Announcing Echo StreamServer, AppStore
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. Those that have determined how to capture this data and create highly relevant social experiences have prospered. They are now household brand names. In response, many have tried to integrate simple Facebook, Twitter and other social media point solutions into their sites — but point solutions are not enough. Given the power but elusive nature of social media, today’s brands want: Control of the user experience
SynapticWeb / FrontPage
synaptic web « Collective Web
In previous posts, especially in those related to content mapping, I frequently referred to collective actions and efforts in describing certain concepts, but never elaborated on the exact meaning of these terms. One could think that collectivity and collaboration are identical (they often are mentioned in the same context) as both have something to do with individuals working together. In fact, I find it important to highlight their differences for I expect collectivity to play as vital a role in Web 3.0 as collaboration did in Web 2.0. Transition As already understood from popular Web 2.0 applications such as Wikipedia, Google Docs, or WordPress, we define collaboration as sharing workload in a group of individuals who engage in a complex task, working towards a common goal in a managed fashion, and are conscious of the process’ details all the way. Different realms Collaboration and collectivity operate in different realms. The synaptic web Hence the synaptic web calls for collectivity.
Creating Your Own Echo Chamber With The E2 Stream | The Digital Letter - Official Blog of Kenneth Yeung + TheLetterTwo.com
February 12, 2011 by Ken Yeung 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. Wouldn’t your community managers prefer to have one central area to respond to critics, supporters and your customers? This past Tuesday, the team from Echo held a press conference in San Francisco at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) where they announced something new to help create better engagement. Don’t leave your business out. One thing to note at first glance is that Echo and their e2 stream server is not meant for the individual consumer. In the beginning of the Internet age, we all put up websites and know people who could pop open Photoshop, create one from scratch and then build it out using HTML/CSS. People can still be social on your website
Basics of Attention Profiling through APML at CleverClogs
“If you want to inform yourself of the basic principles of attention profiling or need to explain the concept to others then please read on. Feel free to add your clarifications, your conclusions and your constructive criticism to this deliberately non-geek conversation.” In recent months quite a few bloggers covered the growing adoption of APML, a proposed standard for attention profiling. What is attention profiling and what are the benefits? As usual, this post concludes with a news radar. I encourage you to participate in this deliberately non-geek conversation about attention profiling, either by posting a comment or by writing a blog post of your own. Attention Profiling I like introducing attention profiles as consolidated, structured descriptions of people’s interests and dislikes. In today’s post I confine myself to describe services that are capable of handling attention profiles based on the proposed APML standard. I strongly suggest you read Emily’s post in full.
Ontology of Folksonomy
Thomas Gruber TomGruber.org and RealTravel.com Published in Int’l Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems, 3(2), 2007. Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic Web. A while ago, the Artificial Intelligence research community got together to find a way to “enable knowledge sharing” (Neches et al., 1991). In the context of the Semantic Web, “ontology” is an enabling technology — a layer of the enabling infrastructure — for information sharing and manipulation. Not so long ago, keen observers of the Internet (Vander Wal, 2004),(Sterling, 2005), (Mieszkowski, 2005) and inventors of social software (Shachter, 2003), (Fake and Butterfield, 2003) began to notice that people who don’t write computer programs were happily “tagging” with keywords the content they created or encountered. Like all vague but evocative terms, both of the words ontology and folksonomy have taken on many senses. Yes, we agree, tags are cool. How to proceed? Let us focus on the ontology layer here.
10 ways journalists can use Storify
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. It has a couple of downfalls, the biggest of which, to me, is the lack of hard timestamps on content from Twitter (though that’s largely Twitter’s fault). In the weeks since the Nieman Lab actually used Storify to explain Storify, many journalists and bloggers have taken the opportunity to experiment with the tool – with incredibly varied results. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Preparing for the Synaptic Web | MyST Blogsite®
Years ago (2003 actually) I wrote an article about atomization and virtualization . I penned it because I sensed the web was moving in the direction of smaller and smaller information objects. In fact, MyST services were designed based on this influence - we wanted to make sure that MyST was capable of storing the smallest of information resources. Why? Because the idea of smaller (and smaller) information objects is necessary if the universe of objects is expected to rise dramatically and you hope to be able to find stuff in a continually expanding pile of stuff. We achieved the goal for small object capture and management; a good example is a Link Property in a blog post. Here are a few signs that the Synaptic Web is emerging: Widgets - lightweight components of functionality that connect numerous information sources and sites. These emerging forces are at work today and will grow in power and availability in the coming months and years.
