NowPublic Scan (nowpublic-x2.mov)

This is an instructional video on using NowPublic's, the world's largest participatory news network, Scan technology, a new tool that contextualizes and geolocates information from various unconventional sources (including microblogs, such as identi.ca, Pownce and Twitter), and makes it accessible to a general news consuming audience. With Scan, the power and immediacy of Web 2.0 is neatly packaged for a mass audience. Each NowPublic Channel will have Scan functionality which allows users to see or do the following:
 See which NowPublic members are near a given story location;
 Track who is micro-blogging about a topic, where they are located and what they are saying;
 See when the most activity on the topic occurred;
 View the most popular links within a given topic;
 View recommended microblogged posts;
 Flag content as being high quality and pertinent via social search.