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BlogsTags > twitterFour short links: 31 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 31, 2013 Modeling Users’ Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar’s Number (PLoSone) — In this paper we analyze a dataset of Twitter conversations collected across six months involving 1.7 million individuals and test the theoretical cognitive limit on the number of … These are the top 20 investors to follow on Twitter? Really?By Tim O'ReillyMay 30, 2013 Business Insider really jumped the shark with their recent post entitled These Are The Top 20 Tech Investors You Should Follow On Twitter. It was clearly linkbait for social media rather than real advice for those looking for investment wisdom. … Four short links: 28 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 28, 2013 My Little Geek — children’s primer with a geeky bent. A is for Android, B is for Binary, C is for Caffeine …. They have a Kickstarter for two sequels: numbers and shapes. Visible CSS Rules — Enter a url … Cultural capital goes commercialBy Julia ErrensMay 2, 2013 It wasn’t one of my proudest moments when, a week before Christmas last year, I was hunched over my smartphone towards the back of the famous Hamley’s Toy Store on London’s Regent Street, composure tethered to an elusive bar of … Numbers never lie…unless you’re talking social mediaBy Rob EagarApril 30, 2013 Back in college, I took a class on statistics and never forgot the first lesson my professor taught us, which was, “Anyone can manipulate numbers to make them mean whatever they want.” I see this point magnified today by the … Four short links: 25 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Alcatraz — package manager for iOS. (via Hacker News) Scarfolk Council — clever satire, the concept being a UK town stuck in 1979. Tupperware urns, “put old people down at birth”. The 1979 look is gorgeous. (via BoingBoing) Stop Designing … Strata Week: Movers and shakers on the data journalism frontBy Jenn WebbApril 19, 2013 Reuters launches Connected China, Pew instructs on downloading its data, and Twitter gets a data editor Yue Qiu and Wenxiong Zhang took a look this week at a data journalism effort by Reuters, the Connected China visualization application. Qiu and … Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweetsBy Alex HowardApril 18, 2013 Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying his skills to telling data-driven … Four short links: 22 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 22, 2013 Indiepocalypse: Harlem Shake Edition (Andy Baio) — After four weeks topping the Billboard Hot 100, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s “Thrift Shop” was replaced this week by Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” the song that inspired the Internet meme. SplinterNet — an Android … Money matters most in book marketingBy Rob EagarFebruary 19, 2013 A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that four out of five Facebook users have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site. In addition, researchers at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute found that … Commerce Weekly: You can now buy stuff with tweetsBy Jenn WebbFebruary 14, 2013 American Express turns Twitter into an ecommerce platform American Express announced an enhancement this week to its Sync with Twitter feature — users can now buy things with a tweet. Tricia Duryee reports at All Things Digital that all users … Commerce Weekly: You can now buy stuff with tweetsBy Jenn WebbFebruary 14, 2013 American Express turns Twitter into an ecommerce platform American Express announced an enhancement this week to its Sync with Twitter feature — users can now buy things with a tweet. Tricia Duryee reports at All Things Digital that all users … Exploring web standards for high data density visualizationsBy Nicolas Garcia BelmonteJanuary 30, 2013 Strata Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks, the Strata Community Site will be providing sneak peeks of upcoming sessions at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara. Nicolas’ sneak peek is the first in this series. Last year was a … Four short links: 11 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 11, 2013 How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off (Anil Dash) — the basic straightforward stuff that gets your users on-side. Anil’s making a career out of being an adult. Clockwork Raven (Twitter) — open source project to send data … Four short links: 8 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 8, 2013 13 Design Trends for 2013 — many of these coalesced what I’ve seen in websites recently, but I was particularly intrigued by the observation that search’s growing importance to apps is being reflected in larger searchboxes. How Twitter Gets In … Why isn’t social media more like real life?By Jim StogdillDecember 19, 2012 I finally got around to looking at my personal network graph on Linkedin Labs the other day. It was a fun exercise and I got at least one