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Revision as of 05:02, 24 June 2010
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Type of site | Citizen journalism |
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| Owner | MaYoMo B.V. |
| URL | http://www.mayomo.com/ |
MaYoMo is a user-generated news site for mobile citizen journalism. The site is owned by MaYoMo B.V., which is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. MaYoMo, short for "Map Your Moments", was officially launched in October 2009.
Content
Global news and local stories by the site's community of contributors are geolocated on an interactive world map, depending on the place they have happened. With an "Ask for News" option users can request news and information about particular events from any place of the world .[1] The news content is ordered at a timeline, according to its date of action. One can set the time indicator to any year and date between the year 1895 and 2100 for a narrower search criteria.[2] Users can comment and also rank on a scale from 1 to 5 on each news submission.
MaYoMo hosts user-generated video news about virtual worlds like Lineage II, Half-Life, World of Warcraft, FIFA, Second Life, etc, on "Virtu", a so-called virtual continent, placed between North America and Africa.[2]
In February 2009, MaYoMo had 60,000 videos from 130 countries.[3] The site is available in 10 languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, French, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.
See also
References
- ^ Mayomo: A global mission for user-generated news, www.journalism.co.uk.
- ^ a b MaYoMo: News has a new face, Chicago Flame.
- ^ Amateur video wins prestigious journalism award, San Francisco Chronicle.
External links
Category:Citizen journalism Category:News websites Category:Online journalism Ferryca (talk) 12:29, 23 June 2010 (UTC)