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Tis’ the Season to Make Fools of Yourself: AKA OneRiot Knows How to Party

12/21/09 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Life at OneRiot

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The standard  rule seems to be, “what happens at the company holiday party, stays at the company party.”   Fortunately, (or unfortunately for some featured OneRiot employees,) we live in a digital world.  You simply can’t go to a company shin-dig and expect the night’s events to go undocumented.  While we probably should have left the pictures in the vault, we’re in the season of giving, so we’re giving you something to laugh at.  This year’s OneRiot holiday party involved splitting up into groups, creating team costumes, then running around downtown Boulder on a two hour long scavenger hunt.  Was there singing?  Yes.   Was there intense competition?  Yes. Did we make fools of ourselves?  Oh yes.

The night eventually wrapped up with plenty of good food, dancing, and fun conversations in a local joint—-but our race around those Colorado streets definitely made for more interesting pictures.  Enjoy.

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OneRiot in New York Times Year In Ideas!

12/16/09 - Posted by Courtney Walsh under Life at OneRiot, OneRiot News

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The New York Times Magazine recognizes OneRiot and realtime search in the 2009 Year in Ideas! Needless to say, this year has been filled with exciting developments for both our company and the realtime search space so it’s a huge honor to see a publication like The New York Times include us in their highly anticipated, extremely popular, annual round-up of brilliant ideas … Check it out here!

Happy Birthday to Us (It’s Fun to be 1!)

11/12/09 - Posted by Courtney Walsh under Life at OneRiot, OneRiot News

picture-3218 Today OneRiot officially turned one year old (or shall we say young?).

On Nov. 12, 2008, our realtime search engine burst onto the internets, and a year later we have a lot to celebrate. From getting bundled into IE8, to predicting American Idol winners, to distributing our search results to lots of partners, to launching the first ad network for the realtime web, to partnering with Taptu to release the first realtime search engine for mobile, it’s been quite a ride!

Check out our birthday cake after the jump! (more…)

How To: Create a Killer “Soccer News” Dashboard with OneRiot

11/06/09 - Posted by Tobias Peggs under Life at OneRiot, OneRiot News

picture-1138 I was talking to a fellow Brit last night about a new soccer-related start up he’s building. Then I got to thinking… I’d love someone to build a “soccer news” dashboard from the realtime data that OneRiot delivers.

We’ve blogged before about the way OneRiot indexes and ranks. You can read more about it in our (mercifully short) white paper. Broadly speaking, our results reflect the current “pulse” on the web for any subject. We find “the good stuff” that people are buzzing about right now.

Specifically on that “soccer dashboard” idea, here are a few neat tricks you can employ to get the most out of our index and ranking algorithm.

You can do a “multiple domain search” on OneRiot, and add a key word. So, for example, here is a search to find the buzz on Manchester United from the British press.

We can then feed that information to you via RSS, like we’ve done here.

This means you can syndicate and/or present that information how you see fit.

OneRIot also has an API, so you could do server side integration and work with the XML or JSON that we return. This contains a rich set of “social metadata” (such as the ability to see which user shared a particular link on what service on the social web). Do an API call for every team, if you want (but maybe leave out Hull, because they will be relegated before you finish your project ;-)

Finally, you could take a stream of our results for a particular team and feed them into a Twitter account. Twitter followers would then see a stream of links to the buzziest content on the web for their favorite team. An easy way to do this is via Twitterfeed (we use this for our RiotFeeds). Here’s one I just made last week that tracks the buzziest stories from the British Press on Chelsea FC - @ChelseaFCBuzz - it’s killer content!

As a football-crazy Brit abroad, I’d love someone to build this. If you do, let me know - you’ll be my homepage in a heartbeat.

Our Am Appy’s Gone Fem (’cause the Men’s Are GONE)

9/11/09 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Life at OneRiot, OneRiot News

picture-1429OneRiot tee-shirts are smokin’ hot - and they’ve been going fast, real fast. Realtime enthusiasts, predominately male, have been snatching them up, not only because they make you look like a total babe, but because geek is chic–and nothing is nerdier than a search engine.

