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Twitter and mozRank Help Us Measure What’s Important
November 6th, 2009. Posted by Tim OwenBrandwatch is a data company: our crawlers are dedicated to finding as many pages out there as they can. For our customers, higher volumes of data are generally better – they have more to work with, and can drill down using filters, keyword searches or browsing through topics. But given thousands of pages per day or per week, how does a human decide which are the most important ones to look at? Which ones need attention first? Which blogs or forums have the most impact, or influence? »
Google Wave Goes Into Testing
October 1st, 2009. Posted by Giles Palmer
An erstwhile colleague (update your blog Miles!) who now works at Google sent me a Wave invite, so i dutifully logged in and had a play around. Here’s what i found »
Backend Versus Frontend
October 1st, 2008. Posted by Giles Palmer
We are a data company. That’s to say, what we sell is data which is used for reputation management and social media analysis. But it’s the technology that mines and creates the data that we pour most of our blood, sweat and tears into. »
Google Chrome
September 18th, 2008. Posted by Giles Palmer
I have mixed feelings about Google. They have made billions of people’s lives easier with their search engine and they truly are an innovative company which is just so impressive for such a big organisation. »
It’s All Subjective Really
September 8th, 2008. Posted by Fabrice RetkowskyOne piece of work we did for the latest release of Brandwatch was to add a ‘normalise’ option to our graphs. It was at times difficult to know, by looking at a graph, which variations in a brand’s number of mentions (or in its sentiment) where really meaningful. »
Google Search Is Broken
July 25th, 2008. Posted by Fabrice RetkowskyJust read a very interesting article on the future of search. The bottom line for me was pretty clear: Google Search is broken. Several of the core principles behind it are now obviously wrong. »
Agile vs Well Planned
July 11th, 2008. Posted by Giles PalmerMuch has been written about methods of developing software – books and books and blogs and blogs. I love the writing and thinking of Steve McConnell, although some of his observations can be a bit gloomy (top 2 mistakes almost always or often stated are 1 Overly optimistic schedules 77% and, 2 Unrealistic expectations 73%). »
Creating A Graph To Put On A Website
July 10th, 2008. Posted by Giles Palmer
I have some data. Not much. Just two rows and a few colums and I want to make a beautiful graph, turn it into a web-friendly image and put it on this blog.
How hard can that be? It turns out, way harder than it should be. One word aarrrgghh. »
How Are Workspace And Query Related?
April 22nd, 2010. Posted by Bryan Tookey(Answer: it is a bit like the relationship between a classroom and some students.) »