Future:Media:Change

GoogleLabs launched Living Stories last year, as an experiment with content partners The Washington Post and The New York Times. While the experiment has now finished,  Google has open-sourced the code it and made a Wordpress plug-in to boot.
The video explains the concept but for the skim readers, Living Stories, basically brings current events into a wider context by providing a background on a current news stories, by serving up related information about the event/issue, instead of traditional search which returns information mainly about the incident itself.

Living Stories was …

Six days in Rio and I’ve found the city brimming with a incredible network of organisations and projects using the web, film, sports, art, and research to foment lasting change. Read on to learn about the cutting-edge online community Viva Favela and Cara Mundo that uses film, graffiti and football to tackle the curse of armed violence.

The Future:Media:Change team is pleased to announce the sale of this blog to Koch Industries for an undisclosed sum. I assure you, it’s a hell of a lot of green!

A city awash with arms and with a homicide rate higher than most of the world’s conflict zones, Rio de Janeiro is suffering from a culture of fear. Affecting everyone. Filmmakers are aiming to tell stories that make a difference.

While his Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams and the rest of the South by Southwest Interactive crowds were bouncing between dueling Foursquare, Twitter, Mashable and Stumble Upon parties last night, Biz Stone was announcing his membership in the UN’s “Social Media Envoy” — through a tweet of course.

Follow the Live Feed.
Beth Kanter is hosting this session with other greats like Amy Sample Ward. Check out the Live-blog of user tweets. @karinab is Tweeting up a storm. Click the “FMC @ SXSW” navigation link to see all our live coverage from SXSW Interactive Festival.

Hashtag: #CrowdX
Tweet Maven: @ClaireSale

It’s on. Less than two hours after the 3pm registration kick off, South x Southwest is buzzing with people picking up their badges, grabbing their goodie bags and pitching themselves to strangers in the hope they might be an investor, buzz up, or buy their product. Follow our coverage on Google Buzz and F:M:C Wire.