While we’re aware that the techie/computer/web space is a little XY-dominated, there’s no reason why the ladies should be missing out on this bot couture. For this specific reason, we made sure to order plenty of American Apparel women’s T’s, just so they could show off their girlish figures and rock OneRiot at the same time. Long story short - while we’re pretty much out of dude sizes, we’ve got plenty of lovely ladies shirts, and we’re giving them away to you for free.

Interested parties should send an email to Jhodges@oneriot.com, using “OneRiot Shirt” in the subject header. We’ll get one out to you ASAP, and - if we really like you - we may even throw in a sticker or two.

OneRiot API // Data Visualization Challenge

9/09/09 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under Featured, Industry, Life at OneRiot

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As of Thursday morning, OneRiot will be playing host to a new challenge - one that will answer a question we’ve been itching to address: What does the realtime web look like?

The rules to the challenge are simple: Use OneRiot’s API to create a data visualization of the realtime web, using the stream(s) of info provided within the API to create something awesome, intelligent and intriguing. Winner takes home $1,500, at least 15 minutes of fame, and all the rights to their stellar vizzy (more on that below).

A partial rundown of the challenge details:

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The realtime web is rich with signals, and alive with the seeking, sharing and viral spreading of information. OneRiot API partners use these signals to deliver realtime content to the people looking for it - but what does it look like before it reaches them?

In other words - how can we visualize the realtime web?

OneRiot is offering $1,500 to the organization or individual who can deliver the most compelling data visualization of the realtime web. Using OneRiot’s API, participants should seek to creatively and captivatingly communicate the information offered within, allowing viewers to visually experience the (currently) invisible travels of realtime data.

For ideas on how to get started, check out our white paper, our search engine, our current API partner implementations, and our API wiki. All of these places will offer you a good grasp of the data in the OneRiot API, which in turn will help you understand the realtime web, which in turn will help you knock people’s socks off.

Also, if you’re seeking some examples of cool data visualizations, be sure to check out Digg Labs, Joshua Davis, this, this, anything Stamen ever touches (like Digg Labs), or this.

Contest starts now, contest ends in the future (solid deadline coming soon). So get on with it - and if we can help with anything along the way, feel free to shout.

Click here for the official contest page.

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Please note that all intellectual property resulting from this challenge will remain with the participants (in less legal terms, that means whatever you create is yours, not ours. Hopefully, you’ll let us brag about it, but that’s entirely up to you.

OneRiot Announces $7 Million in Funding from Existing Investors

8/27/09 - Posted by Courtney Walsh under Life at OneRiot, OneRiot News

Following is the official press release announcing OneRiot’s Series C funding led by Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital, our existing venture capital firms. Yes, we’re really happy about this.

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OneRiot Announces $7 Million Funding
Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Appian Ventures and Spark Capital invest in OneRiot Realtime Web Search

oneriottwitter Boulder, Colo./ San Francisco (August 27, 2009) – OneRiot, the realtime search engine, today announced that it has secured $7 million in Series C funding led by Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital, the company’s existing venture capital firms.

OneRiot delivers realtime web search results to millions of users, both at OneRiot.com and to 3rd parties who utilize OneRiot’s Search API. The company will use proceeds of this funding to further enhance its core search product and to support its fast-growing partner network.

“This commitment from our existing investors is a big vote of confidence in the realtime search market, OneRiot’s product offering, and our team’s ability to execute,” said Kimbal Musk, OneRiot’s CEO.

OneRiot’s partners include Yahoo and Microsoft, who recently released a version of Internet Explorer bundled with OneRiot realtime search.

OneRiot launched in November 2008. It helps users find the news, stories and videos that are most relevant to people right now. Search results are ordered using OneRiot’s PulseRank algorithm – a PageRank for the realtime web. PulseRank reflects the current social buzz associated with any content on the web. OneRiot indexes web pages that are shared in realtime by users on social services such as Twitter and Digg. In addition OneRiot manages its own panel of 3 million users who have opted in to share realtime information with the service.

“Increasingly, the web’s most relevant content is what our friends and other people are talking about, sharing and looking at right now,” said Musk. “Using OneRiot people can find that content in realtime.”
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About OneRiot
OneRiot (www.oneriot.com) is a realtime search engine. Users search OneRiot to find the news, stories and videos that people are buzzing about right now for any topic. Uniquely, OneRiot orders its search results based on PulseRank, reflecting the realtime social buzz around each result. OneRiot launched in November 2008 and is a privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Colo. with offices in San Francisco. For more information, follow OneRiot at http://twitter.com/OneRiot or read our blog at http://blog.oneriot.com.

