Ok.. so what is this?
AstronomicalNews is an experiment in automatically extracting information from web sources as events happen. A bit like a live news desk on a news channel like CNN, but as a website and where the presenters are robotic.
Why?
This site, as of writing, makes no revenue. It is a place for us to try out some interesting technology.
Sources and Technology
- Automatic Categorisation using OpenCalais
- Information Extraction using REVERB
- Search Data from Google Insights for Search
- Photos from Flickr
- Facts extracted from a number of sources
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To make this clearer, our office monkey has created this fffuu comic
