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10 cool Twitter visualisation tools

10 cool Twitter visualisation tools
You might think of Twitter as a way to chat with your friends, keep up with news or to hassle minor celebrities. We think of it as a ceaseless stream of data that only really becomes useful when you filter and sort it. Here are 10 tools for doing just that, with a twist. 1. Enter any Twitter account name in TweepsKey and you'll get a visual representation of their follower's activity. 2. One among a number of apps from developer Jeff Clark at Neoformix, StreamGraphs is a keyword visualiser. 3. ISParade is a Japanese slice of digital lunacy which went viral about a month back. 4. Putting the twee back into tweet, Tori's Eye converts Twitter output into origami birds flying over a crafty landscape. 5. Getting a bit serious again, Revisit displays a timeline of tweets based on Twitter's search syntax. 6. There are several visualisers that display tweet frequency on maps, but few as compelling as TweetFlare. 7. 8. Visible Tweets. 9. 10. Liked this?

TweepsKey Stowe Boyd - Surrender To The Stream, And Be Happy Streaming apps — based on the open follower model, or variants of it — will be the dominant motif of the web for the foreseeable future. And this is having an impact on everything that touches it, including our sense of time. A great deal of research has shown that that our perception of time is quite malleable. For example, we have all experienced boredom as making the clock slow, and, an the other hand, how time seems to move more quickly during periods of happiness or excitement. Can this be exploited to make work more fun? Robert Levin, A Geography Of TimePsychologists and planners have sometimes used the “time flies” phenomenon to their advantage. Management may have a hard time accepting the soft benefits of time compression and the way that tools modify our consciousness, but they will readily accept improvement in productivity and work attitudes. Note that incentives can be amazingly minimal: just the positive regard of close contacts can be enough.

Twitter StreamGraphs A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the search word. The default search query is 'data visualization' but a new one can be typed into the text box at the top of the application. You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the '@' symbol to see the latest tweets from that user. A parameter to the URL can be used to specify the initial search word. For example, use to see the latest tweets about coffee. Some great posters for new work by @Ghostsinarmour in Newport

IS Parade HTML5 and Even Fancier Forms It’s a brand-new world for those of us working in the web industry. Browser vendors are ahead of the game, and are implementing HTML5 support before it becomes a W3C standard. Many web developers are already taking advantage of this by coding websites in HTML5. There’s the much ballyhooed video element, which allows you to serve streaming videos without Flash; there’s semantic document markup with elements like article and section. At first glance, you may be disappointed with what HTML5 currently brings to web forms; each browser is implementing the new elements slightly differently, and the most impressive features are yet to be fully ready for prime time. Let’s take a closer look at HTML5 forms, and uncover today’s practical applications while peering into tomorrow’s bounty. Introducing New Input Types The current draft of the HTML5 specification brings with it 13 new input field types. Take a look at all the new input types in your browser. note: What’s up doctype? Figure 1.

The 12 Best Ways To Customize Your Facebook Pages When a service such as Facebook limits users’ creative freedom, it is inevitable that other add-on services will overcome this limitation. This is why then, we see more and more Facebook tab apps that give us more control and freedom when it comes to customizing a fan page or a personal profile. I can’t really understand why Facebook doesn’t create an editor that lets users create a super fan page. I’ve written about this subject over, and over, and over again here at TechCrunch. Please note that starting today, if you own a page on Facebook, you will need to customize the page under your tab to a width of 520 pixels. But I digress. Miproapps—The newest service around, Miproapps allows users to design a fan page by simply dragging & dropping elements to the center of the page. How it works: You just need to log-in with Facebook Connect, then the service will recognize your existing pages. Cost: 1 free page/ad supported. Tabfusion is an ultimate tab suite for your fan page and profile.

Cut Time and Costs: Social Media Monitoring How many browser tabs do you need to open to get a feel of where your company is currently standing on the social media front? Let’s count: 1. Facebook 2. Twitter 3. Imagine instead, a single window that could monitor every single one of those services and give you a full and customizable report minute to minute. At Dealmaker Media, we recently signed up for a service (SWIX) to monitor all of our social media, and as a result, my job of collecting data weekly to track our analytics has become nearly obsolete. There is NO shortage of options when it comes to monitoring your social media, and in fact, while doing some research, I easily found 40 + companies offering some form of social media monitoring. “We’ve had people who use nothing but Sprout Social, and when we had to shut it off briefly, they would call us and freak out because they couldn’t remember how to use each platform individually.”Ryan Howard- CEO of Sprout Social in Chicago Business Article by Danny Ecker

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