Cypher13 is CMYOK!

8/25/09 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under Life at OneRiot

Our friends at Cypher13 have been doing some really exciting stuff. A huge mural, a very wise, very long-titled responsibility in design manifesto, some magical Twittery thing called RiotFeeds - we couldn’t be prouder of the guys that brought hot pink (ahem - magenta) to OneRiot. Take a look!

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Meet the OneRiot Team // Contributing Editors

8/17/09 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under Life at OneRiot, OneRiot Community

Third in our series of “Meet the Team” posts is OneRiot’s crew of contributing editors, a well-worded set of current events commentators responsible for keeping our content fresh, snappy and primed for consumption by actual, live readers. Yeah, it’s a tall order. But God knows they try.

Abdullah Saeed

picture-733Abdullah is a slim young fellow with a knack for words. He spent the majority of his childhood speaking English where Thai was the common tongue. Nevertheless, he maintained his love for language throughout and eventually found himself on the east coast of the US, where he not only pursued his career as a writer, but developed his musical skills. Writing by day and immersing himself in sampling production and vinyl manipulation by night, he has taken to the nomad life and can no longer end his bios with his favorite personal description: Abdullah resides in Philadelphia and is an avid collector of music.

Chris Reinhard

picture-833 Chris Reinhard spent his early years wandering the post-apocalyptic American plains with his father. He attributes his success as a blogger to the trials of his youth: surviving on what food they could hunt with a single pistol, sleeping without shelter and avoiding savage native tribes whose only intention was to collect the scalps—and souls—of anyone they encountered.

Evan Kessler

picture-634 Evan Kessler was born in the late 1970’s, an illiterate mute who had yet to fully harness the power of his own legs. However, after months of perseverance not only did Mr. Kessler master the power of walking, he soon gained full command of the English language in both written and spoken form. Never forgetting to put i’s before e’s except after c’s (or when spelling with -eigh like neighbor and weigh) has paid handsome dividends for this writer/blogger, who regularly takes the interweb by storm with his impossibly dry wit and a journalistic integrity. Not only has he thought about winning the Pulitzer prize, but he will one day think about winning the Peabody and perhaps an Oscar for best sound design. That’s just the way he rolls.

Meet the OneRiot Team // Web

7/22/09 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under Life at OneRiot

Second in our series of “Meet the Team” posts is OneRiot’s Web team, a tight crew of code ninja bug slayers that keep our site looking fresh. And working. Bless them.

Nick Busey

picture-429At the delicate age of 23, Nick Busey is not exactly… delicate. Coding since the 4th grade, this adrenaline junkie rides little kids’ bikes, dirt bikes, snowboards, skateboards, snowskates - pretty much anything with wheels except roller skates, cause that would be lame. When Nick isn’t feeling sweet mountain air breeze through his dreadlocks at the speed of light, he’s probably snapping pics, camping, caving, hiking, or getting his political activist on. Nick runs a few websites of his own, including Pedal BMX, and VJs for his brother’s band, Fizakat. He also wanted me to tell you that he can remember pretty much every quote from every movie he’s ever seen, so if you’re similarly gifted… duel.

Soo-Yee Wong

sooyeeSoo-Yee is the only lady engineer at OneRiot, which is probably why Nick and Chris plant flowers and light incense by her desk every morning. She’s spent over 11 years working in and around software development, hanging out with small startups, mid-size businesses and Fortune 100 companies. When Soo Yee isn’t head-down coding, she’s out and about, exploring new places and trying local goodies like chocolate and coffee and wine and tea and pies and cupcakes and cookies and …

Chris Lintz

picture-1122Chris heads up the web team here at OneRiot, something he is well qualified for thanks to his experience in the adult entertainment industry. Kidding. Ok, not kidding, but he only wrote code for them. Promise. Of course, he’s done some other boss-worthy stuff too, like helping to build Vegas.com, the #1 city destination website in the world. As you know, Vegas has nothing to do with adult entertainment and everything to do with live music, which might explain why Chris is also a nine-year DJ, dropping beats everywhere from house parties to the hippest lounges to the most happening party of them all - the OneRiot holiday party.

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