[img src="http://sale-online.click/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Kyoo-home.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt=""]Name: Kyoo
Quick Pitch: Kyoo is a social media aggregator that intelligently finds, indexes and displays social content surrounding a topic on one dashboard.
Genius Idea: Social media-sourced channels for keeping up with hot topics.
Information travels faster than ever thanks to always-on social media services and an ever-expanding online community of accidental and intentional citizen journalists who document and react to breaking news stories and events. Kyoo aggregates it all to create all-in-one dashboards, called "kyoo channels," around trending topics.
Kyoo is structured a bit like a newspaper. It features hot topics bubbling up in U.S. News, World News, Business, Science & Tech, Entertainment, Politics, Sports, What's Viral and Lifestyle sections. You can browse sections or search for topics of interest.
Each topic page is an amalgamation of topic-related tweets, public Facebook status updates, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Delicious bookmarks, and top news stories from Digg and Reddit. It reminds us of the social media search engines of yore, albeit with a slick interface designed for consumption.
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You can follow the real time buzz in the left-most column, keep an eye on the photos and videos flooding in via the center section, drill down into a social heat map to see where the buzz is coming from and look at the latest posts associated with the trends-within-a-trend.
With a broad spectrum of channels, Kyoo provides a real-time, contextual glimpse at what's happening in the world based on the updates pouring in from social media sites, making it akin to a crowdsourced 24-hour news network.
Kyoo is free to use for consumers, though it does offer a separate business product for companies that starts at $349 per month. The business versions allows organizations to aggregate and display content on their own sites, with moderation tools, in a similar fashion.
Series Supported by Microsoft BizSpark
