Pointslocal is proud to announce that Gatorsports.com, the premiere location for “Gator Nation” news, information and community, has launched a Pointslocal widget to aggregate Gator and SEC news from the Web.
Making use of the Pointslocal aggregation platform and the natural language processing, Gatorsports.com has now automated a method to augment their coverage of Gator and SEC sports. Welcome, Gatorsports!
While the Pointslocal platform has always performed basic topic tagging and allowed for filtering content based on those tags, we are pleased to announce improvements designed to enhance editors’ ability to rapidly roll out custom “Topic Pages” and widgets.
Whether used alone or combined with geo-tagged metadata to create specific collections of content, this improved capability promises to open new doors to publishers for cost-effectively enhancing their aggregation strategies.
Tidesports.com, the premiere online source for news, information and community for Alabama’s Crimson Tide has integrated a Pointslocal widget to enhance their coverage by aggregating Tide news from around the Web.
While using the same platform and natural language processing that powers the hyperlocal aggregation on other partner sites, the Tidesports integration is an example of purely topic-driven aggregation.
We are pleased to announce that Boston.com has re-launched the first of several planned “Your Town” hyperlocal community news sites to be powered with the Pointslocal aggregation platform.
Using the Pointslocal Ajax API to integrate hundreds of local blogs and media sources, Boston.com has established a cost-effective and industry-leading model for expanding their reach and improving the quality of news and information available to residents throughout Massachusetts.
Pointslocal is proud to be a partner in this innovative endeavor to transform online journalism. We will be working closely with Boston.com to help bring quality, relevant hyperlocal news and information to the “Your Town” communities.
Pointslocal is pleased to announce that The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, part of The New York Times Company, has launched the Pointslocal Geopost widget on their news pages to enhance their local user experience with geo-tagged content. Welcome, Santa Rosa!
Pointslocal is pleased to announce that our new API is ready for prime time and we expect to launch our first partner sites with it in the coming weeks.
The API integration method for delivering geo- and topically tagged collections of content will allow for extremely tight integrations with new and existing publishing efforts on partner sites. Partners can now use any or all of our integration methods – javascript widgets, hosted pages or the AJAX API – to enhance their hyperlocal and aggregation strategies.
We are pleased to announce that Boston.com, part of The New York Times Company, has chosen Pointslocal to power their “Your Town” hyperlocal sites. Boston.com will be using the Pointslocal platform and API to aggregate and display their own content as well as hundreds of local blogs and other media in hyperlocal sites focused on towns throughout Massachusetts. In the coming months, Boston.com intends to launch dozens of “Your Town” sites to expand and enhance their reach in the region while providing top quality news and information specific to each of those communities.
Pointslocal is proud to announce that Times Shamrock Communications, in conjunction with the redesign of their Pennsylvania newspaper Web sites, has implemented the Pointslocal Geopost widget on their news sites.
Using the Pointslocal natural language processing capability, they will be automatically tagging their own content and displaying it on our Geopost Map widget in order to improve their user experience and to drive traffic throughout their sites.
Today, SFGate.com, part of the the Hearst Corporation, and Pointslocal, have launched the first of several planned hyperlocal sites: “In Alameda” (http://www.sfgate.com/widgets/hyperlocal/alameda/index.html).
Using the Pointslocal platform, SFGate is aggregating hundreds of regional blogs and media sources and geo- and topically tagging that content. SFGate is using both the hosted platform and the Geopost Widget to create a new hyperlocal experience for their audience throughout the Bay Area.
