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12 Twitter Stream Aggregators To Make You Smarter | Online Marketing Blog

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There are many more reasons for using Twitter post aggregators but let’s get to the tools. Here are 12 of those services with our favorite 5 to start.

Twitt(url)y - If you like the Digg interface and you like Twitter, then this is the tool for you. Rather than users’ votes, Twitturly counts links posted on Twitter to content in order to include and then rank the content. The more votes an item gets, the higher it displays on the list. Only the top 100 items are shown at a time. Twitturly also tracks the number of Tweets with links that a particular Twitter user has posted. This is a nifty feature that can help you see what a particular Twitter user likes and how ofter their Tweets with links get Retweeted by others. Twitturly also gives you the full Tweet History of a URL including how many and who Tweeted it, plus the total estimated reach, regardless of how many URL shortening services were used to point to it. By Joel Strellner

Retweetist - On this site you’ll see a variety of data aggregated all in one place. There’s a list of the freshest, most often Retweeted items, the most Retweeted items in the past 24 hours and the most Retweeted Twitter users. You can also see the Retweet history of an individual Twitter user which shows their daily Retweet frequency and the most recent items they’ve linked to. Here’s mine. By Mike Sheetal

Tweetmeme - Unique features with this service include segmenting the kind of content being linked to: Blogs, Images, Video and Audio. There are mini keyword tag clouds for each Tweet. Other features include: A river of news page with an RSS feed, individual RSS feeds for each category (e.g. images, videos) and historic pages so you can go back to any particular date at 5 minute intervals to see what tweetmeme looked like in the past. By Nick Halstead

TweetLists - This service simply shows the most popular links over the last 24 hours found on the public timeline at Twitter.com. There are tabs for most popular Tweets of the day and week. There are also lists of the top Twitterati and domains being Tweeted. A search feature makes it easy to locate specifics. By Scott Rutherford

Twitter Search - Probably the most popular way to filter Twitter noise is to use the search tool. Trending topics are displayed and an array of search operators/options allow you to be pretty specific about what you’re looking for.

As an example, let’s say I wanted to find: “people in Chicago that asked a question in English about social media in the past 24 hours”. No problem, here you go. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of the search results as well. There are amazing possibilites for connecting with the right people using Twitter search.

Additional Twitter aggregator and filtering services include:

• Twistori - A sort of emotional Tweet aggregator: Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Wish. By Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs

• Twist - This service shows aggregated data about what people are saying in Twitter and includes a chart of topical trends in Twitter (similar to Google Trends) that you can also use to view Tweets during different time periods. Mont You can also do topic comparisons and drill down to see lists of what was hot today or the current week. By Diego Basch

• retweetradar - A tag cloud of Tweeted topics is what stands out with this service, showing current tags, today and yesterday for time intervals. Clicking on the tagged keywords initiates a search on Twitter itself. The “What’s Happening Right Now” section updates in real time. The top Retweeted links and Twitter users are also displayed along with a trend archive. By Minnesota’s own Ben Hedrington

• twopular - This service shows trending topics in various time formats: now, past 2 hours, 8 hours, day, week, month, ever. Each trending topic has an arrow indicator indicating direction of trend plus links to the topic on Google and Yahoo News. There’s also an option to do comparison charts from a preset list of trend topics. By Martin Dudek

• Twitturls - Shows popular articles, pictures and videos linked to via Twitter in the past 2 hours, today and also filters out any Tweets that don’t use Twitter vernacular. By Justin Palmer

• Twitlinks - Aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users in a news story format.

• Retailer Twitter Aggregator - As the name implies, this is a retailer Twitter aggregator showing an ”at a glance” view of how brick and mortar retailers are using Twitter to connect with their customers including sales information advice. By Tom Sullivan

There are quite a few more, but none that do anything dramatically different than the services listed above. However, there may be some I’ve missed. Are there any unique Twitter aggregation tools that should be added? We’d love to hear about them.

