Knight Funds Facebook News Apps

The Knight Foundation’s grant to News Cloud to develop Facebook applications has just launched. The goal was to see how social networking sites can be used to spread news, particularly among young people.

One is general news, provided by the University of Minnesota Daily newspaper; the other is concerned solely with environmental news, provided by www.grist.org. A University of Minnesota researcher will study the effects of each of these apps.

The links are:
http://apps.facebook.com/mndaily

http://apps.facebook.com/hotdish