Geoviu online at www.geoviu.com !

And back again after 3 months of hard work on the Geoviu Beta version!

First of all, as you might have noticed since July 23^rd, you can find Geoviu at the following address: www.geoviu.com. Geoviu is currently fully operational considering only its basic possibilities for now: showing the daily news from 4 sources (CNN, BBC, New York Times and France 24), auto updated every hour for the Hot News (star icons) and every 6 hours for the daily news (divided in 8 categories: politics, economy, sustainability, science, technology, society, culture and sports). Furthermore, you can use the Weekly Report (still developing it), showing the Hot News from the past 7 days.

Since Geoviu’s official launch 12 days ago, we started to advertize it by registering to many startup/entrepreneur/technological websites such as Dotopen (www.dotopen.com), Vator.tv (http://vator.tv), You Noodle (http://younoodle.com), Digg (http://digg.com) and social websites such as Twitter (www.twitter.com) and Facebook (www.facebook.com) with a Facebook Fan page on which we currently have 81 fans.

This led to 3 articles written on Geoviu, one German: http://www.buzinkay.net/blog-de/2009/07/geoviu-news-auf-der-weltkarte/ and two Italians : http://jacopofarina.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/geoviu-visualizzare-informazioni-e-news-su-una-mappa/ ; http://www.geekissimo.com/2009/08/01/visualizza-le-notizie-su-una-mappa-con-geoviu/, and Geoviu has now about 1320 references on Google.

What we are working on right now:

1-The platform:

a-finding a way to avoid having markers on top of each other;

b-pictures in infowindows;

c-a new widget with all the information in a grid format;

d-interactivity with our community (login, react to information, star the most important information to you).

2-The database:

a-adding new sources;

b-improving the Weekly Report;

c-working on the Monthly Report;

d-improving the categorization/prioritization/geolocation of the information.

3-Advertizing/communication:

a-adding Geoviu to more startup/entrepreneur/technological websites;

b-making 1 or 2 videos about Geoviu.

If you have any comments (good or bad) or wishes for future improvements on Geoviu, do not hesitate to comment on the Feedback option (bottom right on www.geoviu.com), or on our Facebook Fan page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Geoviu/96081356905?ref=ts) and we will answer you as soon as possible!

Thank you all for your support!