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We’ve all seen it. Companies are advertising on television or through their own websites and when they say they have a Facebook page or Twitter account, they’re taking you to that service. You’re no longer centralizing that conversation. It’s going to be impossible for you to tie it all back together.02.08.2011– SAN FRANCISCO—Echo (www.aboutecho.com) today launched StreamServer, a new cloud platform that gives media companies, brands and startups the power to aggregate and control content and activity from their site, social networks, applications and more into one real-time database. Echo unveiled the new platform this morning before a large audience at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art alongside NBC, Reuters, Sports Illustrated, Interscope, and other customers already working with the new service. Like never before, the Internet is awash with activity information.
Announcing Echo StreamServer, AppStore | Echo
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Echo Launches "Real-time as a Service" StreamServer and App Store to Help Media by Msr Communications
NBC, Reuters, Sports Illustrated and Interscope Records among Customers Touting New StreamServer based Products at Public Unveiling. (1888PressRelease) February 11, 2011 - SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Echo (www.aboutecho.com) today launched StreamServer, a new cloud platform that gives media companies, brands and startups the power to aggregate and control content and activity from their site, social networks, applications and more into one real-time database. Echo unveiled the new platform this morning before a large audience at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art alongside NBC, Reuters, Sports Illustrated, Interscope Records, and other customers already working with the new service.
Synaptic Web
The Internet is constantly evolving. As the speed, flexibility and complexity of connections increase exponentially, the Web is increasingly beginning to resemble a biological analog; the human brain. But what exactly is it that’s makes us, or the Web, smart? In the brain, neurologists now believe that it is the density and flexibility of the connections between neurons, not simply neurons themselves, which are at the root of intelligence. These chemically-mediated connections are called "synapses." Even if the total number of brain cells, or neurons, begins to diminish in early adulthood, our ability to generate new connections between neurons and between different parts of the brain – what neurologist call “plasticity” - persists throughout life.
Essay: Real-time Storytelling | Echo
For mainstream media to survive, if not thrive, it must embrace social media and take on the critical role of curator of the conversation. For social media to remain relevant and avoid slipping further into a wall of noise, it must work hand in hand with news organizations to create a symbiotic storytelling relationship. The result will be a kind of curated grassroots conversation that has the authenticity of social media and the reach and authority of mainstream media. The story so far… The past 5 years has been hard for the mainstream media.
When Storify appeared on the collective journalism screen a few weeks back at TechCrunch Disrupt , it inspired a lot of oohs, ahhs and speculation as to how it would work for journalists . There are similar curation tools out there, like KeepStream and Curated.by , though they focus primarily on collecting tweets (Correction: KeepStream also allows for Facebook integration). Storify, on the other hand, allows a user to organize various media (text, documents, video, images) and social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) into an orderly, linear presentation. The story pieces retain all of their original links and functionality – and the full presentations are embeddable on any site. It has a very easy-to-use search for social media keywords and works using a drag-and-drop functionality.
10 ways journalists can use Storify | Zombie Journalism
Storify is a recently developed tool that allows users to aggregate Twitter messages, Facebook updates, online video and more into a aggregated chronology that contains links to the source material. Essentially, Storify makes collecting and displaying web content in a timeline format incredibly easy. While my appreciation of Storify is no secret (Kevin Sablan recently constructed a Storified collection of my mentions of Storify ), it really is because the potential the tool has to reinvent online storytelling. That, combined with its ease of use, makes it a great tool for journalists looking to elevate their online news coverage.
How newsrooms and journalists are using Storify - 10,000 Words
Conversation Agent: The Role of Curation in Developing and Transmitting News
A new frontier of opportunity is in the ways news is being developed, packaged, and transmitted . Curated filters are becoming more interactive. From the New York Times offering personalized news recommendations , to this past week's launch of TheDaily , a subscription-based app for the iPad i ndexed by Andy Baio on the Web , and the upcoming release of News.me .
I’m speaking tomorrow morning at the Social Media Breakfast for the San Francisco East Bay . It will be the third time in as many weeks that I’ve been asked to discuss social media trends. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
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Backchannels for et mer interaktivt foredrag | HansPetter.info
Har du holdt en presentasjon engang så har du sikkert lagt merke til at det foregår mye i salen. Noen visker, snakker litt seg i mellom, noterer av og til hva du sier på et papir, mens andre kanskje noteter digitalt. Det engelske uttrykket for alt som foregår “utenfor” presentasjonen er backchannel og ble utviklet innenfor lingvistikk tilbake i 70-årene for å beskrive lytterens atferd under verbal kommunikasjon. I dag har begrepet blitt tatt i bruk igjen for å beskrive alt som skjer i sosiale medier mens en foredragsholder foreleser. I dag er det feks ikke uvanlig at mange som deltar på en konferanse er ivrige under hele eller deler av foredraget med å oppdatere foredraget via Twitter eller Facebook, for å oppdatere og informere omverden om hva som skjer, nyheter som blir lansert, eller bare for å gi en status om hvor man er. Utnytt backchannel-diskusjonen til å skape en bedre presentasjonWill robots replace journalists? No. Well, maybe a few.
First let me just say that no, robots will not replace journalists. Robots will likely only replace jobs with particularly low cognitive loads. So, maybe press release re-writing bloggers, but not thinking, analyzing, interviewing, friendly journalists. In an on-going experiment called “ My Boss is a Robot ,” an alliance of journalists and computer scientists aim to combine the distributed human brainpower of Amazon’s small-task outsourcing engine, Mechanical Turk , with a robot boss pre-programmed to absorb a myriad of discrete human-accomplished tasks into something resembling the work of a single person. Niki Kittur, a Carnegie Mellon assistant professor of Human Computer Interaction and freelance science and technology writers Jim Giles and MacGregor Campbell are heading up the experiment.Interscope Records | Interscope.com
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What is Echo StreamServer? | Chris Saad
The foundation of the Web is moving from one of unchanging static pages to continually updated streams fed by external services. Gone is the time when publishing an article or a site was the final step in creating content. Instead, this can often signify the beginning of the content's life, as it is shared, retweeted, liked, commented on, and further distributed. Echo , a company that first made its name in the comments space, explained to a full hall of industry onlookers Tuesday morning that dynamic social experiences are going to rule the future of the Internet, further arguing they have placed themselves at the center of this trend, having built a flexible environment for people to tap into the activity streams and benefit from the Web's continued evolution, instead of seeing visitors capitulate to household name social networks.