Percentag

About the Product

Percentag is a Chrome browser extension that helps readers access breaking updates on news topics or tags pre-selected by the user.

The focus of the news topics or tags can be adapted according to the needs of any newsroom and news audience.

Key Features

Percentag offers 2 main functions — following particular tags and providing a percentage match score that accompanies each article recommendation.

Users can follow multiple tags and Percentag will calculate the percentage match scores based on how many tags a particular article relates to their specific interests.

With the score, users can have a quantitative measure of how relevant an article is to them and then make more informed decisions about whether to read it. Having access to a curated list of articles with the highest recommendation score saves readers time and improves their browsing experience.

Percentag is a course project linked to the News Media Lab at Nanyang Technological University and is not a product of DealStreetAsia.

Future Iterations

We hope to improve the product through further iterations:

1. Create affiliate links to improve tracking.

2. Becoming a news aggregator side where recommended articles would come from many different news websites

3. Sorting feature: By news outlet, by region

Product Demo

• Go to any article from Dealstreatasia's website
• Use Percentag to save any tags you like at the tags tab
• Go to recommended tab to find recommended articles curated just for you