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Times Wire: New York Times Experiments With Real Time News, FriendFeed Style

Source: ReadWriteWeb

May 12, 2009

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Earlier today we wrote about the new version of the Times Reader desktop app, notable for swapping from Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Adobe's AIR platform - a significant win for Adobe over its RIA (Rich Internet Apps) rival. The New York Times has followed up with another new for people to read its news online. This one is called Times Wire and it aims to be a real time 'river of news', taking a large leaf from the book of Twitter and Friendfeed. The site is described as "a new layout of New York Times news in reserve chronological order." It updates every minute with the latest news and blog posts from across NYTimes.com.

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Times Wire readers can choose to view the full stream of content from across the site or just the Business & Technology section. More interestingly, and much like FriendFeed, users can customize their view from their favorite sections and blogs. Times Wire also features a photo gallery, displaying the latest news in pictures.

Times Wire is the first NYT product built with its own Newswire API. The product will be officially

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