Sentiment engine Tweetminster search

December 11th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Tweetminster Search is a sentiment engine that measures the pulse of UK politics in real time.

Sentiment searches show you how people feel about the issues of the day – as expressed through the thousands of messages posted to Twitter by politicians, news source, journalists and the public. Because our search works in real time it shows what the people think now and tracks how their opinions have changed over time.

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Tweetminster Search is currently in beta, which means we’re tuning its performance and adding new features, including more granular control of the data, new data sources and more advanced filters, plus we’re building an API to access and manipulate the raw data. Our goal is to help you explore the issues, understand the trends in UK politics and give you the tools to build your own apps with the data.

It’s easy to use. Enter a search term (eg. Iraq Inquiry) or up to three multiple terms (eg. Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems) and click ‘Search’ – the results show you:

* The number of relevant tweets about the subject over time (volume)
* How these tweets break down into positive, negative and neutral opinions (sentiment)
* How many people have seen these opinions (reach)
* The individuals with the most impact on the subject (influencers)
* Plus lots of related information – associated terms and issues, links to relevant URLs and a location breakdown for where the terms have been discussed the most

The results give you an at-a-glance breakdown of how big a topic is, what people think about it, how many people are interested, who is driving the public debate, how it all fits together with the other issues of the day and the sources that back it up.

Alongside terms, you can also analyse Twitter usernames (eg tweetminster – i.e. without the @), or a combination of elements. For example you can analyse the correlation between a topic (e.g. Tax cuts) and user (EricPickles).You can also view and filter the tweets behind the results by party, source, politician, time and relevance to tailor your results to your specific area of interest. Tweetminster Search filters out the noise and chatter to get to the heart of the day’s big story.

Our systems are designed to only analyse relevant content which is what makes Tweetminster Search different. We define relevance by determining the influence and reach of a tweet – so we don’t try to analyse all of Twitter, but only the content that matters. Our analysed content is fed from the people our network analysis has identified as making up the UK politics network – this means politicians, journalists, bloggers, news sources and the people they’re having conversations with. These influencer tweets create the core sample for all the data we serve and as new people become relevant through interacting within this network we can identify them algorithmically meaning our politics network is always up to date.

Tweetminster Search isn’t comparable to traditional polling, but has been built to complement traditional polling techniques by helping people better understand how issues are being discussed, shared and perceived by the people who have the biggest impact on public opinion. If a poll tells you that 40% of the population thinks a party is awesome, our tool explains why they think that, why the other 60% don’t agree, and who they are listening to when forming their opinions.

Source: Tweetminister Search

Glam Live est un engin de recherche différent

December 6th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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acquia_marina_new_logoLe Web change en temps réel. En partenariat avec Collecta, Glam Live vous presente l’information publiée a chaque instant sur les sites de news, blogs populaires et média sociaux incluant Flickr et YouTube.
Vision Glam
The Glam.fr vision is to evolve Web engagement into individual talents and media showrooms, personal productivity, communication and branding management platforms, and transactional ecommerce storefronts.

Introducing travel search engine Moebii

November 10th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in In Beta, Newcomers, Travel, Verticals | No Comments »

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Moebii is a fresh approach to finding relevant travel stories.

The Internet is a big place. Even though a wealth of high quality travel stories & writers exist, finding them through traditional search engines can often be a challenge. Moebii makes finding these travel resources easy by taking a more focused view of the Internet – only tracking content from travel-specific publications.

2009-11-10_1614To make moebii more powerful, each story on the site is tagged with detailed, story-specific keywords before it becomes searchable. Re-introducing the human element helps narrow the pool of travel stories, allowing you to focus on content most relevant to your travel needs.

The main searchbar is located on the homepage and also in the header. If you aren’t sure where you’d like to go, click the “Trip Ideas” link from the homepage (located under the searchbar) to get a sense of the most popular tags and destinations; or you can browse the interactive map.

Once you’ve found your desired destination, browse the results and/or refine your search. The most popular tags for your destination can be found by clicking the  icon – these are common keywords that have already been applied to stories about your destination.

When you are ready to start a new search simply use the searchbar in the header, or click the moebii logo to return to the homepage.

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We are travelers just like you. We know that the right tip or suggestion can often mean the difference between a good, or unforgettable, travel experience. Whether planning for your next trip abroad or exploring your home city, we view moebii as a collaborative effort to make everybody’s experience richer.

Want to know more? Click here to roll up your sleeves.

Stealth report: New search engine set to rival Google!

