Comments on: The Twitter Ecosystem’s Spark http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:31:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Tweetmeme DOA? « TechFold http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/#comment-41490 Tweetmeme DOA? « TechFold Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:06:47 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/#comment-41490 [...] I’m fitting this in while visiting family, so this post is late, and likely short on insight - that being said, after pouring hours and days and weeks of hobby-time in building a relevancy algorithm (see: techwatching) I feel the need to comment on Tweetmeme, which launched yesterday to much fanfare. [...] [...] I’m fitting this in while visiting family, so this post is late, and likely short on insight - that being said, after pouring hours and days and weeks of hobby-time in building a relevancy algorithm (see: techwatching) I feel the need to comment on Tweetmeme, which launched yesterday to much fanfare. [...]

]]> By: rod / techfold.com http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/#comment-41382 rod / techfold.com Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:50:57 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/#comment-41382 Cheers, Mark - the lack of interface between services is a frustrating thing - if you read through the comments on that hashtag posts, Chris Messina talks about stitching it all together with ATOM category tags - which sounds like a good first step to me. On the aggregator I work on in my spare time, I've resorted to parsing out post titles into keywords and matching posts into conversations based on the degree of keyword overlap - a clunky workaround to an annoying lack of consistently presented metadata. Anyway, interesting stuff all around! -R Cheers, Mark - the lack of interface between services is a frustrating thing - if you read through the comments on that hashtag posts, Chris Messina talks about stitching it all together with ATOM category tags - which sounds like a good first step to me.

On the aggregator I work on in my spare time, I’ve resorted to parsing out post titles into keywords and matching posts into conversations based on the degree of keyword overlap - a clunky workaround to an annoying lack of consistently presented metadata. Anyway, interesting stuff all around!

-R

]]> By: Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/#comment-41380 Mark Evans Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:21:59 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/#comment-41380 Rod: I like your idea better about being able to follow Flickr, Twitter, blog posts, video, etc. Hashtags and Tweetmeme have potential but the interface for both is far from ideal right now. To start, there needs to be some tagging/customization so you can follow the conversations that interest you. Rod:

I like your idea better about being able to follow Flickr, Twitter, blog posts, video, etc. Hashtags and Tweetmeme have potential but the interface for both is far from ideal right now. To start, there needs to be some tagging/customization so you can follow the conversations that interest you.

]]> By: rod / techfold.com http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/#comment-41378 rod / techfold.com Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:02:11 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/the-twitter-ecosystems-spark/#comment-41378 Mark, care to compare and contrast to Hashtags? http://techfold.com/2007/12/18/another-tag-silo-twitter-hashtags/ Mark, care to compare and contrast to Hashtags?

http://techfold.com/2007/12/18/another-tag-silo-twitter-hashtags/

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