NewsCloud's Community Starter Blog

India News Site is Latest to Use NewsCloud

Check out Indiali.com (on Facebook as an app here), the latest Facebook application powered by NewsCloud's free, open source software. The Indiali news community began as a Facebook page and has grown to have 3.3 million fans. Indiali's using NewsCloud to improve the quality of community features that they can offer.

As we've discussed before on this blog, Facebook pages are quite limited and don't offer a way for news startups to monetize their traffic.

If you want to learn more about Indiali, you can find its founder Aravind Chandreasekaran on Facebook or contact him through the application.

NewsCloud's free open source Facebook software is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through April 2012. NewsCloud can be installed easily in minutes and hosted for less than $45 per month.

NewsCloud Presentation Slides from AEJMC 2011 in St. Louis

The slides from our presentation at AEJMC last week are below. Also, here are some of the additional links we mentioned about NewsCloud working with universities:

NewsCloud at the University of Washington in the classroom

NewsCloud in research with the University of Minnesota 

"The story's gonna break tomorrow, it's on the internet."

- from West Wing Season 1, "He Shall, From Time to Time..." January 12, 2000