Twitter semantic analysis

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Expert System, an italian technological firm that specializes in semantic web and natural language processing has released a tool that allows you to analyze your tweets and produce nice charts that depict the topics you tweet about. This tool functions thanks to their COGITO software that gets entities out of words. The same tool also powers ambitious project like OKKAM which aims to avoid the birth of different URI referring to the same entities.

This Twitter toy cannot be tested anywhere but by mailing them
Since the trial is private I don’t think this buzz analysis tool comes for free.

Here I share with you a hint on how to build this tool for FREE.
You can achieve pretty much the same result by mashing the following technologies:
Open Calais API + Twitter API + Any charting tool like Fusion Chart

Off-topic curiosity for non-italian friends: Expert System is based in Modena the same province where Ferrari, Maserati and Pagani Zonda are based. Yes, metaphorically speaking you can view it as a rocket science entrepreneurial ecosystem, which is quite uncommon here.

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New! Google Buzz in Gmail

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This morning I’ve been welcomed to the new Gmail gadget, Google Buzz.
Here are some of the first impressions I got.
If I had to explain in in three words I’d say it is a “Twitter on Steroids”

What I like:

  • The integration of the social networking features into mail messages. You can reply to a message you receive in buzz straight from the email that tells you that you’ve just received a message (notification).  This is cowabonga!
  • The ability to edit your status

What I don’t like:

  • The dropdown menu where you select the privacy features is a bad copy of Facebook‘s dropdown with less features
  • I believe (yet to be tested) that your status goes immediately into search. WTF Google, at least warn me! most users don’t do the relationship public = indexed = searchable.
  • They have very long URL as a reference for statuses.
  • I think having Buzz(n) where n>1 below my Inbox is annoying because n++ occurs also for comments on statuses you don’t click “Like”. Google WTF!

What I think they should be doing next:

  • Integrate it with RSS, build an app to cross-post on twitter and Facebook.
  • Phase in Buzz settings in the Gmail settings
  • Provide you with more extensive information and control with regard to privacy
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Management of online belongings after death

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What happens to your online content when you die?

Alison Gianotto discusses here how to deal with management of user’s logins and distribution of post-death greetings.

May sound macabre but it’s worth reading, as some insurers say in their commercials “Things happen”

http://www.snipe.net/2009/12/death-in-the-digital-age/