We’ve just launched a new channels one for this weekend’s London Marathon. Keep an eye out for other channels as we are adding channels regularly. If you think of a channel and we don’t have it then do let us know and we’ll look into it!
Please note that the channels may take a little time to populate so do check back for them for new info.
With the Formula 1 racing back on this weekend this time in Gulf Air Bahrin (Sakhir) we thought it would be a good time to launch a Formula 1 channel. As you can probably imagine the channel is full or all sorts of news and announcements about drivers, races and the politics sorrounding the sport.
As a fan of motor racing I couldn’t miss the opportunity to aggregate the content into one place to see all the action, the close up shots and the mayhem that goes along with every race. I’m looking forward to maybe seeing live twitpics coming up too! Citizen journalism at it’s best!
In order to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday we’ve got a Shakespeare channel. There are lots of fun things such as talk like Shakespeare on there. Join in the conversation by linking to your favourite Shakespeare quotes, books etc and you may end up on the channel!
Today we launched a new channel just for following the top stories around the UK Budget announcements. Why did we do that? Well as a company we see the budget and understanding it’s implications as pretty important. As such we felt that it was also going to be important to those people in the UK to be able to find all that information in one place. We do hope it will be useful to you all.
Look out for other top channels and trivia from the budget by following @talktweetmeme.com
I find the content that comes through twitter amazingly varied, this is both great for getting interesting content, but also with the growth of twitter a lot of the content can be outside my personal zone of interest. So today we start along a path of categorizing the content so that it is easier for users to find the top stories that they have a particular interest within.
The concept of hashtags is well known on twitter and we wanted to leverage the hard work some twitter users put in hashtagging content correctly. We have built a engine that picks out #hashtags and keywords and uses that data to selectively put stories into relevant channels.
We have put together 4 simple channels live today and will be looking for ideas from the community on the kind of channels they would like to see built. This is a very much proof-of-concept and there is a lot of tweaking still to be done.
If you have ideas on what kind of channels you would like to see us build (they dont take long to setup!) please drop us a comment or use the feedback tab.