contextify @contextify

Contextify didn't make it into the next round of the Knight News Challenge. Boo, :( etc.

Some rough notes on how Contextify works, part one: http://is.gd/iJFH4 and part two: http://is.gd/iJFH3

A talk given by @jayrosen_nyu to the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp) about the future of context: http://is.gd/iERUR

Looks interesting — boilerpipe, a series of algorithms that detect and remove webpage clutter: http://is.gd/ivR5I

Google is now talking about location as an element of 'contextual discovery': http://is.gd/iryjU

How Reddit's ranking algorithms work: http://is.gd/ioJ6N

Google TV and Twitter... could you deliver context across different media? http://is.gd/ikLqf

Had some links we wanted to share via the blog today, but Tumblr's borked. Argh!

Have you seen Bitly News? A tracker for the most popular links through Bitly, presented in hacker news style: http://is.gd/i8wqn

Google's 'Living Stories' experiment closed down earlier this year. The code lives on, though, available at: http://is.gd/i6uSI

Yesterday saw the official launch of @ExplainerNet, another exercise in contextualisation: http://is.gd/i6cNU

"Serendipity is not, in fact, at all random. In reality, it's quite scientific': http://is.gd/i5SdO

A few new posts on the blog today, including some conceptual sketches: http://is.gd/i3isW

RT @LauraGlu: Found http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/the-avc-network.html interesting wrt @contextify as well. Social + factual context?

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We're entering our project in the Knight News Challenge. See it here, and vote if you like us! http://is.gd/hXmhn #knc