The Heineken Social Tracker will listen to Twitter and use this data to drive large-scale visual animations projected onto a purpose built set in Dublin city centre on Heineken Cup final weekendLast weekend was Heineken Cup semi-final weekend and the tournament’s title sponsor created a ‘social tracker’ to measure the mood of rugby fans across Twitter.The infographic (below) shows the […]
Bitcoin’s quite the little minx isn’t it? The digital currency has been on a wild ride of late and has managed to engross not just the hard core internet users, but the world in general.From a standing start at $7.20 around 15 months ago, Bitcoin managed to hit $266 at around a week ago, before taking a hit and falling back to […]
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Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and […]
Swipp emerges from stealth to launch ambitious social sentiment platform | PandoDaily
Michael Carney
Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and is inspired […]
Considering the number of social media resources people can find on the internet, one can truly say that sentiment analysis has recently gone big. If you will try to put the search term sentiment analysis on Google Trends, you’ll see a vast growth from September 2006 up to the present. You’ll even see how Google forecasts the trend and still […]
Curated discussion service Branch launches publicly with highlights, activity feeds, Spotify supportThe NRA launches a target-practice shooting app on iOS…for ages 4+AppsInsiderUKSocial trading: DCM Dealer uses Twitter and Facebook sentiment to help traders make investment decisions
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Back in 2011, sentiment analysis for Twitter was just beginning to phase into mainstream business conciousness. So, when London-based DCM Capital announced a hedge fund based on Twitter sentiment it was a bold move that ultimately didn’t gain the exposure the company were looking for, and the project closed after a few short months.The company has continued to refine its […]
Social Media: The Unmined FrontierIBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created every day. To put this into perspective, social media alone generates more information in a short period of time than existed in the entire world just several generations ago. Popular sites like Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, Twitter, and Pinterest create massive quantities of data that—if translated […]
Big Data Be Damned, The Web Still Needs a Human Touch | PandoDaily
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Erin Griffith covers New York startups for PandoDaily. She’s worked as staff writer for Adweek and a private equity blogger for peHUB. Her writing has appeared in Venture Capital Journal, BBC.com, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, FT.com, and BUST. She plays keyboard in a band called Team Genius and Tweets […]
Regpack takes form-building to the next level with smart data analysis featuresApp.net publishes its terms and conditions and encourages users to chime in as it begins taking paymentsFacebookInsiderUKUncategorizedFacebook’s stock price and social sentiment, plotted on a graph. Is there a link?ShareHN0SharesRegpack takes form-building to the next level with smart data analysis featuresApp.net publishes its terms and conditions and encourages users […]
