A new iPhone app from Zensify called ZenNews combines social media and networking with popular news sites to present a “popularity” visualization with tag-clouds, providing an interesting visualization of what’s trending in the social media world.
When you open ZenNews up, you see keyword clouds for the news stories that are currently gaining traction and being discussed across the world. The bigger the cloud, the more coverage or discussion associated with the topic.
Click on a keyword and you can further drill down a specific aspect of that keyword (so clicking “Pakistan” might lead to clouds that include “bomber” or “coordinated”) and clicking on those keywords will lead to a list of stories from various news sources. You can also view keyword clouds from specific news sources, like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The BBC and even TweetMeme
The app is available in iTunes (link).
via Zensify Combines News Visualization and Social Media on iPhone.
