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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-17

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Just joined the young scandinavian club of San Francisco http://www.ysc.org/ #fb #
Je lis http://www.rue89.com/node/147010 #
There are 7 secular / laic countries in the world: http://www.secularnations.org/index.php?page=Laiccountries #
@lucafracassi France has had terrible religious wars and invented secularism to avoid more blood baths… keeping it has a price I suppose in reply to lucafracassi #
@frech c’etait plutot un cauchemard alors! :) in reply to frech #

Is Twitter predicting or making the future?

Agathe Battestini — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:22:01 +0000

The paper and the recent posts about how Twitter data can be used to predict the first-weekend box office revenues of movies are quite interesting.
Basically, provided sufficient data about a topic and clever ways to process the data, the analysis of Twitter data could potentially indicate if people are going to buy a product, watch a show, vote for someone, go somewhere or think in a given way, etc.

Now I’m wondering if the simple corollary to this is not that Twitter is making the future. After all, Twitter can also be seen as a massive network of influences, and its real-time property makes it much more dynamic than blogs, Facebook, newspapers, or TV. Twitter sphere’s of influence goes also beyond Twitter.com as Twitter feeds are embedded in many other websites and applications.

Compared to other types of data, twitter’s data is easily accessible, is better structured for text analysis (short, you don’t need to parse and find the interesting piece of text in a page long text), as well as for other data or time-based analysis (all tweets are real time, all stamped with the same time/clock system which is a big deal, they cannot be edited, they can all be tracked to their original authors and those who retweeted), and finally there is a lot of it.

Wouldn’t there be a causality link here too? Twitter chatter would not just reflect what people are thinking or doing, it also influences them, like any other viral media channel.
Instead of just investing into methods to know what the chatter says about a product or someone, companies and people are going to invest to increase the amount of chatter related to that product or someone. Like they did with forums, and blogs.

Twitter is ultimately an excellent platform to experiment with prediction and real-time making of the future. Build a system that adds to the Twitter chatter in the direction you want (to promote something for instance) and watch real-time if it is going to influence and affect the outcome.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-10

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Will be coming home with a lot of Stevia… Hope the dogs at the customs know the difference #fb #
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #technology #research #sports #travel #france #
yes, finally got the python wrappers (in sip) to work (mostly) for this Qt C++ map widget code. Will it compile for ARM? #
guys working on a map API: “there is no need for pin info bubbles” #
@timsohn yep… talk to carl about it :) in reply to timsohn #
@masimuddy ha, you deserve it! in reply to masimuddy #
Petit et bon moment de la semaine http://ericzemmour.blogspot.com/ #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-27

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

@dabhaid ha this happens to everybody. I’m sure today ran smoothly! Good luck! in reply to dabhaid #
Opera Mini Countup http://is.gd/aU8g6 #
My6Sense Releases API: ‘Digital Intuition’ for the Real-Time Web http://bit.ly/aymOG1 #fb #
General Motors Wants To Augment Your Windshield http://bit.ly/bavgMx #fb #
@dabhaid if they’re the last ones of your master’s, you’ll forget about them quickly! in reply to dabhaid #
Paper on SMS analysis got in #MobileHCI but i won’t be at the conference in Portugal anyway… #fb #
I think I’m finally ready for rainy bike rides, got bicycle shoe covers and jacket. No more soaked feet! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-06

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

RT @gravures Vieilles Chansons http://is.gd/9yocy #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-27

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

ohoh, i’m wearing my Suomi T-shirt (suomi means Finland, in Finnish) when Finland has lost in hockey against Sweden… #fb #
baaah… I’m going to try to use TimeML to markup some SMS data… 70 pages to explain how to annotate :( http://bit.ly/ba8DUX #fb #
RT @gravures Les vieux remèdes – Quand Les Enfants Font Leurs Dents http://ow.ly/1paAGS #
Team colleague Hiroshi is presenting Nokia Story Play at CES http://bit.ly/cnCXTM #fb #
ReasWriteWeb on aggregation services http://bit.ly/asBzit #fb #
This callisto tool to annotate with timeML is getting on my nerves… I’m going to end up adding support for timeml in my web based tool #fb #
Why did i forget my biking rain gear? 3 minutes outside i’m soaked! #
yes exactly what I need to convert python code to javascript: PyCow http://bit.ly/dkirNl #fb #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-20

