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Olympic Tragedy Hits Realtime Web

2/13/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under How to Use the Realtime Web

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Sometimes it is shocking how real the realtime web can be.

As we’ve said before, the realtime web is completely dynamic, always evolving and changing based on the news, stories, and videos that are being talked about right now.  This evening, as I watched the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony unfold from my living room with country after country of smiling faces march their flags into the stadium, I opened my laptop to brief myself on any other Olympic kickoff news I had missed including trial stats and athlete bios.  Additionally, I had heard bits and pieces of news about athletes wearing “black bands” on their arms and was curious as to why.  With a simple search of “Winter Olympics” I had my answer, and sadly it was not at all what I expected. Read the rest of this entry »

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Digsby Lets You Chat With Friends From One Application

2/11/10 - Posted by Courtney Walsh under OneRiot Partnerships

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Are you the kind of person who has tons of buddy lists, numerous email accounts, and thousands of friends across different social networks? If so, we’ve just found your killer app: Digsby.  Digsby is one of the web’s most popular IM and social networking applications. With over a million users, it’s the ultimate communication control panel with IM + Email + Social Networks in one application.

We’re big fans of Digsby which lets users:

  • Combine all buddy lists from AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and Google Talk to have multiple conversations across IM accounts.
  • Check email from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and POP  in one click, right from the desktop.
  • Search the realtime web via OneRiot to find and share the hottest news and videos, right now.
  • Consume a realtime NewsFeed of what friends are doing - from new photos to status updates.

In addition to these features, today Digsby released an update to start serving RiotWise Trending Ads. This means that Digsby users will now see a fresh stream of content ads based off the day’s trending news topics in their social feed.

If you’re using Windows, snag Digsby here.  (It’s not available for Mac or Linux just yet, but hold tight!)

If you’re a developer who wants to learn more about monetizing your app with RiotWise, we want to hear from you! Email riotwise@oneriot.com.

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Here Comes the Bride: Spotlight on WeddingPulse

2/10/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Riotfeeds Spotlight

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ATTENTION LADIES:

Not trying to set you up for disappointment, or make your boyfriend look like a complete jerk–but Valentine’s day is coming up, and for some of you lucky ladies that means sporting new bling on your left hand.  As the saying goes, “first comes love, then comes marriage….”

Whether you’ve been engaged for years, recently wearing your rock, or just dreaming for that perfect proposal, it’s never too early to get a leg up on wedding planning.  (You’re boyfriend may strongly disagree.)  It can be overwhelming with so many details to think about like flowers, bridesmaid gowns, and venue ideas.  That’s why we’ve created the newest addition to our RiotFeed Family, WeddingPulse, a Twitter account that updates with a bridal bombardment!

Delivering you a constant stream of realtime results in the wedding world from sites like TheKnot and Brides.com, WeddingPulse is a great resource for planning your big day.  With I do’s, don’t, and do it yourselves, you’re sure to snag a couple of great bridal ideas—and occasionally you’ll get a couple gems like this site, one of the funniest websites we’ve seen all week.  Enjoy.

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Editors Note: OneRiot may not be held responsible in any way if your signifcant other does not pop the question this Valentine’s day.

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Valentine’s Day for the Lovers & Haters on the Realtime Web

2/10/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under How to Use the Realtime Web

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Every time February 14th rolls around, without fail, the American population is divided into two types of people: Those who get all cutesy-gaggy-sappy in anticipation for Valentine’s Day, and those who get bitter, annoyed, and suicidal.  While people begin to plan their night by stocking up on roses and chocolates or booze and painkillers, they can also turn to the realtime web for plenty of Valentine’s day ideas for both camps. As we get closer to V-Day, more and more fresh and relevant search results emerge, giving you enough resources to even start planning next year’s romance (or anti-romance) fest.  Here are some of our favorites.

While people begin to plan their night by stocking up on roses and chocolates or booze and painkillers, they can also turn to the realtime web for plenty of Valentine’s day ideas for both camps.

