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Implementation
This application is accessible through broadband interactive TV platforms such as Media Center PC. Media Center PC is a computer powered by Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition. It's a complete Windows XP-based PC enhanced for home entertainment. Media Center combines the television and the functionality of the PC into one-screen platform. It can also be hooked up to a television that can be navigated with handheld remote control from across the room. Users can also use a wireless keyboard and mouse.
System Architecture
It has become more time consuming to keep up with all the news information available on the Internet. When people find a valuable news site, it takes work to keep up with developments they want to follow. They have to make an ongoing effort to regularly visit the site. This creates a role for news feeds and news aggregators.
Basically, a news aggregator is a software program that automatically retrieves RSS feeds from multiple Web pages. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML format designed for sharing web content like news headlines. News feeds come in a number of standard formats and are relatively simple items of code that can be retrieved and read by news aggregators and may contain headlines, summaries, excerpts, full text of articles, links, and even images. The benefits of news aggregators and news feeds are:
- Users do not have to visit each news site individually. Once they find a site and subscribe to the feed via their aggregator, they get their information automatically
- News information from a large number of sites can be reviewed in a short time.
- Feeds can be sorted by subject into different categories
- Feeds can be added and deleted easily
- Information can be dealt with quickly and efficiently
The system architecture of this project rests on a news aggregator in order to retrieve news feeds from multiple sources. By automatically retrieving updates, users can stay current with new content soon after it is published.
Functional Specifications
- Accessible through broadband interactive TV platforms such as Microsoft Media Center PC
- TV-centric interface with an "L design" layout
- Keyboard and mouse/remote control input
- Ability to retrieve news from multiple sources
- Macromedia Flash/ActionScript for the purpose of prototype development
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