Reuters Insight

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Posted by John
on Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Reuters Insight

Not too long ago back in '99 I did some work for this amazing company; based in their London Docklands office building up their tech-team.

Today a friend dropped me a line about a new service Reuters is offering which looks pretty nice.

It's based around something like SharePoint providing a portal for all your business news, reports, post questions, blogs, etc. within the news network.

I'm saying Sharepoint, but now looking into the source I have to say I'm quite surprised!

The actual system is powered by Prototype with the FCKEditor providing textual input into the the system. Prototype obviously provides the AJAX functionality as (like mootools) it's one of the major JavaScript-AJAX libraries around, (and being plugged into Rails from the start is just a bit popular).

Will wait and see how it goes, but so far the service is pretty promising.

Take a look for yourself...