The name Koko hints at the way journalists normally want information. Powerful and fast, yet precise enough to work from. Without too much learning a user interface, the user can peruse stories, perform searches, and get related material from subject headings and keywords retrieved from the news wire or the captions of photos. Central to Koko is the ability to project the dynamic nature of news feeds onto the user interface. News happen every minute, every hour, all year.
Old stories can suddenly become relevant.
Koko provides an easy to use retrieval and projection of news wires and photos. An option is to have a news ticker give you the latest on screen. After a typical search in Koko, the results are presented to the user as shown in Figure 1. Thumbnails of wire photos and headings from ordinary wires are combined and displayed top-down with the latest news at the top. When selecting a particular entry, photos can be downloaded in full size JPEG quality, wires are displayed in fulltext as well as formatted for copy-paste into f.ex.