About NewsCloud

NewsCloud was an application that took all of the RSS feeds from the Washington Post website and built a blog like tag cloud from the keywords. Each story's full text was pulled from the website and indexed by these keywords. There were typically around 23,000 news stories and 71,000 keywords being indexed at any given time.

It was taken down in January of 2007 due to lack of interest. However, we find it great that so many news organizations around the globe have added "tag cloud" like aspects to their online sites.

NewsCloud *IN* The News

Technology Used

NewsCloud was written by Frank Wiles as an experiment. It uses a slightly non-standard LAMP like environment. Typical LAMP application use Linux, Apache, MySQL, and a "P" language such as Perl, PHP, or Python. The following technologies are used in NewsCloud:

This slightly different LAMP stack is the preferred development environment of Revolution Systems. Please visit the respective technology pages or contact us for more information about how your business can benefit from these Open Source technologies.

About Revolution Systems

Revolution Systems specializes in building extraordinarily fast and easy to use browser based applications for businesses and organizations of all size. We exclusively use Open Source software because we feel it is of the highest quality and allows us to offer our clients considerably reduced prices.

If you are in need of systems administration, support, or development with Linux, Apache, Perl, mod_perl, Sendmail, or PostgreSQL please contact Revolution Systems for a quote.

For more information on Revolution Systems please see our About Page.