NewSpace curates community, dialogue and engagement amongst three important, interconnected stakeholders: parents, kids, and educators. Our research and interviews tell us there is a need for this and a lack of innovation in the space. NewSpace aims to change that. NewSpace delivers community, truth, and accomplishment. Community: NewSpace puts community back into the news. We deliver the 21st century version of a family gathering around the screen to engage with the news. Truth: NewSpace is impartial, unbiased and purely focused journalistic integrity. Parents, kids and educators are treated to the facts and have an open platform for discourse, debate and learning. Accomplishment: NewSpace creates an environment of learning for all stakeholders. Parents are engaged with their child’s work, kids are encouraged to participate and debate with friends, and educators are moderating complex topics in carefully constructed ways.
A news delivery mobile platform targeting Milennials through personalized, snackable visual images via gifs. Giffy News will deliver news in a jiffy! A simple, user friendly, personalizable .gif-driven platform that allows the users to consume news through gifs that will cater to Milennials that have short attention spans and favor meme-like products. With the popularity of Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, and Vine, .gifs have skyrocketed to become one of the most popular short video formats among young Milennials. A simple 2-5 second .gif will capture the users attention and allow them to quickly scroll through images to discover breaking, trending, international, local, and proximity based news. Giffy News’ backend will be driven by a proprietary algorithm that aggregates, pulls and organizes .gifs based on real time news pieces. Giffy News will source .gifs from social media, existing news publishers, third party vendors (i.e. Storyful, Giphy, etc.), and internal Giffy News user ecosystem. Through metadata cr…
Koti is a living portal to where users currently or previously lived, places where they called home. The device delivers relevant content daily to bring the user closer to home. The content can be as simple as the local time, current weather, or in-depth information about what is currently happening at home. To extend beyond audio content, the device also creates a more human connection by facilitating conversations through direct VOIP voice calling, audio message sharing, listening to news together while enjoying some friendly banter, and sharing audio news with friends and family from designated home locations. The network on koti is small and intimate, including only your closest connections. Koti is built on a curated news platform that delivers content from different geographic locations specified by the user. Koti news personnel gather audio clips from podcasts, television, radio, and the internet and deliver it through koti. Koti holds the most relevant content based on important and trending stories …
At present, we live in an era where there is a constant competition for our attention. Information overload causes us to unintentionally sacrifice or discount the context in which important information (such as news) is presented, relying upon superior curation instead. In a quest to find and choose more meaningful information, we change our expectations about what is relevant and often ignore the medium altogether. Our research suggests that news, as it is presented and made available today, suffers from two fundamental problems: content fragmentation and human isolation in its consumption. This project explores opportunities surrounding greater immersion and engagement with news content, within a context that specifically addresses these problems as well as key experiential meanings such as community, truth, wonder, and enlightenment. More specifically, we propose the creation of a physical and intentional information delivery space which creates awareness about international news and events through a var…
YOVO is a digital social news application that helps first- time voters determine where they stand on today's political issues, know how similar or different their views are from presidential candidates and other users, and allows them to speak out on the issues they care about. Curated news will be delivered over a mobile app from Twitter and Circa as well as content curated by the YOVO editorial team with key fact checking partners. In addition, the working prototype "Visulaizer" plots the user's political perspective in 3d space for the dimensions: 1) use of military action overseas, 2) environmental law enforcement, 3) income equality, and 4) the importance of social values (relating to marriage, abortion, God, etc). Woven into the app, users answer a series of questions that force them to take a stand, so as to winnow out political perspectives. For the prototype, we used questions from the highly regarded Pew Research Typology survey to establish positions along a greater-than/less-than scale. …