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Yahoo! Launches Local News
prostoalex writes "Yahoo! News front page added local news today. Available for logged-in users right on the front page, local news are also delivered at location-specific URLs." There are a few words on the new feature at Search Engine Journal.
I got first "You're a jackass"!
...for those of us not in North America.
I was so excited, I almost wet myself...so I went to Yahoo Local News...and...disappointment, I'm asked which of the 50 States I'm in.
Although some people consider Canada the 51st state...it wasn't listed.
From a brief look at Colorado, it appears they've compiled a list of local media sources (I saw both print and TV) and are scraping the contest, showing the headline/first paragraph, with link (including click tracker) to the story on the original site.
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This looks pretty cool for my area, but had to type in the URL on my SideKick II to get it to load (javascript problem?) I like this
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This confirms Yahoo! want to be a serious provider of Location-awareness tools, such as Google and Microsoft are.
Spatially enabled Yahoo! tools now includes:
- This Local News announcement
- Yahoo! Maps, including APIs (more reading).
- Flickr (/. story about the acquisition) maps (undoubtly a similar service will soon be provided by Yahoo!)
- Probably other I forgot?
I doubt Yahoo! will join the Virtual Globes frenzy. With Google Earth, Windows Live, NASA WorldWind (and Punt), the competition is already fierce.
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The news are not delivered. The news is delivered.
Local news are available, huh?
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Why is this worthy of our attention? All they did was was create a new box that aggregates headlines form news sources near your zip code. Not exactly rocket science.
Several other sites like http://msnbc.com/ has been doing this for years.
In today's news, Yahoo! Inc. has sued Google Inc. for using their patent without permission. The patent, issued for localized news syndication transmission was issued to Yahoo! this month. This most likely was provoked by the trend to sue Google Inc. in hopes to get a share of their massive cash pool. Google could not be reached for comment.
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Karma schkarma
"Hopefully that will change though...I'm fairly certain that there are papers closer than that:)"
Don't worry, Blogs are the next thing in news.
Peter
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It's seriously making me reconsider setting up my own RSS fed news website for my own news gateway/needs. The local thing is kinda nice, but the scrolling highlight articles make me want to find a way to turn off javascript. (anything that does that like flashblock?)
I live in Buffalo, and it seems most of the stories have to deal with national issues, its just my local news reporting on them.
This might seem local to some of you, but I really want to hear the news from the three blocks around my apartment. Too often things happen that I can see from my window but I never see anything in the news regarding them.
I would very much like to empower neighbors to take pictures and write stories regarding truely local events.
Give us the power to be local journalists!!
I think I will still stick to using personalized Google News, where I can get local news (if I want to) in more than one ways:
1. By searching for keyword like "South Park, Colorado"
2. Using RSS feed (if available) of local news providers/local news sites
This is infinitely more customizable, and I have control over and access to more local news than getting local news from a predefined list of sources identified by somebody else and NOT ME.
I checked the local news for Princeton NJ (which is equidisant between NYC and Philly; many Princeton residents think of themselves as living in an exurb of NYC).
Most of the "lcoal" news was for Philadelphia, none at all for New York.
The issue here: each user needs to be allowed to draw a map of what that listener thinks is "local".
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... is this news story just really, really late, or did they drop local news some time ago then readd it? Several years ago I had a my yahoo account for local movie listings. The listings were right under my local news.
Not a single news source for the entire state of Delaware, nor for Eastern Maryland, despite dozens of good RSS feeds from local tv/newspapers. Eh, oh well, let's just ignore 2 million people.
I already had RSS sections set up in My Yahoo (and Google, for that matter) that grabbed headlines from my local sources, so this isn't *that* big a deal. It is kinda nice that they included the local free alternative newspaper, usually those kinds of publications are just plain ignored. Also very cool that there's a "Suggest a local news source" link on the resulting page when you click on the "All local news from..." link.
Yeah, heading down the path towards information overload...
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WOW! LOCAL NEWS! What a fascinating concept. This could change the way the world views news. Think about that. Not Global or even National. Local. Let's think about that word again; L.O.C.A.L. This is it. This is the turning point. It will NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN! Local news. *LOCAL NEWS*
Wow. AND YOU HEARD IT HEAR ON SLASHDOT FIRST!
The information age has truly begun!
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I quit!
I have had at leat 4 local news feeds on my http://my.yahoo.com/ page for the past 3 years.
Jesus, someone needs to get a clue here.