twistori - ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/feeds/tag/twistori en Copyright 2009 Richard MacManus readwriteweb@gmail.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:00:55 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Twistori: A Twitter Zeitgeist Social Experiment Twistori, according to the site, is the "first step in an ongoing social experiment." The brainchild of Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, Twistori pulls tweets from Twitter (via Summize) containing specific keywords: i love, i hate, i think, i believe, i feel, and i wish. In then publishes the tweets it finds anonymously in a non-stop, auto-updating river of news. The result is a continuous stream of feelings from the Twitter community.

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]]> It's not clear from the site what the second step in the experiment is, but Hoy and Fuchs say that the project was inspired by We Feel Fine, which aggregates feelings from a large number of blogs and social sites. We Feel Fine created a number of explorable data visualizations based on the feelings it gathered, and used it to draw some interesting broad conclusions.

That could certainly be a next step for Twistori, which right now presents a stream of consciousness view of the Twitter emotional landscape. Because the project comes from Hoy and Fuchs, it draws heavily on Prototype and is stunningly designed.

Be cautioned: watching the feelings of anonymous Twitter users scroll by can be strangely addictive.

]]>Discuss]]> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twistori_twitter_experiment.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twistori_twitter_experiment.php Twitter Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:05:00 -0800 Josh Catone Microsoft about to make a move in RSS-land I have a feeling this is going to be hugely significant. Dave Winer wrote today:

"On Friday you'll see how deeply integrated RSS is in the architecture of the browser. But that's just the tip of what may turn out to be a very big iceberg. The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only peripherally -- that there were applications of RSS that aren't about news. Like Audible's NY Times Best Seller list, or an iTunes music playlist, or lists of Sharepoint documents, or browser bookmarks. Lists are all over the place, and people are starting to move them around via RSS, and they are not the usual kind of data that has been carried by RSS in the past."

This is big on a number of levels:

1) Is Microsoft going to integrate RSS into the IE7 browser?

2) Not only that, but will there be a "wide and deep integration of RSS into their products" as Charlie Wood put it?

3) So Microsoft is doing something with RSS and microcontent (by which I mean, in this case, non-blog content)...Wow!

4) Dave is in on this? I'm pleased about that!

5), 6), 7)... count the ways this is going to be big news. I can't wait for more details on Friday.

UPDATE, Friday US time: Alex Barnett has excellent coverage of the "RSS meets Longhorn" news as it comes out today. More from me after I've digested it...

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