google news.

After a long time, there is a new web based application for news reading ( the name is still “NewsMap” ) that is based on Ajax and RSS technology.

Some more info:

NewsKnowledge and The Hive Group have joined forces to bring you News Maps, visual maps of the NewsIsFree headline database.

News Maps allow to quickly scan dozens of news articles and instantly understand what’s being reported all over the world.
Each square in the News Map is an article and it’s possible to obtain additional details simply moving the mouse over it or read the whole article clicking on it

News headlines are organized by source and size and color information indicate article age and popularity.
News could also be filtered and rearranged in order to meet certain criteria, or that contain certain text.

The NewsMap is also based on the “Popularity Newsrank Concept”, that means that the algorithm takes into account a variety of anonymous data collected by it:

• Ranking of clicks on stories from this news source
• Ranking of subscriptions to this news source
• How popular is a news headlines (Ranking of it’s clicks against a click band)
• How many Weblogs refer to this headline

What I could say ?

Web based infovis solutions are growing up…