(new realtime results) OneRiot.com - Find the Pulse of the Web A few weeks ago, a small team from @WalmartLabs visited the offices of OneRiot in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. OneRiot has developed some pretty nifty technology that analyzes social media signals from popular networks like Twitter and Facebook to deliver ads that are relevant to consumers’ interests. As our teams debated the finer points of Big Data, Fast Data, and machine learning technologies, it became clear to us that we could find no better colleagues than the guys at OneRiot. As a part of Walmart, we're continuing to work with the intensity of a technology startup. Today I’m pumped to share the news that, within 30 days of that first meeting, we have closed a transaction to acquire the key assets of OneRiot. The technology team at OneRiot will move to Silicon Valley and become part of @WalmartLabs in September. As I have written before, here at @WalmartLabs we’re doing some amazingly interesting and impactful work at the intersection of social, mobile, and retail.
for Windows - Seesmic Seesmic has been acquired by HootSuite and as of March 2013, the Seesmic website is no longer supported. But HootSuite welcomes all Seesmic users into our nest! Here’s how you can start using HootSuite today. Making the transition to HootSuite: Getting started is easy. What this means to Seesmic users: Like Seesmic, HootSuite offers a suite of social media management tools for business, with even more options for SMB and enterprise customers. To get a clearer picture of what this means to users, we have prepared a comparison chart that will help you choose the right solution for you.
The Bootstrapper's Bible <A HREF=" Widgets</A> Issue 8 | The Bootstrapper's Bible By Seth GodinPublished Nov. 16, 2004 3:00 p.m. Available to you once again! There's never been a better time to start a business with no money. Download About Seth Godin | Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. View 7 other manifestos by this author Request Processed sobees - your social desktop aggregator First Look: IRL Connect Brings Facebook and Twitter to Google Ma When Google’s Latitude location service launched, one of the main problems users experienced was that the service only located users’ Google contacts — it didn’t include access to the most popular social networks, through which many users connect with friends. Therefore, it was only natural that someone would use Google’s Maps API and build a location service around social networks. In Real Life (IRL) Connect, based in Amsterdam, opened a private beta this month that allows people to locate their Facebook and Twitter contacts on a map and interact with them on the social network from the map interface. I checked out the service, and my early verdict is that it has potential but maintains the same limitations as other location-based services — mainly, people need to opt-in in order to maximize its usefulness. IRL Connect features an interesting location UI: Icons showing a user’s location aren’t defined by an avatar, but by their network first. But there’s a problem here.
Twitter StreamGraphs By: Jeff Clark Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 I just posted a new application in my projects section called Twitter StreamGraphs. It is an interactive tool to let you create StreamGraphs from the latest tweets containing a given word or from a particular user. A few examples are shown below. The application shows a StreamGraph for the latest 200 tweets which contain the search word. The StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the words most highly associated with the search word. Credits go to Lee Byron for the visual ideas behind the StreamGraph (although I'm using a simpler symmetrical form), to Processing for the development tools, to Martin Porter for the Porter Stemming Algorithm, to Vaga for the two small icons, and to Summize for building a great API into the Twitter data.
The Reveal: Killer Apps for A Successful Twitter Network (Pt.2) I hope you’ve already embarked on a Twitter-search journey since the clickable chart. If not, then hopefully this post could prompt you to actually utilize some of them, as we’ll be digging a little deeper into these Killer Apps. Let The FUN Begins!Take a look at the overall structures of each application, what can you conclude from it? **Click the image for Enlarged Version** Obviously, there’s no such thing as the PERFECT Search App ! Up Close & Personal, With The Apps…Let me pre-warn you, there is no ‘definite’ answer of which is the best app to be used. ~Click here for enlarged image. Cautions: You should always be careful whenever a site is requesting you to login via Twitter username/password. Meet The Killer Apps! People & Keyword Search1. Score: 4/5 Specialty: -Ease to use with (almost the best) real-time results. 2. Score:2/5 Specialty:-Nice sky-blue background (for those who’s fed up with plain white backgrounds). Score: 3/5 Search People On Twitter 4. Score: 4/5 Location Search6.
Tree Adventures TwitOnMSN - Use Twitter on your MSN! New 2008 Social Technographics data reveals rapid growth in adop by Josh Bernoff Data is my secret weapon. Every time I visit a company, we bring data we’ve collected about the social behaviors of their customers, structured according to the Social Technographics Ladder we introduced last year, a technique we rang the changes on in chapter 3 of Groundswell. When I go to Vanguard, I show them the profile of their customers – and their competitors'. I went to a company that makes replacement hip joints – I showed them the profile of people with arthritis. I just came back from Brussels, where I showed a bunch of direct marketers how Europeans participate – and how many people who resist direct marketing still embrace social technologies. But data gets old, especially in the rapidly changing social world. Forrester clients can see our complete analysis of the 2008 data in a document we just published, called The Growth Of Social Technology Adoption. I find it just as interesting that the Creators group grew only slightly, from 18% to 21%.