Storyful. Microsoft Introduces Montage, a Magazine-Like, Topic-Based Web App. At LeWeb yesterday, Microsoft demonstrated a pretty, new way to curate the web's information: Montage. Montage looks and feels a lot like a glossy magazine web or tablet app. It works by allowing the user to pick a keyword or two; the application then pulls data and content from a variety of media-rich and real-time sources, including YouTube, RSS feeds, Twitter and Bing News.
The content is then arranged on the page in a grid format — you get to choose the exact layout — for your own consumption and for sharing with others. For example, we used the term "Christmas trees" to create a Montage of our own. We picked a fairly standard web-magazine format, then we were able to customize each "widget" or compartment of the layout with a WYSIWYG editor. We added images, a Twitter term trend chart, news articles and more. When the editing part was done, we were able to tag our visual scrapbook, share it with our Facebook and Twitter networks and then publish it to a unique web page.
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