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

the 10 most harmful artist of the decade (en francais – les 10 artistes les plus nocifs de la décennie) http://bit.ly/9mpovn #
This is a french food moment: tartines of bread, mousse de canard (eventually cornichons) and brie for lunch #fb #
Firebug does not show the Not Found files when they are accessed from CSS stylesheets :( #
http://www.ktvu.com/news/22589862/detail.html about the plane that crashed this morning… #fb #
help build voice recognition models for Sphinx http://voxforge.org/home/read #
? Vaporous (Elsiane – Album Version) (Elsiane – Album Version) – Elsiane http://lala.com/z2qK #fb #
RT @gravures Les vieux remèdes – Pour avoir un enfant http://is.gd/8IoGC #
? Mend (To Fix, To Repair) – Elsiane http://lala.com/zgQX #fb #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-13

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Tracking your mood, your health, your exercise, your time… Find tons of applications and website in this list: http://bit.ly/9lUSwm #
Ohoh the ‘paste’ function is broken in Google wave today… #
Ouch, we can expect lots of horror stories by the first users of BUZZ… Check your settings, NOW! http://bit.ly/9hIE7c #
Buzz issue. If i don’t want to appear in anyone’s buzz,i have to unfollow them but then they’re gone from my Google Reader’s list!! AWEFUL!! #
Some truth there (google buzz) http://bit.ly/9oR4Kr #
Productivity tips: DROPBOX to synch ORG MODE files (todo lists), and focus booster (work in chunks of 25 minutes) #
@arabella maybe molecular cuisine is just not the food of the future… I’ve never been a fan, but I’m sorry for all those who do. in reply to arabella #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-06

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Good 2 days of snowboarding in South Lake Tahoe, at Kirkwood and Sierra. #fb #
Posted ‘Visual Summaries of Popular Landmarks from Community Photo Collections’ to blip.tv: http://blip.tv/file/3161817 #
Interesting documentary about technology, its impact on education and the issues of multitasking Watch it here http://bit.ly/ax3fv4 #fb #
For all those who think they are good at multitasking (see the video in the other tweet) find a new focus http://www.focusboosterapp.com/ #
@vsetlur oh SN = Social Network :) in reply to vsetlur #
My components + arduino order has shipped! #fb #
the old ipod shuffle 1 or 2GB is more expensive than the latest model 4GB… Apple, can’t you make more of the old one? please? #fb #
@augustjoki ho is it a 2gb? what color? would you sell it to me for a reasonable price? :-D in reply to augustjoki #
Talk by the Berkeley ParLab about the parallel Web browser http://parlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/research/80 at Nokia NRC #nrctalk #
Browser – popular app platform – is productive but inefficient on the laptop. #nrctalk #
@dw I’m awake! :) in reply to dw #
Watching some documentaries about cavers. Cavers are crazy! #
TED in French!!?? Here: http://www.tedxparis.com #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-30

Agathe Battestini — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Darn, the madness slides for SensorComix were cut – See the demo at #TEI10 and send cool comic SMS and use gestures to add emotions #
I really like the “Revealing the Invisible” paper… but why do the sensors and actuators ‘wheels’ look so analytical… #teiconf #
That will please some of my friends… Future Interaction Design = Industrial Design #teiconf #
Studio I’ll attend this afteroon at #teiconf: Empowering Programmability For Tangibles #
The Studio gave me a really good intro to scratch/arduino and the lilypad. Thanks a lot guys! #teiconf #
The food at #teiconf is definitely one of the best I’ve had at a conference!! Thumbs up to the organizers! #
Writing a post in French about #teiconf… I’m afraid I can’t write in French so well anymore. So sad… ;-) #fb #
Blog post sur TEI http://battestini.net/blog/?p=240 #
I remember people playing with lighted ice cubes during parties… http://www.glowsource.com/litecubes.html #teiconf #
Love the electronic popables. You guys should write a DIY book on making them! #teiconf #
On the plane back from boston. Can’t wait to land. #fb #
Made good progress on my new Web-based annotation system for text/statistical analysis: Click on 23, select tag -> 23 #fb #
@CathyE Bon voyage! in reply to CathyE #
Wow, I had not been on my http://www.blip.tv account for a while. They’ve been busy adding tons of features. I’m impressed! #fb #
How unique and trackable is your web browser? http://panopticlick.eff.org My fingerprint appeared to be unique among the 222,403 tested #
I need to stop by http://www.sanfranciscobrewcraft.com to buy my mother of vinegar #fb #