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openSocial

Web 2.0 NYC - Tying it All Together: Implementing the Open Web

September 19, 2008 · 2 Comments

Joseph Smarr - Chief Platform Architect, Plaxo (Dude talks fast)

Talk about the most fundamental and important changes on the web: The Web is going social, and social is going open. I’m going to take you though it and hopefully make sense of it.

Social web building blocks, but a lot of confusion as to what they are and what they do.

So: How to dhese pieces fit together, and how will this look once the dust settles?

Social web is BROKEN.

on each site, we still need to

• create an account
• re-enter our profile info
• re-find our friends
• re-establish our relationshiops

There’s gotta be a better way. And, there is. Help is on the way.

Building blocks establish

• who i am (ID)
• who i know (Social)
• what’s going on (Activity)

Who I am

Create a portable, durable online identity

OpenID

• sign up / sign in with existing account
• Link / share profile data between sites
• Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, Google (on some properties)

rel=me (XFN)

• Consolidate your online identity with me-links

social graph API

• See what your users said about themselves

Shows plaxo pulse “Stream” which seems like it’s activity from across multiple web apps, kinda like friend feed. Hmm, I guess I’ll finally have to check out Plaxo.

Who I Know

Build and maintain real relationships

Contact APIs

• Find people from your current address book
• Leverage previously established relationships

OAuth

• Share private data between trusted sites

Friends-list portability

• Continuous discovery across multiple sites

What’s Going On

How do you stay up to date with the people you know.

Becuase the whole web is becoming social, there are social things happening on dozens of sites. There’s no way you can go to all those sites to know who’s doing what all the time.

OpenSocial

• Build social apps that can run anywhere

RSS/Atom

• Syndicate your activity to share with others

Jabber/XMPP

• Real-time update stream between sites

So, where is this all going?

There’s you, and there’s all this social stuff on the web, adn there will be a middle SERVICES LAYER that manage interaction between the two. Those services will be:

• Identity Provider
• Content aggregators
• Social graph provider

A day in the life of teh social web

1. John wants to check out a new site. Can show up and use his identity provider to log in and start playing around.
2. He finds who he nows that are on the site via the social graph provider
3. He creates some content and shares it back…his friend Joe finds it and he also discovers the new site (content aggregator)
4. Virtuous cycle repeats

Portable contacts: the missing piece.

Effort underway to standardize

• contact schema
• discovery / auth
• common operations

Focus on ease and speed of adoption

• Active involvement from large and small players

More info at http://portablecontacts.net

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Understanding Open Stack, the Connective Tissue of the Social Web titleLinksSource

February 12th, 2009 | Category: Social Media

I’ve been conducting interviews for my upcoming report on the Future of Social Networks, and have spent time with many vendors that have started to mention the “Open Stack” (both Google and Plaxo mentioned this to me). As a web decision maker (I call you a web strategist) you need to be aware of emerging technologies and how they impact your strategy.

The Open Stack (much like an application stack) is a set of technologies that allow for the passing, sharing of data across multiple containers and platforms, learn the details from the Plaxo guys. To be specific, the stack consists of OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, XRDS-Simple, and Portable Contacts. It’s a tendons between bones, it’s the sinew between muscles, it’s what I call “connective tissues”.

If you’ve been watching the news, major platforms are adopting these technologies, most recently, the big giant Facebook (who is known for being more closed and proprietary than others) has joined the Open ID Foundation.

Steve Kuhn took notes from a recent Web 2.0 event which explains why OpenStack and what the technologies do. Kris was at the same event and gives more details into how it works. Uncle Marc Canter, who flaked on my meeting with him, (he’ll say it was me who flaked, don’t believe him) thinks broader about the OpenMesh, in between painting his fence with architecture diagrams.

So what’s my report going to say? I’m looking at the impact of these technologies and others looking 3-5 years out and how they impact brands, consumers, and the community. What kind of crazy things can happen? The act of friending could go away, registration pages could die, and corporate product pages may look more like wikis, yup, anything’s possible. I’ve already finished many of my interviews folks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, RWW, Razorfish, Dell, Gigya, Intel, Meebo, Federated Media and others –and have found a few patterns. more to come soon.

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