The Haters

  • Anti-Valentine’s Card- Bitter much?  There’s no better way to tell your loser significant other that they’ve disappointed you in every way than an anti-Valentine. (NBC DFW)
  • Cheating Heart- Catch your conniving lover by using a surveillance tool to take screenshots of their Facebook infidelity.  What a social media whore! (VentureBeat)
  • Puppy Love- 1 in 5 would rather spend Valentine’s Day with their dog than their lover.  Maybe you should skip the single self-pity on Feb 14th, and head on over to the pound instead. (Care2)
  • Romance is Wack- 10 Weird and bizarre Valentine’s day news stories.  Will make you proud to be single. (SmashingList)
  • What to Gift your Lover- An easy to follow chart directing your what to buy your significant other for V-day….but whatever you do, you’re f*&%ed.  (StevenHumor)
  • Lose the Jiggle- You’ve got another year to get in shape, feel confident, maybe snag a date?  Spend Valentine’s day at the gym and sweat away your bitterness. (OneRiot’s PulseOnFitness)

The Lovers

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TwitIQ: Encouraging Online Discovery

2/05/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under OneRiot News, OneRiot Partnerships

Are you a Twittering Fool?  If so, hop on over to TwitIQ, a web service for monitoring, updating and sharing your Twitter streams. With one click, connect to your account(s) and go crazy (or as crazy as 140 characters will get you).  With URL shortening options, multiple Twitter account support, channel discovery and more, TwitIQ truly makes for a more intelligent Twitter.  Their clean and organized design allows you to navigate the site with ease, offering windows into current trending topics, daily and weekly trends.

We’re huge fans of discovery and sharing at OneRiot, so we loved finding that same motivation at the heart of TwitIQ. We are very excited to have TwitIQ on board with RiotWise, and encourage you to check them out for yourself.

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Guardian Introduces “Zeitgeist” Powered by OneRiot

2/05/10 - Posted by Courtney Walsh under OneRiot News, OneRiot Partnerships

The beauty of the realtime web is that it’s always evolving, constantly paving the way for exciting new tools and resources to be developed.  The Guardian is one of the latest to harness the power of social signals and realtime web by launching Zeitgeist, an eye-catching visual record of what stories people are currently engaging with across the Guardian.co.uk network at any moment. By leveraging OneRiot’s API, utilizing our realtime data, and benefiting from our realtime ranking algorithm PulseRank, the Guardian is able to deliver a colorful and enticing visual that updates with the buzziest stories from across its network.  Zeitgeist is great tool for content discovery.  It not only filters and ranks the best information, but also offers a user-friendly window into the “zeitgeist” of the publication (not to mention driving plenty of page views).

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You can learn more about the “Zeitgeist” by heading over to their in-depth blog post.  You can also track developments and provide feedback via Twitter. A huge congrats to Meg Pickard , Head of Social Media Development, Dan Catt and the rest of the Guardian social media team who have been working on the project.  And as always, we encourage and invite you to use our API to deliver fresh and exceptional ways to consume media. We’re excited to see what you come up with.

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My Flushy Valentine

2/05/10 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

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The Story: Groundbreaking ideas to make your Valentine’s Day one you’ll never forget.

The Search: Valentine’s Day

There are certain traditions one can count on every February 14th.  For most, Valentine’s Day conjures up images of lonely single people weeping, romantic candlelit dinners at the White Castle and rose petals lining the floor of the jungle room of the local Econo-lodge creating a colorful path to the coin-operated vibrating bed. A Toronto area establishment is attempting to add a new wrinkle to the rites associated with the passage of this amorous occasion.  The owners of Mildred’s Temple Kitchen are hoping happy couples will forsake the romance of a champagne-and-strawberries romp down by the fire in favor of a jolly rogering in the presence of a porcelain god. Simply put, the eatery whose name conjures up a visit to grandma’s house, is encouraging it’s V Day diners to hook up in their bathroom.  All of this is evidenced by their website’s enticing inquiry as to whether couples have thought about “moving beyond the bedroom.” To encourage said illicit affairs even further, the management is furnishing the unisex washrooms with copies of the Kama Sutra. While we imagine the erotic occupation of the john puts a damper for any significant other who was planning on using the restroom to  propose or the janitor on cleanup duty, we applaud the effort to make romance in even the least sanitary of places. It’s even inspired us to come up with a few of our own groundbreaking suggestions for sprucing up this somewhat cliched holiday, whether in public or in the privacy of your own home.

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Why not sweeten up your relationship on Valentine’s Day by convincing the local Fuddruckers franchise to host a swingers night?  Turn your loved one and a few significant others into a sexual sundae on this sensual Sunday.

Crying at IKEA- Instead of openly weeping by your lonesome in your living room, you and other singles can gather at IKEA and cry about being alone in reasonable facsimiles of the rooms you normally do it in.

