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The Google Earth Blog informs us of CBS offering their News in Google Earth in a convenient manner. From the blog: "They put a lot of stories in the same city (Washington, DC, NYC). Now when you click on placemarks on the same city they spread out into a star pattern allowing you to see all the stories from that location. By the way, the news stories are usually accompanied by nice relevant photos and a link to more details. Often video accompanies the stories once you go to their web page. Very professional multimedia content."

Ahmed Adam writes "I just put up an early beta of webmapp.com, a social news site with a local focus. Users can submit, comment on and rate news stories, articles or websites, but every item must be accompanied by a set of coordinates. Visitors are only shown items that fall within a user specified region. There's also a georss feed for each section." See also related links below: several news services now have geospatial features.

Here's an interesting map mashup using Yahoo!Pipes linked to on AnyGeo Blog. From the write up: "The app grabs news from google news (yes indeed, GISuser.com news gets crawled by this news crawler - a great benefit of getting your news listed here) and displays on the map where you can then scroll through the results, view a synopsis and click-through for a full read if the caption looks interesting."

This reminded me of another news application called newsmap that aggregates google news, visualizing stories in boxes proportional to the amount of coverage they are receiving using a treemap algorithm. Very cool. Now if someone could only combine both concepts: amount of story coverage and georeferencing to a news app...