Yippidu WorldNews application covers news in English for the following countries: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia/New Zealand, India and China.

Yippidu WorldNews aggregates news stories from the top 10 leading online news providers for each country. For each story, Yippidu WorldNews provides title, author(s), publication, a short snippet of text (< 200 chars) from the original article. Links to the original information and attribution to the original publication are provided for each article.

For each country, Yippidu WorldNews automatically creates the “hot topics” category of news. Based on semantic clustering techniques, Yippidu WorldNews automatically identifies the leading topics of the day and presents a list of the most recent articles that belong to that subject. Also, related articles and named entities (tags) are automatically extracted from the original text.

Yippidu WorldNews application for Blackberry devices is based upon the Yippidu Mobile News platform for efficient and effective news delivery to smart phones. By organizing content, optimizing delivery and profiling information according to user preferences, Yippidu Mobile News provides instant information to the professional who doesn't have the time to sift through the multitude and magnitude of events, news, research and developments occurring every few minutes.

Yippidu Mobile News platform is a fully automatic solution that after an initial setup phase (managed by KipCast) provides a continuous stream of news articles to a fully branded native Blackberry application. The client Blackberry application can be downloaded on-the-air (OTA) or from RIM App World. Yippidu aggregation platform provides the background support for content indexing, tagging and searching. Yippidu automatic content synchronization delivery keeps the client Blackberry application always up-to-date on different categories of information.

Product Overview and Architecture

> Architecture: Yippidu platform for efficient delivery of no-lag information relies on a native Blackberry client application and mySyndicaat standards-based aggregation/syndication server platform (since 2004). The native Blackberry application can be downloaded on-the-air (OTA) or from Blackberry App World. mySyndicaat syndication server platform is provided as SaaS to its customers as part of this solution.

> Protocol: Yippidu mobile client relies only on the standard RSS 2.0 protocols (JSON/GZIP physical format) with support for the standard Etag HTTP header for RSS optimization. The efficiency of Yippidu platform for mobile publishing derives from its top-notch aggregation/platform that supports duplicate removals, automatic and manual filtering and URL-based automatic feed creations. KipCast believes that smart information gathering is the preferred method for mobile efficiency and effectiveness. Yippidu Mobile News platform does not rely on proprietary protocols between mobile clients and its RSS 2.0 syndication platform.

> Aggregation: KipCast can provide a turn-key solution to its customers by leveraging its content aggregation and delivery platform. In the aggregation phase, KipCast can seamlessly turn any corporate information into standard RSS 2.0 content without technical involvement by its customers (if content is available on the web or corporate intranet).

> Delivery: Yippidu is KipCast's leading platform for information re-publishing on traditional (web) and non-traditional environments (such as widgets, aggregated views, social software, mobile sites and mobile applications).

> Seamless Aggregation: Yippidu can seamlessly aggregate and index any corporate information into its standards-based enterprise syndication platform. Aggregated content is available to users on desktops and smart-phones as standard RSS 2.0 stream (XML/JSON/GZIP).

> Search: you can easily search all content aggregated by Yippidu. Users can search the entire archive from smart-phones or desktop or individual categories of information.

> Related Articles: For each aggregated article, Yippidu aggregation engine accurately identifies related articles from aggregated content and marks each article accordingly.

> Categories, Tags, etc: all aggregated articles have Yippidu-generated link tags that identify source, category and (when available) related named entities (persons, locations, events). Mobile users can select link tags and browse all articles sharing those tags.

> Archive: Yippidu Information Corpus archives and indexes all aggregated content. Typically, Yippidu saves all content for the latest 3 to 6 months.

> Re-Use: Yippidu not only provides you with content for mobile smart-phones but also delivers the same content as RSS, widgets, clipboard, e-mail, PDF and blog posts. This facilitates company-wide knowledge sharing.