Saw Movie Marathon- Watching torture porn together might not be as much of a turn on as watching actual porn for you and your loved one, but once the films are over you could play a stimulating game of “would you rather.”  First question: If we were being held captive by a serial killer and given a choice, would you rather cut off your own genitalia or decapitate me? Read the rest of this entry »

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A View of the Shore

2/05/10 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Hot Topics

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The Story: This is what happens when Jersey Shore and The View collide.

The Search: Jersey Shore

The stupidifying of TV is directly correlated with the same phenomenon among viewers. It started out as a grab for ratings, but it’s become a downright race for the lowest common denominator. A perfect example is MTV’s the Real World, which went from a show about regular people to a show exploiting the outbursts of the emotionally distraught. That paradigm degenerated even further when the same channel’s True Life show came upon a loser who hangs out at the Jersey Shore. Merging this concept with the Real World, MTV produced a show featuring caricitures of Italian Americans, who are nothing like regular Italians in case you were wondering. The show’s wild success has left viewers desperate for more in the wake of its first season. Now we get to see them join another panel of popular idiots as the Jersey Shore crew joins the View. Predictions? Yes.

-Barbara Walters will feel the Situation’s abs.
-Whoopi Goldberg will feel Snooki’s abs.
-Pauly D will feel Jwoww’s fake breasts.
-Joy Behar will reveal photos of Elisabeth Hasselbeck hooking up with Jwoww’s boyfriend.
-Jwoww will then hook up with Joy Behar, making Whoopi Goldberg Jealous. Read the rest of this entry »

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Super Bowl XLIV Brought to You by the Realtime Web

2/05/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Hot Topics, How to Use the Realtime Web

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Just a little over two days remain until kickoff of Super Bowl XLIV, (I hope you’re up to speed on your Roman Numerals,) and the fan frenzy continues.  Whether you’re stocking up on Cheetos and bean-dip at home, setting your ringtone ton the NFL theme song, or dropping a cool $1,464 (minimum!) for a ticket to get into the stadium, if you’re a football fan–you’re getting pumped to see the raw gritty action between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts.

The realtime web reflects the trends, opinions, and buzz of what’s hot and fresh at any particular moment–and so of course, there has been an overwhelming output of Super Bowl action online, which will only continue to grow as we draw closer to coin toss.  We used our cutting edge realtime search to scope out some of the coolest websites to get you prepped for the clash of the titans (no, not you Tennessee…) so put on your lucky jersey, order a pizza, and start clicking!

  • Tag the Super Bowl- The NFL Goes Realtime.  Watch this interactive graph update with pics and tweets from fans who add the tag #SB44.  Catch fan-photos from people who coughed up the cash to go, and read all the smack-talking tweets.  Watch yourself contribute by adding the hashtag to your updates.
  • PulseOnSports- Get a comprehensive overview of the Super Bowl sent directly to your Twitter account, with updates from your favorite websites, including ESPN, Fox, Sky and Yahoo Sports. Powered by OneRiot.
  • By the Numbers- Useless, yet fascinating Super Bowl facts.  Did you know that 493 Olympic sized swimming pools could be filled with all the beer drank on this epic game-day?  Who knows, maybe some (boozed) girl will be impressed by your knowledge.

(And if you’re not into the football scene, no problem.  OneRiot search is also a great resource for getting the Half-Time show deets, and re-watching your favorite Super Bowl commercial right after it emerges online—so no sweat, we’ve got you covered.)

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VideoSurf Boosts OneRiot’s Realtime Video Search

2/03/10 - Posted by Courtney Walsh under OneRiot News, OneRiot Partnerships

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Today, OneRiot’s realtime video search results just got a boost from the folks over at VideoSurf- a killer video search engine unlike any you’ve seen before.

By simply downloading their updated Firefox Add-On or Google Chrome Extension, our realtime video results will now be enhanced with VideoSurf’s powerful video search technology including a unique visual summary.   Web surfers will not only be able to find the most socially relevant and current videos (powered by OneRiot’s PulseRank technology), but  will also get distinct insight into the actual video content within the search results page on OneRiot.com.  Also, VideoSurf inserts its most relevant results for the same query on the right rail to give users more bang for their search.

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Most video search engines are blind to video content, relying solely only on headlines, tags and other text – not but not these guys!  VideoSurf’s Computer Vision Field technology allows them to see inside the video to determine what kind of content it holds. Likewise, OneRiot determines the relevancy of online videos by how many times the video link is shared on the social web across sites like Twitter, Digg, MySpace and others.  The combination of these two smart search technologies is a perfect match for video web fanatics to quickly and easily find exactly what they are looking for in the wide world of online videos!

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