Delivering categorized news items using RSS feeds and web services

In the past decade the massive growth of the Internet brought huge changes in the way humans live their daily life; however, the biggest concern with rapid growth of digital information is how to efficiently manage and filter unwanted data. In this paper, we propose a method for managing RSS feeds from various news websites. A Web service was developed to provide filtered news items extracted from RSS feeds and these were categorized based on classical text categorization algorithms. A client application consuming this Web service retrieves and displays such filtered information. A prototype was implemented using Rapidminer 4.3 as a data mining tool and SVM as a classification algorithm. Experimental results suggest that the proposed method is effective and saves a significant amount of user processing time.<br /

The Use of Social Media in Gathering and Sharing Competitive Intelligence

Utilizing social media in the business context is an issue of growing interest. This article discusses how social media can contribute to information gathering and to information and knowledge sharing within a company in the context of competitive intelligence. The research is conducted as a systematic literature review. The results show that so far only a few journal articles have been published discussing these issues. They propose that social media applications can contribute to competitive intelligence activities more in sharing than gathering information and knowledge. The common benefit received from using different social media applications seems to be the added value compared to using more traditional knowledge sharing tools

‘Where else is the money? A study of innovation in online business models at newspapers in Britain’s 66 cities’

Much like their counterparts in the United States and elsewhere, British newspaper publishers have seen a sharp decline in revenues from traditional sources—print advertising and copy sales—and many are intensifying efforts to generate new income by expanding their online offerings. A study of the largest circulation newspapers in the 66 cities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland showed that while only a small minority did not have companion websites, many of the publishers who do have an online presence have transferred familiar revenue models. It has also been recognised that income from these sources is not enough to sustain current operations and innovative publishers have diversified into additional broad categories of Web business models. Significantly, this study did not only compare the approaches of various news publishers with each other, but it also considered how active newspaper publishers were in taking advantage of the variety of business models generally being employed on the Web—and which opportunities were ignored

Improved User News Feed Customization for an Open Source Search Engine

Yioop is an open source search engine project hosted on the site of the same name.It offers several features outside of searching, with one such feature being a news feed. The current news feed system aggregates articles from a curated list of news sites determined by the owner. However in its current state, the feed list is limited in size, constrained by the hardware that the aggregator is run on. The goal of my project was to overcome this limit by improving the current storage method used. The solution was derived by making use of IndexArchiveBundles and IndexShards, both of which are abstract data structures designed to handle large indexes. An additional aspect needed to accomodate for news feed was the ability to traverse said data structures in decreasing order of recently added. New methods were added to the preexisting WordIterator to handle this need. The result is a system with two new advantages, the capacity to store more feed items than before and the functionality of moving through indexes from the end back to the start. Our findings also indicate that the new process is much faster, with insertions taking one-tenth of the time at its fastest. Additionally, whereas the old system only stored around 37500 items at most, the new system allows for potentially unlimited news items to be stored. The methodology detailed in this project can also be applied to any information retrieval system to construct an index and read from it

UTP WEB DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT

This report describes about the implementation of UTP Web Desktop Environment using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) as main programming languages. The UTP Web Desktop Environment is an online 'desktop' workspace for student where it contains multiple applications that can be accessed simultaneously within a single web browser. The system may promote a new way of experiencing web applications where students are given a bunch of ways to manipulate the system. The objective of the development of the system is to provide a web-based desktop environment that allows user to interact with the desktop workspace as same as user's computer operating system's desktop. Due to some limitation of conventional web applications where most of the content of it is static and dull, it is also the aim of this research to explore the feasibility of using AJAX as the main programming language since it make applications more responsive, interactive, and customizable. To carry out this study, some researches have been made by comparing the requirement of this system with a similar system, WebOS which leads to the objectives of this application. Based on the flow of RAD, the prototypes are developed along with the new ideas of designing it specifically for student's interest. Some researches have also been made about RSS and AJAX's components, requirements, and implementation to distinguish the advantages of using them rather than using other programming languages. The application is driven by EyeOS MicroServer which responsible for managing web server and AJAX compiler. By implementing this project for UTP student, the author can conclude that it will provides students with a cutting edge systems that never been applied before where students may find it very helpful and interesting to organize their live and work

Web Based Services Provided by University Libraries of BRICS Nations: A Comparative Study

The developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and their subsequent absorption in library and information science (LIS) have forced information professionals to change the way they are functioning at present. Because of their popularity with the users, an overwhelming attention is being given to the web-based information services in libraries .The web 2.0 technologies have rapidly gained huge popularity and as such, the university libraries, being the heart of the highest seats of learning, need to equip themselves with all the possible web based, i.e. web 2.0 and allied services. The present study made an endeavour to study the various web 2.0 and allied web based services offered by select university libraries of BRICS nations. This study shows that the web based services in the university libraries of BRICS nations are quite better. The findings show that India and china universities are far behind as compared to Brazil, Russia and South Africa in employability of web 2.0 tools in librarie

SERVER FOR A BEST SALE APPLICATION

The aim of this Master's thesis was to build a web server providing an Rest API endpoint which could be used to develop platform independent applications displaying online advertisement content for mobiles and tablets. Reducing wastage of paper, minimizing the cost of advertisement, improving the accessibility of the best discount offer for the end user/customer and maintaining the statistical data of online advertisements are some of the practical problems discussed in this thesis. To achieve that aim it was decided to develop a web service using J2EE with a Java programming language. A tomcat servlet container was used as the web server and MySQL database for storing the information. The advertisements information obtained from shop website as RSS content are polled, parsed and saved in database. This information is available for the application developer as Rest API endpoints pertaining to every shop categorized based on city. Although this project was an internal work during the Master's thesis project, the online advertisement concept still carries a significant potential for future upgrading and a wide utilization in the mobile market. The application and the thesis concept if realized will have overwhelming response from the shop and the end users

Towards E-Government 2.0: An Assessment of Where E-Government 2.0 Is and Where It Is Headed

The aim of electronic government (e-government) is to increase the convenience and accessibility of government services and information. E-government's past emphasized the automation of routine government operations. Modern e-government centers on Web-based delivery of information and services. As the Internet moves away from version 1.0, the author examines the literature for evidence and best practices on the adoption and use to date of Web 2.0 technologies in government. Despite evidence that Web 2.0 technologies have the potential to enhance knowledge management and citizen engagement, there remains a weak body of evidence on its adoption and usage. The essay explores the early evidence and suggests a path towards realization of the promise that e-government 2.0 holds. The path involves support and collaboration from a diverse set of stakeholders to study the impact of, as well as develop best practices for, using Web 2.0 technologies to improve government services and public administration