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News Browsing by Network Analysis

Published on February 28, 2010 in Real-Time Web and Social Media. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Intuitively, we all know that big news topics relate to other big news topics–when you read about Google, you’re likely also reading about Microsoft. This new tool from Slate makes those connections a bit more concrete.

News Dots automatically scans all of the articles from major publications, and then tags them using Calais, an automated tagging engine created by Thompson Reuters. When two stories share a tag, it records the results:

The hope, of course, is that as the tool develops, “social networks” will develop in clusters, the same way that Facebook friends tend to cluster around college acquaintance.

The interface is currently hideous. But you wonder if something like this isn’t the future of news browsing. Can you imagine what happens when tagging technology gets truly semantic–when stories can be linked not just with keywords, but ideas? [Source: Flowing Data]

The Real-Time Web is Here!

Published on December 7, 2009 in Real-Time Web. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

googleWe knew it was inevitable, and now it’s here: Google has just launched real-time search integrated into search results pages.

Basically it means that Google will display information from news sites, blogs and platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, as soon as it is published. It works on mobile too, at least for now only @ iPhone and Android [Source].

Here’s a video demo from Google on real-time search:

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Beyond Twitter

Published on November 18, 2009 in Real-Time Web and Social Media. 0 Comments Tags: , .

twitter-googleCompanies that create applications for Twitter are diversifying, preparing for a day when they may no longer be needed.

With a $1 billion valuation, plenty of money in the bank, and new deals with Google and Microsoft, Twitter could easily roll out applications to compete with its developers.

Google and Microsoft get the chance to mine the wealth of data—keywords, trends, links—rising and falling across Twitter in real time, a boon for both companies’ advertising networks. And Twitter’s 50 million users, who send messages that are up to 140 characters long, can now better monitor the company they’re keeping and tweet appropriately [Source].

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Google Goes Mobile

Published on November 18, 2009 in High Tech & Media, Real-Time Web and Social Media. 0 Comments Tags: .

googleGoogle’s biggest mobile play was released last Friday, when Motorola releases its Android 2.0-powered Droid. The Droid is aimed straight at Apple’s iPhone. Will Google and its partners succeed where others have failed in dethroning the iPhone?

Google’s Android 2.0 mobile operating system will get a huge boost from Verizon, which says its Droid phone knows more tricks than the iPhone. Do those tricks include minting money like Apple? [Source]

Searching Social Media

Published on October 22, 2009 in Real-Time Web and Social Media. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

seearch-sociallAlready wrote about the real-time web at this post. Now Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s search service are preparing real-time searches of Twitter and Facebook posts. Targeted ads could follow.

Naver (The popular Korean search engine) already incorporated this functionality a long time ago. Naver displays its search results in various categories, such as results found on blogs.

Nonetheless, in a bid to stay relevant in the face of these shifts, Google and Microsoft said on 21 October that they will incorporate information culled from social media sites into search pages. Microsoft said its Bing search engine will let users search for Twitter posts known as tweets and, later, for status updates posted to Facebook pages. The same day, Google said it too will include Twitter updates in search results and that it will begin offering a social search tool that delivers information posted by a searcher’s friends on social sites [Source]. We live in again in exciting times: Real-Time web. =)

The Real-Time Web

Published on August 8, 2009 in High Tech & Media, Real-Time Web and Social Media. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

real_time_webNo one knows how the microblogging site and similar online social networks will make money, but investors see a new Web revolution: (the real-time Web).

When entrepreneurs and investors get excited about what they’re calling the real-time Web, they’re talking about services that combine immediacy and social connections in a way that makes them easy and even addictive (amongst others are twitter and facebook).

Real-time Web startups are providing everything from basic utilities and business applications to search and e-commerce. Here’s a look at this new generation. And at this webpage you can find an introduction to the real-time web.