Techrigy SM2 - Social Media Monitoring
Early last year Rochester, NY based Techrigy launched SM2. Dubbed a social media monitoring service, SM2 is representative of a growing class of services that are going beyond Google Alert type filters to a comprehensive monitoring solution that aggregates content from a virtually unlimited number of network sources.
As an aside, Google News Alerts has really [...]
Why the TechCrunch Economy Will Falter
Reading yesterday that AppLoop has apparently shut down impressed upon me a fundamental flaw in the startup economy promoted by a wide swath of pundits and proponents, that starting is more important than sustaining.
Now, we’re hearing rumors that the startup is in trouble, and they appear to hold some truth. For one, the company’s website [...]
Digg’s Recommendation Engine
We’ve been developing filtering technologies based on behaviors and expressed likes/dislikes. It’s hard stuff and one thing is evident, relying on a single mechanism or ideology for recommendations is a strategy fraught with risk.
If you rely on active participants, people training the recommendation engine, you simply won’t get the data inputs necessary to deliver good [...]
What makes a blog post popular?
Our friends over at mSpoke posted part 1 in a series about what makes blog posts popular. This is an in-depth look at the factors that contribute to popularity, here Paul is looking at post writing quality and correlation to popularity.
To start, we’ll need a bunch of feed items and measures of popularity [...]
Social Software Notes
Two thoughts.
We’ve been using Yammer but it’s not clear to me what advantages this has over IM and chatrooms, providing you are already using those behind your firewall (we use Jabber). Having said that, Yammer is a very nice UI and the twitter-like desktop and mobile clients are great. It’s possible to have too much [...]
Google Blog Search, Still a Work in Progress
Here’s why the revamped Google Blog Search left me unimpressed:
Just how in the hell are they filtering and organizing content if the top stories in the Business category are from Huffington Post, Autoblog, and Daily Kos (there were 2 Daily Kos top stories, the other below the fold)? First impressions are everything for a product [...]
When Web Services Turn Off
Michael Totten is one of the more successful independent journalists and in addition to advertising revenue he relies on individual subscriptions in order to cover his travel and equipment costs. I had subscribed to his site last year and it wasn’t until he posted this note today that I realized I had not been seeing [...]
Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?
But I doubt most bloggers are trying to be the next Arrington. Most of them just want to support themselves blogging, right? This post reminds me of the phenomenon a few years back as the open source movement was taking off.[From SarahLacy.com: Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?]
I get asked a lot why [...]
What’s Your Social Quotient?
My very good friend Steve Mann put together an interesting methodology for measuring a company’s social media strategy risk and success factor. Very straightforward and objective, but near the end comes something that is not part of the measure yet experience suggests is a major contributor to success in any organization:
I’ve also considered [...]
The A.P. Blogger Wars of 2008-
UPDATE: Here’s an update from the AP on the AP.
If the AP doesn’t want bloggers quoting their stories, why make RSS feeds available?
And insofar as “telling bloggers what is acceptable”… nuh-uh, the AP doesn’t get to define their own set of copyright laws and as any first year law student will tell them, attempting to [...]
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