November 9th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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question markFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
A British technology firm is set to launch a Search Engine which will be the first real rival to Google’s world wide domination. The search engine developed in association with American and Dutch technology firms houses new technology which will change the everyday user experience online. Through speed, search results and useability. The engine from the style to search will be completely bespoke, eliminating unwanted material for the user. The firms behind the search engine have received key backing from some of the most financially iconic figures globally. When released the engine will be the biggest on the market place with over 142 billion indexed pages 21% more of that of Google.

Our engine will surprise the technology world as we know it. Our extensive research and development will change the everyday lives of individuals wanting to find information online at speed and ease, Google have known about our development for some time now, but it’s finally in it’s final Beta testing stages Founder and CEO of Search Engine and British Technology Firm.

January will see the engine open negotiations with Twitter, talks will involve working closely with Twitter technology to provide synergy in high revenue growth; Twitter is yet to make any revenue from it’s large user base. By September 2012 the search engine will outrival Google in market share.

In it’s final Beta Testing the firms allowed 100 members of the public in central London to test the search function, comments included;

The name of the search engine is yet to be released, the firms and individuals backing it are being kept anonymous at this stage.

The official launch date for the search engine will be announced on 28th of November 2009 at 19:00 GMT at a London Mayfair Hotel.

Review the News from Multiple Sources with Newsy

October 31st, 2009 by Guest Author
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2009-10-31_1359Here’s an idea we haven’t seen before. We were a skeptical at first but after a short time we can say we like what Newsy is up to. The current version of the service has been available since April, 2009 when it was relaunched.

The Newsy iPhone app launched a couple of weeks ago.

The idea is as simple and and fresh. We’ve not seen anything similar available for free. Basically, take stories in the news and then bring together multiple video (and sometimes text-based) news reports from a number of sources and place them all on a single location. It’s not only a great way to see how a news story is reported but viewing the same story from different news organizations can potentially turn up facts from one source that the other source does not report on. By the way, the company likes to think to think of themselves as “news analyzer” and not a news aggregator. We think both phrases can work together Whatever you call Newsy there is plenty of value here.

Newsy can be useful in many situations. One potential use is helping to teach critical information skills by reviewing what is and is not reported on in a news story and how it’s reported. For example, how much time does each source give to the story.

But wait, there’s more. In addition to aggregating news reports on the same story, Newsy produces their OWN original video content summarizing the material from each source into a single report. For those who don’t want to view each source video one at a time, here’s a way to learn what each one is reporting in just a minute or two.

You can keyword search Newsy (you’re searching metadata) or browse by one of seven categories:

+ World
+ Economy
+ U.S.
+ Politics
+ Tech/Sci
+ Environment
+ Culture

You can also sort results by:

+ Most Popular
+ Most Recent
+ Most Commented
+ Highest Rated
+ Editor’s Picks

Let’s review how Newsy works:

1] Find a story, search or browse
We searched for “Obama” and got back 10 results

2] Select the story; We chose “Obama Gives Donors Access to White House” from October 29, 2009 with a video summary that runs about three minutes.

3] After clicking the play we were taken to this page

5] Immediately, Newsy’s own video summary begins playing

6] Above the video box (which can be embedded on any web page) notice the direct links to the various news sources used in the summary

7] In this case the sources are:

+ Fox News
+ The Hill (Text-Based)
+ CNN
+ The Washington Times
+ CBS
+ The Washington Post

A good and well-balanced selection of sources. If you click on any of them, a new window opens and the “source” video (or text) begins playing. Text sources link directly to the article. No more going all over the web to find the content.

Quick Hits

+ Newsy does not offer its services for every news story. That’s minor when you sit back and review what we think is real value in what they offer. Hopefully, they’ll be able to cover more in the future.

+ An iPhone version of Newsy is also available. It’s a free app.

Here’s a link to get Newsy iPhone (via the iTunes App Store)

+ If you register for the site you can comment on any story.

+ A text transcript of each Newsy original summary is available. You’ll find it below the summary video box

+ You can share reports using direct links to many social networks or e-mail a link to the selected story

+ An RSS feed of stories is available as well as the Newsy blog

We hope that Newsy continues to offer a wide variety sources and a well-balanced set of sources for each story it covers. One thing we would love to see is a source list (we’re guessing the Newsy uses more sources than listed on this page) and perhaps the expansion of this page about how news stories are selected. Another page about the news source selection process would be useful. Finally, we would be very happy if you could view stories by source. In other words, show me all of the stories that use video from MSNBC, BBC, CBS, etc.

You can learn more about the company this STLToday article. For example, they are based in Columbia, MO and have a staff (as of a few weeks ago) of 19.

Many Thanks to Charles Knight over at AltSearchEngines for letting us know about Newsy.

Yesterday, Charles ran a post about Newsy focusing on the success of their iPhone app.

The original article from ResourceShelf is here: