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Bottlenose Intelligent Social Dashboard Launches Private Beta
Dec 12th
In the words of Nova Spivack, we are approaching The Sharepocalypse. The real-time Web sounded like a great idea, but it has become impossible to manage. The success of social media has proven, ironically, to be its biggest challenge. The services we already use are getting busier, and whole new networks are popping up all the time. Email used to be the only problem. Today, the info streams are legion.
It’s hard enough being a normal user, but some have millions of people tweeting at them! How are they supposed to process all those messages? In the Information Age, you’d think more data would be a good thing, but on the social Web, the opposite is true. But the aforementioned Nova Spivack – along with co-founder Dominiek ter Heide – has just unveiled Bottlenose, and it could be the tool that helps us avert The Sharepocalypse in the nick of time.
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Bottlenose is a new social media dashboard for influencers of all stripes. But it’s not just for posting and reading; it helps you filter and manage your networks with semantics and machine learning. It’s all Web-based, written in HTML 5 and Javascript. It does the data crunching on the browser side (for the non-pro users), so you get native performance behind these major operations reading and parsing your stream.
You log in to your social networks – Twitter and Facebook only at first – and Bottlenose begins crawling your stream. You can also add RSS/Atom feeds to bring in entries from websites. Other social networks are coming soon, and you’ll even be able to pull in email eventually.
You can view your full real-time feed and post to it as normal. Bottlenose knows how to filter the stream by media type, letting you pull out news, videos and pictures. You can add rules, just like Gmail filters or iTunes smart playlists, and save those searches. You can go even further with intelligent “assistants,” which provide suggestions based on your interests and social graph, which Bottlenose learns by itself.
Does “intelligent assistant” sound familiar? That’s no coincidence; Bottlenose co-founder Nova Spivack helped start the incubator that gave birth to Siri. This is an oversimplification, but think of the way Siri uses semantic processing to understand what you’re looking for and apply it to your entire social media stream. Bottlenose assistants can do that for you.
And that’s just the beginning.
Navigate By Sonar
With all these semantically loaded messages pouring in all the time, our social streams can reveal connections much more subtle and interesting than manual filters can provide. On Bottlenose, that’s where the Sonar feature comes in.
Every stream view on Bottlenose can be displayed as a Sonar view, which shows the relationships between the topics (or hashtags, or mentions) at which you’re looking. More relevant topics are displayed larger, and the web of connections can be zoomed into and explored.
Finding What’s Relevant
All these features are various ways of sorting your overloaded stream to pull out only the posts that are interesting. For example, if you get too many Twitter mentions to read every day, you can create a rule to show only mentions from people with more than 5,000 followers, or only with Klout scores above 40, and just read that stream.
Bottlenose can also provide rich information about a single user at a glance. In one screen, you can see a bio, follower stats, Klout score, and a Sonar view of all the various topics and people that person mentions.
Not enough features for you? Plug in a new one. A few plug-ins are available already, such as Bit.ly link shortening, but this platform is going to be totally extensible. The API isn’t open yet, but it will be.
Who Needs Bottlenose?
Bottlenose is freemium! Hooray! That means regular folks can use it for free. The pricing is based on storage, like Dropbox’s model, so the free account will be enough for most people. The consumer version does all its data processing at the edge – meaning, in your browser – so you get pretty good performance without putting too much strain on Bottlenose servers. The free version runs only when you’re logged in.
For the pro folks, a low monthly subscription model is coming in Q3 of 2012. That version will run in the cloud, crunching your streams 24/7, and it will offer as much storage as needed. Further down the road, there will be an enterprise version, offering centralized management, integration with other applications, and detailed analytics and reporting.
This kind of tool will only be more important in enterprise settings in the future. Gartner reports that, by 2014, social networking will replace email in 20% of enterprises as the main way to communicate. That shift is already taking place.
Stop The Streampocalypse
The Streampocalypse is inevitable without more intelligent ways to manage it. Bottlenose has built what it calls a “StreamOS,” an operating system of sorts for the way we manage the downpour of real-time messages. It’s positioned in the middle, more intelligent than basic consumer dashboards like TweetDeck and HootSuite, but more manageable, extensible and affordable than hardcore enterprise software.
So, do you want in? I thought so. Bottlenose is launching in private beta, but if your Klout score is high enough, you can walk right in. If not, we’ve got a few invites to give out. Visit Bottlenose.com and sign up with the code readwriteweb while supplies last.