interesting insight from it. Take a look at these two well defined … Four short links: 18 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 18, 2012 Credibility Ranking of Tweets During High Impact Events (PDF) — interesting research. Situational awareness information is information that leads to gain in the knowledge or update about details of the event, like the location, people aff ected, causes, etc. We found … Sorry I was laughing during your funeralBy Jim StogdillOctober 31, 2012 Since the advent of Twitter I’ve often found myself laughing at funerals, crying at parties, and generally failing time and again to say the right thing. Twitter is so immediate, so of the moment, but it connects people across the … Four short links: 29 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 29, 2012 Inside BJ Fogg’s Behavior Design Bootcamp — see also Day 2 and Day 3. Recollect — archive your social media existence. Very easy to use and I wish I’d been using it longer. (via Tom Cotes) Duplicating House Keys on … Deconstructing a Twitter spam attackBy Peter LaflinOctober 15, 2012 There has been a lot of discussion recently about the effect fake Twitter accounts have on brands trying to keep track of social media engagement. A recent tweet spam attack offers an instructive example. On the morning of October 1, … Four short links: 20 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 20, 2012 Uncertain Rainbow — Chris McDowall’s artistic Twitter experiment. Just how important are people to your social software? Described in this blog post. 8 Weeks Until BitCoin Debit/Credit Card — with an option to hold the value in BitCoins until it’s … Publishing News: Consequences and questions from the Twitter kerfuffle August 3, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the publishing space this week. 20-20 hindsight On Sunday, Twitter suspended British journalist Guy Adams’ account after he tweeted NBC executive Gary Zenkel’s email address. Much kerfuffle ensued, Adams wrote … On email privacy, Twitter’s ToS and owning your own platform
By Alex HowardJuly 31, 2012 If you missed the news, Guy Adams, a journalist at the Independent newspaper in England, was suspended by Twitter after he tweeted the corporate email address of a NBC executive, Gary Zenkel. Zenkel is in charge of NBC’s Olympics coverage. … Four short links: 30 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 30, 2012 pathod — A pathological HTTP daemon for testing and torturing client software. (via Hacker News) A Walk Through Twitter’s Walled Garden (The Realtime Report) — nice breakdown of Twitter’s business model choice and consequences. Twitter wants you to be able … Four short links: 27 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 27, 2012 Social Media in China (Fast Company) — fascinating interview with Tricia Wang. We often don’t think we have a lot to learn from tech companies outside of the U.S., but Twitter should look to Weibo for inspiration for what can … The Web as Legacy Technology
By Tim O'ReillyJuly 15, 2012 This tweet from @jamesrbuk (James Ball) caught my eye: “Average age of @guardian Facebook audience is 29. Website is 37, print paper 44. Amazing channel effect, really. #newsrw” I’ve been thinking for some time how the web is “legacy” software, … You still need your own websiteBy Mac SlocumJuly 3, 2012 Brett Slatkin's hope for a federated social web hasn't worked out as expected, so he's shifting perspective from infrastructure to user behavior. Here he explains why you shouldn't abandon your website for third-party platforms. You still need your own website 
By Mac SlocumJuly 3, 2012 Brett Slatkin's hope for a federated social web hasn't worked out as expected, so he's shifting perspective from infrastructure to user behavior. Here he explains why you shouldn't abandon your website for third-party platforms. Four short links: 30 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 30, 2012 Wide Open Future of the Art Museum (TED) -- text of an interview with curator at the Walters Art Museum about CC-licensing content: reasons for it, value to society, value to the institution. What I say in a very abbreviated form in my talk is that people go to the Louvre because they’ve seen the Mona Lisa; the reason... Four short links: 26 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 26, 2012 Apollo Software -- amazing collection of source code to the software behind the Apollo mission. And memos, and quick references, and operations plans, and .... Just another reminder that the software itself is generally dwarfed by its operation. flickrapi.js (Github) -- Aaron Straup Cope's Javascript library for Flickr. t (Github) -- command-line power-tool for Twitter. Habits of Mind (PDF)... Commerce Weekly: PayPal's Here service takes on Square March 15, 2012 PayPal introduces its own credit card reader, AmEx asks you to tweet it out, and Asymco visualizes the smartphone market. