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Filters for the social web

Monday, April 25th, 2011

These days, very often citizen reporting of dramatic events is being relied upon from sources such as Twitter, blogs, and cell phone photos and reports. The amount of information can be daunting to those needing to report on events or assemble a big picture.

Storify, based in San Francisco, is one of several Web start-ups — including Storyful, Tumblr and Color — that are developing ways to help journalists and others sift through the explosion of online content and publish the most relevant information.

Filtering the Social Web to Present News Items April 25, 2011, The New York Times

ABI Research report says Wi-Fi location will overshadow all other location technologies

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

From ABI Research comes the prediction that Wi-Fi location will “outstrip
 all other location technologies including GPS, cellular and MEMs, with shipments reaching more than 1 billion by 2015. ”

Senior analyst Patrick Connolly comments: “Location-based services, revenues and advertising are the hot topics of 2010 as companies grapple to gain control of this market. The key is accurate, ubiquitous location-finding across a variety of portable devices such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops. ABI Research has forecast that with the proliferation of Wi-Fi and increasingly lower cost or free location engines, it will become the most widely available location technology over the next five years.”

I’m dreaming of a Twitter Christmas

Monday, November 30th, 2009

According to the New York Times, “America’s first Twitter Christmas got under way in earnest on Friday. Across the land, retailers and their customers used the social networking site to talk to one another about bargains, problems, purchases and shopping strategies.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/technology/28twitter.html?th&emc=th

The article gave an example of a woman who had bought a navigation system that didn’t work. She sent a tweet to Best Buy’s Twitter account and within minutes, they had customer support helping her with the problem. Customers also reported useful information on what parking lots in what malls were full, with advice on where it was best to park to get to certain store locations.

I went to Twitter to check this out. Most of Twitter regarding retail was devoted to trivial comments such as, “I got this great sweater at…”

Retailers’ messages are viewed by Twitter users who “follow” the retailer, basically this means the retailer’s posts show up on their Twitter home page when they log in.

This may be useful for Cyber Monday shoppers.




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