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This Week in Internet of Things: Intel’s $25M IoT Investment, French Intelligent Cities & More
Jan 27th
Every Thursday evening PT we review Internet of Things developments from the past week. Internet of Things is a term for when everyday objects are connected to the Internet. It’s becoming an increasingly relevant trend for the Web and media, so we want to keep you updated with the latest news. Tune in every Thursday evening for our updates.
This week’s stories include a big IoT investment by chip maker Intel, two French cities building smart cities, RunKeeper’s platform for exercise and health data, and more. Also we continue the countdown to the Internet address apocalypse!
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5 More Days Until the Internet Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses
As we noted last week, it’s getting down to the wire for IPv4 Internet addresses. It’s now down to 5 days, according to the Twitter account @ipv4countdown (data sourced from Hurricane Electric). This time next week, it’ll be Armageddon! Well… not really, the Internet will continue to run and most of us won’t notice any difference. For the technically inclined though, the age of IPv6 will have officially arrived.
The adoption of IPv6 is a key technology in the Internet of Things, because every object connected to the Internet requires at least one IP address. There will be huge demand for Internet addresses and IPv6 is more than capable of handling that.
Intel invests $25 Million in Internet of Things Research
Intel announced this week that it will invest NT$750 million (US$25.8 million) in joint research with Taiwan’s top-ranked university, National Taiwan University. The research project, named Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center, will focus on Internet of Things. Specifically it will look at smart sensing, “green sensing” and context analysis.
Vida Ilderem Burger, vice president and director of Intel’s integrated platforms research, said that
it’s Intel’s first such center and will probably eventually expand to China. This is significant, because as we noted last week China is well ahead of the U.S. on IoT implementation.
The Quantified Self: RunKeeper Emphasizes IoT Platform
Fitness-tracker RunKeeper announced this week that its iPhone app will remain free, after formally being a paid app. Instead of making money from its apps directly, RunKeeper is going to focus on building a platform for exercise and health data. Other companies have already built RunKeeper integration into sensors, ranging from heart rate monitors to sleep monitors and bathroom scales. RunKeeper says it will launch a public API (Application Programming Interface) this year.
Running coaches are already selling training programs on the RunKeeper site and power-users can pay for the RunKeeper Elite level of service. For more explanation and context, read Marshall Kirkpatrick’s analysis of RunKeeper.
French Intelligent Cities
Bruce Sterling, who runs the excellent Spime Watch on his Wired blog, pointed us to a report on "smart city" development in France. The telecoms company France Telecom Orange has been running two smart city pilot projects at Cagne-sur-mer, a city with 40,000 residents located near Nice, and in the Grenoble city center. Reports Louise Joselyn from new Electronics:
"At Cagne, the pilot project has involved the deployment of sensors to monitor, measure and even control certain aspects of the city environment, including water metering in public buildings, street lighting control and the environment.
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So far, the Cagne project has worked well, handling 100 or so sensors. The challenge is to support multiservices simultaneously and to scale to tens of thousands of sensors."
QR Codes Track Ancient Artifacts
As we reported earlier this week, the Center for the Studies of Archaeological and Prehistoric Heritage (CEPAP) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona is now using QR codes to ID and track ancient artifacts. The CEPAP team has been testing this process for two years, affixing QR tags on everything from sword blades to bone remains. CEPAP has managed to reduce artifact coding errors to 1% with this process.
Sao Paulo Cancer Hospital Uses RFID to Respond to Heart Attacks
A report in the RFID Journal this week explained how a Brazilian hospital is making use of RFID in medical emergencies. The system "not only alerts responders in the event of a cardiac arrest, but also tracks response times, thereby providing the clinic with information that it can utilize to improve its response processes."
The RFID implementation has been a success so far and the hospital is planning to extend it to "tracking and managing clinical assets, as well as for environmental monitoring of temperature and humidity in patient care areas, and in hospital refrigerators and freezers used to store tissue samples and medications."
That’s a summary of some Internet of Things highlights from the past week. Feel free to share in the comments other interesting Internet of Things developments that you spotted this week.
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Meltwater Launches Media Intelligent Search Tool To Identify Influencers
May 10th
Meltwater, the global search engine technology solutions, cloud computing and talent management software provider, said it launched Meltwater Press, a web-based search service allowing to identify industry influencers for better media outreach.
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