Social Computing Group Blog » broadcast http://socialcomp.com/blog Glimpses of Our Hive Mind Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:57:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Geo-Twitter. Twitter is trying to boost … http://socialcomp.com/blog/636 http://socialcomp.com/blog/636#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:17:19 +0000 Tom http://socialcomp.com/blog/636 Geo-Twitter. Twitter is trying to boost usage by offering “local trends”–lists of tweets bearing popular keywords grouped by region. Initially (by the end of this week) it will consist of “six countries (the United States, Canada, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, and the U.K.) and 15 cities (13 U.S. cities plus Sao Paulo and London).” Last fall Twitter also acquired a company called GeoAPI that helps developers make effective use of geographic information (http://www.geoapi.com/). See http://tr.im/M2sB

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/636/feed 0 Twitter Hashtag syntax for Haiti crisis…. http://socialcomp.com/blog/630 http://socialcomp.com/blog/630#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:03:48 +0000 Tom http://socialcomp.com/blog/630 Twitter Hashtag syntax for Haiti crisis. This interesting project by Leysia Palen and colleagues involves constructing (and disseminating) a hashtag syntax “to help direct Twitter communications for more efficient data extraction for those communicating about the Haiti earthquake disaster. Use only requires modifications of Tweet messages to make information pieces that refer to #location, #status, #needs, #damage and several other elements of emergency communications more machine readable. This allows for easier automated collation by any number of groups and good samaritans from any number of sources. HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!!!”.

See http://epic.cs.colorado.edu/helping_haiti_tweak_the_twe.html

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/630/feed 0 The house that tweets. A video about an … http://socialcomp.com/blog/504 http://socialcomp.com/blog/504#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:18:29 +0000 Tom http://socialcomp.com/blog/504 The house that tweets. A video about an interesting little experiment by IBMer Andy Stanford-Clark who has a large array of home sensors — lights on/off, power use, water use, mousetrap set off — broadcasting their status on Twitter. Video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8113914.stm (thanks to Melissa Cefkin for the pointer).
Also see: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/how-to-automate-any-house-with-twitter.php?dcitc=th_rss_science

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/504/feed 0 An interesting analysis of Twitter by Ho… http://socialcomp.com/blog/455 http://socialcomp.com/blog/455#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:29:12 +0000 Tom http://socialcomp.com/blog/455 An interesting analysis of Twitter by Howard Rheingold: http://bit.ly/XMvTs

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