Engage Web Weenie Impulse Drive
Oh. My. Goodness. I think I peed my keyboard. Check out 10 x 10.
Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10×10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.
It is an utterly amazing web app that makes me hate Flash less. Sort of like another favorite of mine, Newsmap, but with history and available datafiles.
