Social Mention is a pretty good social media aggregator. Think Google, but for social media. When I say ‘pretty good’, I mean it’s not without its faults. It doesn’t do real phrasal searches – that is, a search for “Brendan Cooper” in quotes will give results with just “Brendan” and “Cooper” in them, which is […]
Whither Social Mention?
by Brendan on September 7, 2011 in cloudcomputing, monitoring, reputationmanagement, RSS, search, socialmedia, technology
Humans do it better – but do they scale?
by Brendan on July 23, 2009 in blogging, computing, measurement, microblogging, monitoring, PR, research, socialmedia, socialnews, strategy, technology, trends
Today, two seemingly unrelated but actually very similar discoveries: socialmention is offering sentiment analysis among other metrics; and SpinVox uses people to transcribe messages. Humans as machines First, the second. SpinVox.They offer voice-to-text conversion which is something of a holy grail for computing, and given my past interest in AI, I found the proposition fascinating. […]
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- Kanye West's 'Yeezus' Available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, His SiteKanye West jumped the gun on the June 18 release date for his sixth studio album, Yeezus, making it available to buy at KanyeWest.com a day early Monday night for $11.99. West skipped selling pre-orders of the album on iTunes. UPDATE: For some Spotify users, Yeezus is already available to listen to online. Meanwhile, on iTunes, the album costs $11.99. And ov […]Brian Anthony Hernandez
- Hilarious Video Asks 'What if Dating Was Like Reddit?'Many people are avid users of Reddit, but if the conventions of dating had similar quirks and social cues, they'd likely down-vote it to oblivion For its latest video, web series "If Dating Was Like..." looks at how courtship would work if it functioned like the social-sharing site — and the results are spot-on SEE ALSO: The 10 Most Viral YouT […]Brie Hiramine
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- Superman Is a Super AdvertiserWhen it comes to promotion deals that rake in millions of dollars — 160 million, to be precise — Superman is as super human as ever. The Man of Steel, the subject of the new film that opened on June 14, has over 100 promotion partners, AdAge reports. The Hardee's and Carl's Jr. burger chains have produced an ad for the Super Bacon Cheeseburger that […]Dhiya Kuriakose


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