Comments on: The Ogilvy Blog Aggregator: Pipes across the world http://brendancooper.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/ Digital, social media, and everything in between from someone who likes to live in bubbles, be they dotcom, social media, or whatever's next... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:02:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thomas Pleil http://brendancooper.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2022 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:25:46 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2022 Yes, the translation sounds quite funny :-)

But thank you for this interesting article – it showed me that I have to pay much more attention to pipes and to play with it, too.

]]> By: Markus Pirchner http://brendancooper.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2021 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:01:29 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2021 Babelfish sure is a nice tool for basic translations of short simple texts, but with more complex phrases it fails magnificently. If I hadn’t known the text you used as an example in its german original beforehand, I wouldn’t really have understood what it is all about.

]]> By: The Friendly Ghost http://brendancooper.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2018 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:24:48 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2018 I think it’s an app with great potential but a slightly steeper-than-ideal learning curve. It surprises me that there isn’t anything quite like it that I can see.

The modular approach is a nice compromise between code and pre-set apps but I’ve used this sort of thing before – for creating software synths in fact – and it takes a while to really get to grips with it. The zoho database app was much easier to use, for the Social Media Resource.

I’ll check out the widget on your blog, definitely. Thanks for popping in!

]]> By: giles rhys jones http://brendancooper.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2016 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:57:11 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2016 i am glad you found the post interesting. i find pipes a great tool but a frustrating one – there are so many useful things that it can do that are beyond my amateur tinkerings. i have added a search function and turned it into a widget though – both on the blog. nice blog and i’ll pop by in the future. g

]]> By: The Friendly Ghost http://brendancooper.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2001 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:35:38 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2001 Sounds interesting but I’m not even going to pretend I understand half of what you say.

Is there a post on your blog anywhere that goes into this?

]]> By: David Phillips http://brendancooper.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2000 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:08:42 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/the-ogilvy-blog-aggregator/#comment-2000 Girish and I played with the concepts derived using a latent semantic Analysis engine to find out what the key topics of the day were. Only a tiny weighting (e.g. of the word ‘marketing’) revealed the top blogger of the day, the root for a mass of comments over subsequent days. Some were ‘A’ list but lots were one off posts almost off the wall.

By ‘mashing’ the sentences in the semantic hierarchy, one also got a sentient report. Journalists should shiver!

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