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) Strata Week: Datasift lets you mine two years of Twitter dataBy Audrey WattersMarch 1, 2012 In this week's data news, Datasift will offer deeper access to old tweets, P2PU and the Open Knowledge Foundation announce a School of Data. Strata Week: Datasift lets you mine two years of Twitter data March 1, 2012 In this week's data news, Datasift will offer deeper access to old tweets, P2PU and the Open Knowledge Foundation announce a School of Data. HIMSS asks: Who is Biz Stone and what is Twitter?By Fred TrotterFebruary 21, 2012 As patients and practitioners gather on Twitter, the service has evolved into a peer-to-peer healthcare marketplace. That's why Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's keynote at HIMSS is so fitting. Strata Week: The data behind Yahoo's front pageBy Audrey WattersFebruary 16, 2012 In this week's data news: Yahoo visualizes its front page traffic and demographics, why Tumblr is tougher to scale than Twitter, and a look at what you need to consider as you build visualizations. Strata Week: The data behind Yahoo's front pageFebruary 16, 2012 In this week's data news: Yahoo visualizes its front page traffic and demographics, why Tumblr is tougher to scale than Twitter, and a look at what you need to consider as you build visualizations. Visualization of the Week: Visualizing SOPA tweetsBy Audrey WattersJanuary 20, 2012 This week's visualization comes from Fred Benenson, who ranked and mapped tweets related to the SOPA protest. Visualization of the Week: Visualizing SOPA tweets January 20, 2012 This week's visualization comes from Fred Benenson, who ranked and mapped tweets related to the SOPA protest. The Transportation Security Administration's QR code flub January 3, 2012 Fred Trotter discovers that a QR code embedded in a TSA poster at the Orlando airport links to justinsomnia.org, which is about as far as you can get from a government website. Strata Week: The looming data science talent shortageBy Audrey WattersDecember 8, 2011 In this week's data news: EMC's new data science study predicts a data scientist shortage, why Carrier IQ is part of a "bizarre big-data triangle," and DataSift will soon offer access to an archive of old tweets. Four short links: 8 December 2011
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 8, 2011 Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter (PLOSone) -- Tweets involving the ‘fake news’ comedian Stephen Colbert are both happier and of a higher information level than those concerning his senior colleague Jon Stewart. By contrast, tweets mentioning Glenn Beck are lower in happiness than both Colbert and Stewart but comparable to... Top Stories: November 28-December 2, 2011
By Mac SlocumDecember 2, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: Author Clay Johnson explained why information consumption, not overload, is what needs to be managed. Also, Alistair Croll looked at the relationship between business intelligence and big data, and Todd Sattersten made a case for the paperless book. How Twitter helps a small bookstore thriveBy Sarah MilsteinNovember 28, 2011 Learn how Omnivore Books, a cookbook store in San Francisco, uses Twitter to solidify relationships with customers and break through the publisher blockade. How Twitter helps a small bookstore thrive 
By Sarah MilsteinNovember 28, 2011 Learn how Omnivore Books, a cookbook store in San Francisco, uses Twitter to solidify relationships with customers and break through the publisher blockade. Strata Week: Why ThinkUp mattersNovember 17, 2011 Data democratization gets an important new tool with the release of ThinkUp 1.0. Also, DataSift offers another way to get the Twitter firehose, and Google offers a little more access to its BigQuery data analytics service. Strata Week: Why ThinkUp mattersBy Audrey WattersNovember 17, 2011 Data democratization gets an important new tool with the release of ThinkUp 1.0. Also, DataSift offers another way to get the Twitter firehose, and Google offers a little more access to its BigQuery data analytics service. Data journalism and "Don Draper moments"By Audrey WattersOctober 18, 2011 The Guardian's Alastair Dant discusses the organization's interactive stories, including its World Cup Twitter replay, along with the steps his team takes when starting a new data project. Data journalism and "Don Draper moments" October 18, 2011 The Guardian's Alastair Dant discusses the organization's interactive stories, including its World Cup Twitter replay, along with the steps his team takes when starting a new data project. Data journalism and "Don Draper moments"By Audrey WattersOctober 18, 2011 The Guardian's Alastair Dant discusses the organization's interactive stories, including its World Cup Twitter replay, along with the steps his team takes when starting a new data project. Strata Week: Crowdsourcing and gaming spur a scientific breakthroughBy Audrey WattersSeptember 22, 2011 In this week's data news: Fold.it gamers help with HIV research, Twitter eyes data analytics, and Google testifies before the Senate. 1 to 50 of 240 Next Stay Connected
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