Ampparit.com is a Finnish online

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portal founded in 2004. The service provides its users with an easy-to-use list of news headlines, consisting of material from Ampparit's more than 250 media sources. It is also possible for users to search for news of their special interest. In addition to the news service, Ampparit.com includes a news map, a weather service, a TV program schedule, an online video service and a

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. The site can be customized by creating a user profile, which makes it possible to filter the contents by source, category or headline.

Versions

Mobile versions

Two mobile versions of the service have been developed. The text version, Ampparit Mini, is designed for

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with small screens, whereas Ampparit Lite serves the owners of devices with larger screens. Applications for

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and

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users are also available. The possibility to create a customized user profile was introduced in autumn 2009 for Lite, and in October 2011 for Mini.

Witpik

Witpik is a professional

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tool. In 2006, Joensuun Tiedepuisto Oy (

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Science Park Inc.) organized a business idea competition under the name Ideka 2006. Ampparit participated with their idea Ampparit Pro – Business Intelligence, which won the third prize. As a result, Ampparit Pro was further developed into an information search service. During the winter of 2010, its name was changed to Witpik Media Monitoring prior to an expansion into the

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n market. In the following spring, a mobile version of Witpik was introduced.

Reception

In a research conducted by TNS Metrix, Ampparit.com was the 30th most visited Finnish website during the week 48/2011's statistics on different web browsers. The site has more than 300,000 visitors per week, and one of the highest user return rates. According to the data from TNS Metrix and a survey by Digitoday, Ampparit.com is the most popular

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in Finland. It has been estimated that Ampparit.com, or news aggregators and

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in general, bring significant numbers of visitors to small news sites. Their effect on larger websites is much less significant. In spite of this, Ampparit and other similar services have managed to increase awareness of headlines' importance also among larger media companies.

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External links

Ampparit Official Website
Finnish websites Internet properties established in 2004 News aggregators