QUICK VIEWS
Default Home Page
The default home page for each portal is a River of News in reverse chronological order. You may Preview an article (pop-up), Retweet it, or get directed to its source. This page also includes a Tweet count and a live Twitter Widget customized for that portal.
Latest Stories by Newsgroup
A newsgroup is a grouping of media sources, for e.g. Blogs, Magazines, Main Media, Company News, Twitter, etc. This View will display the articles in their respective Newsgroup. You may click on any Newsgroup to see articles exclusively from this Newsgroup.
Top Stories
This View displays the most popular articles in the past 36 hours.
Semantic Map (also called Connections Map)
This View reveals the hierarchical Taxonomy of the portal.
NAVIGATION
Each portal has a different Menu structure which reflects the Taxonomy for that portal. The Sub-Menu choices typically include only a sub-set of the complete Taxonomy. These are quick
REFINE BY
Inside each Connection page or Search Page, you may Refine the results by a Time or by another Connection.
RE-SEARCH & CONNECTIONS LINKS
Clicking on [+] at the top of a page or a Newsgroup reveals a number of convenient features for navigating within related Connections, and for Re-searching that article on Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, Friendfeed or Backtype. You may also Share the article with the most popular social network, Email it direcly or Save it.
FOLDERS
There are 2 folders. A Read it Later Folder will place selected articles in a scrollable window in the left margin. If you hover to the left of the title of each article, a clickable Read it Later icon will appear. The Personal Folder allows you to return to Saved articles in that Folder.
SEARCH
You may search by using regular Boolean expressions and by placing keywords inside quotes if needed.
NEWSMAP, TRENDS & ANALYSIS
You need Java installed for your browser for this function. The Newsmap will place articles in hotspots around the globe. The Analysis function performs a visual semantic query on 3 Connections and displays the results in a Venn diagram. Trends is a 30-day histogram by Connections frequency.
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
Manage your Email subscriptions and preferences via the Account Management screen. The custom Email function is very powerful if you like to receive alerts on a specific set of Connections.
STATISTICS & DIRECTORY
The top 10 Hot Companies, Hot Connections and Hot Sources are displayed in a cloud, and reflect the past 24 hours of news activity. A Directory listing allows you to jump to useful resources related to that portal.
PERSONALIZATION
Currently, the only user-level personalization possible is via the Email digest where you can select up to 10 Connections. We will be incorporating user-level customization features in future releases. If you require a Portal-wide personalization, please email us.
GOODIES: TWITTER, RSS & WIDGETS
Each Portal has a Twitter Channel where we output all Headlines into a Twitter stream which you may subscribe to. RSS and website Widgets are available upon request. The Widget is customizable by Connection. Please email us with your need.
Please email us directly if you have further questions. We are in the process of setting-up a help/support online forum.