Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings
Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily. Take a query like [taj mahal]. But we all know that [taj mahal] has a much richer meaning. The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. Google’s Knowledge Graph isn’t just rooted in public sources such as Freebase, Wikipedia and the CIA World Factbook. The Knowledge Graph enhances Google Search in three main ways to start: 1. 2. How do we know which facts are most likely to be needed for each item? 3.
Pearltrees Raises $6.7M For Its “Collaborative Interest Graph”
Pearltrees, a company offering a novel interface for sharing and finding content, has raised 5 million euros ($6.7 million US) in new funding. The basic unit of the Pearltrees service is the pearl, which is basically a bookmark. Users can assemble these pearls into trees based around a topic. Meanwhile, Pearltrees is using that data to determine how different topics and bookmarks are related, and allows users to find new pearls (related to whatever topic they’re exploring) through its “related interests” button. Following the lead from Google’s PageRank and Facebook’s EdgeRank, Pearltrees has named its technology TreeRank. In essence, it’s offering its own version of the “interest graph”, a goal that many startups are chasing. Pearltrees launched in December 2009, and the company says it has been growing consistently at 15 percent per month, and that users have now created 15 million pearls which were assembled into 2 million trees. Previous investor Groupe Accueil led the new round.
6 Gorgeous Facebook Visualizations
Like every complex network, Facebook offers unlimited possibilities of visual representation of the various connections between its users. We've chosen six beautiful visualizations that will awaken the (visual) geek within you. You don't have to stop at merely watching. Some of the visualizations on the list come with tools that you can use to create beautiful Facebook visualizations of your own with very little effort. Enjoy! Know of a beautiful Facebook visualization? 1. This project visualizes all the data Facebook receives, on a global scale. 2. This wonderful illustration, created by Lee Byron from the Facebook data team, shows how Facebook has evolved from being a social network for universities to the global social networking powerhouse it is today, with over 200 million users. 3. Friend Wheel is a simple Facebook application that creates a radial graph out of all your Facebook friends. 4. 5. Still images really don't do justice to this one. 6.
Silicon Valley Watcher - at the intersection of technology and media: PRWatch Archives
The first Hubbies awards (winners above) were presented in San Francisco earlier this week recognizing breakthrough digital creative work. It is organized by a new publication The Hub, a sister publication to PR Week. Steve Barrett, (below, right) Editor-in-Chief of PR Week was on hand as part of a day-long conference discussing key trends in digital PR. He also interviewed Brian Solis from Altimeter Group. The Hub is based in San Francisco and edited by Omar Akhtar (below, left) Story continues... When I first introduced the concept of every company is a media company in 2005 there were very few people that understood what this meant. With so few media professionals around to help tell a company’s stories it makes sense for companies to try to tell their own stories and get them out online and into the many communities that matter to them. Story continues... Richard Edelman (right) with Steve Barrett, Editor-in-Chief of PR Week, at a Churchill Club event in 2013. Story continues...
Facebook Graph Search Review, How it Works Social Media Examiner
Facebook recently announced Graph Search. In this article I’ll share what Facebook’s Graph Search is, how it works and how it fits your marketing strategy. What Is Graph Search? Graph Search is Facebook’s latest revision to the search feature that helps users find connections to people and places that have always existed in the graph. In a sense, it’s a clean interface into the breadth of Facebook data that people have entered into Facebook, but contextualized to each user. Watch this video introducing Facebook Graph Search. Think about that for a moment. Kudos to the Facebook engineering team for this major achievement. As you’ll see below, it’s early for Graph Search. But this first version gives us clues about how Facebook may evolve and the strengths on which they’ll try to build. Walkthrough of Facebook Graph Search Let’s start with a search about one of my favorite foods—bacon! In the screenshot below, you can see a search for “bacon” in the old Facebook search format. Who knew? 1. 2. 3.
Pearltrees Review - Web Content Curation Community
This Is The Social Graph Explained
www.steigmancommunications.com/2013/08/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-twitters-interest-graph/
Have you seen the AT&T ad where little kids posit numbers bigger than infinity? (The ad is awesome, by the way.) These days, some social media platforms have their own versions of crazy numbers. A few examples:
