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The 411 on Buzztracker

Dave , OpenAmplify's community manager will be in Austin for SxSW March 11-17, 2010. We wanted something fun to talk about, so we put together a fun little app called " buzztracker " over the last few days. It's written using ColdFusion, and the code will soon available for your use...

Posted to Amplitude by mikepetit on 12 Mar 2010
Filed under: app, sxsw, twitter

TinyURL Problem

TinyURL is a Web service that takes your long, ugly URL and shortens it to something simple, like “http://tinyurl.com/6xy”.For a long time I was wondering why do we need to have to have more than 1 URL (100's of tiny URL) for an article in the Web. Just because twitter can't support...

Posted to Pretzel Logic by balajik on 23 Nov 2009
Filed under: twitter, amplify, tinyurl, spammers, problems

DescribeTiny Url

A Greasemonkey Script that takes each tweets and looks for the tiny URL if any present.It then amplifies the url and adds the topics of amplify output as title description to each of those links . Instead of knowing what the short URL speaks about by clicking on the link ,you see a short description...

Posted to OpenAmplify Applications Gallery by balajik on 23 Nov 2009
Filed under: twitter, TWEETS, AMPLIFY, TINY URL

What 100K Twitter Followers Gets You - Dave's Take

In a recent blog, Geoff Livingston ( @geoffliving ) and Beth Kanter ( @kanter ) create an experiment to test the relationship status of massive Twitter accounts. Beth was recently added to Twitter's recommended user list which in turn balooned her following by 100,000. The test was done by posting...

Posted to Amp This! by DaveW on 3 Nov 2009
Filed under: twitter, future of the web

The Advertisers Are All A'Twitter...

Well, it happens to every online outlet... if people are coming to it, advertisers are quick on its heels. No shock here, right? Twitter recently expanded its Terms of Service to include verbiage on possible advertising modalities soon to appear on Twitter. The public should have expected this, but how...

Posted to Amp This! by SteveS on 29 Oct 2009
Filed under: twitter, social media, advertising

Re: Corpus Development

Short texts are much harder than longer ones in some ways, since sometimes you don't have enough information to determine things like topic or the correct sense of a word or term. At the same time they can be a lot easier because there is only one point to the text--so, for example, it should be...

Posted to Research Forum by janeS on 26 Jun 2009
Filed under: twitter, short texts

Re: Discourse flow in online discussions?

The most direct way to identify roles in multi-party communication is network analysis: essentially, who talks to whom. Penny Eckert used it to identify the paths of linguistic innovation in a suburban Detroit high school. The analysis identified two groups--jocks and burnouts. Burnouts were more oriented...

Posted to Research Forum by Taylor on 22 Jun 2009
Filed under: twitter, network analysis, leadership style

Assigning Identifiers to Topics

We got a reply on Twitter from @kal_ahmed (which was a reply as well): " @ihenriksen if only #OpenAmplify would assign identifiers to topics..." This is currently a pretty hot topic in the field. Instead of returning “Bill Gates” (there are probably tens or hundreds of people with...

Posted to Research Forum by sderose on 18 Jun 2009
Filed under: topics, twitter, identifiers

GreaseMonkey Script to Amplify tweets on Twitter

This is a GreaseMonkey script that you can install alongside GreaseMonkey and it will color Tweets on Twitter according to how positive, negative, or neutral they are. TO USE THIS YOU MUST ALTER THE CODE AND PUT IN YOUR OWN API KEY BEFORE INSTALLING IT. Finding the place to alter the API KEY should be...

Posted to OpenAmplify Applications Gallery by OpenAmp on 27 May 2009
Filed under: mashup, twitter

Know what ppl say about Kindle DX

Just curious about what people say about "Amazon Kindle DX " ,I just tried the twitter app integrated with OpenAmplify to know the mood. I was overwhelmed by the OpenAmplfy Output . It tells me 16 positive results and 8 negative and the remaining as Neutral. So Just within a fraction of time...

Posted to Developer Forum by balajik on 6 May 2009
Filed under: Polarity, Kindle DX, Twitter, OpenAmplify