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Semantic Results as Found Art

I went through all my old Zemashup alert posts (see Zemashup tag to) I had been doing and cleaned out the crappy code that's left over from Google email alerts by copying everything over into Windows Live Writer and then copying it back.

Leaving Zemanta on the whole time it read each post and brought back recommendations. Being the dork that I am I then went through those results and kind of hacked them into what you see below.I actually had to go in tweak the HTML that Zemanta uses in the post.

I had a college poetry professor who called this Found Art. Most people would probably (rightfully so) call it ‘noise’.

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• 10 Ways to Find People on Twitter (mashable.com)
• FriendFeed introduces real-time search (digital.venturebeat.com)

   

• 19 Twitter Desktop Apps Compared (mashable.com)
• Real-time search: more contenders flood the field (digital.venturebeat.com)

  

• The Conversational Marketing Summit Interview (avc.com)
• YouTube Video Streams Top 1 Billion/Day (techcrunch.com)

  

• Building 43 for People Like Us (enquiringmimes.com)
• 140Conference - analyzing the datastream with SM2 Techrigy (webmetricsguru.com)

  

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There is more to FriendFeed and its founder than meets the eye.

Gmail Creator Crowdsources His Philanthropic Efforts
... to suggest and vote on them through a Google Moderator app he's set up, and discuss ideas via a group he set up on FriendFeed (where he's a founder). ...

I do find it interesting how Paul has continued to use Gmail even as a part of FriendFeed. I guess if it's something you built you know it better than anyone. 

Real-time search: more contenders flood the field
Addict-o-matic creates a custom search page with results pulled from Twitter, Bing, Google Blog Search, YouTube, FriendFeed, Digg and other sources on any ...

Yes I am hopelessly addicted to the bright shiny object called the real timeWeb and it's offspring, real time search.

The [Non] Value of Friendfeed | Technosailor.com
Over the past year or so, I've fiddled around on Friendfeed. Sometimes actively, sometimes passively. The notion of aggregating all social content into a single.

It's odd but I totally get when people don't get FriendFeed. It seems kinda simple it first but it's totally not, but it is. Make sense? 

ghost blogging

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Japanese Vegetable Farmers on FriendFeed?

 

Super Rewards' advertising offers come to Twitter games
VentureBeat - Fremont,CA,USA
... lifestreaming services, like FriendFeed, let you go as far as to filter out certain types of services, like people's Twitter accounts. ...
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FriendFeed makes a great filter but how long until someone launches the FriendFeed game?

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friendfeed And Twitter Accelerators For Internet Explorer 8
Ghacks Technology News - Essen,Germany,Germany
The friendfeed and Twitter Accelerators for Internet Explorer 8 allow users to post text and urls to those two popular online services. ...
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This seems intriguing, for IE8 users.

How I use Friendfeed… (video) — Tony Steward:. Blog
By Tony Steward
Home · Contact · About · Church Online · Subscribe! Tony Steward:. Blog. moving forward into the new. How I use Friendfeed… (video). by Tony Steward on June 22, 2009. Tagged as: Friendfeed, Social Media. Leave a Comment. Cancel reply. ...
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Interesting. I always love to see how other people use the tools.

CHART: @iJustine's Plateau Reveals The True Benefits Of Being On ...
Last night I was involved in a fascinating discussion with Robert Scoble and others on Friendfeed about the merits of Twitter's controversial suggested users. Twittercism - http://twittercism.com/

I really have to think that most of this is just whining because they aren’t listed.

Vegetable Farming In Japan.: An annoying test to check ...
By Michael
An annoying test to check friendfeed's posting to twitter function. Apologies! test. Posted by Michael at 6:51 PM. 0 comments: Post a Comment · Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About Me ... Vegetable Farming In Japan. - http://sewcot854.blogspot.com/

OK, this really has very little to do with FriendFeed but I love that Japanese Vegetable farming turned up in my alert :)

Iran's 'Joan of Arc' predicted her violent death by gunfire
By Ani I treat fb diff from Twitter, I even have MySpace. petrbuben Study: Twitter Users More Likely to Buy Music; petrbuben @JimmyConway Ma hai tolto Twitter da Friendfeed; rogeritai Twitter Unofficial Redesign; jdcoffman RT @cheeky_geeky: ...
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Of course following the vegetable farmers you get a more serious story like this. The whole Iran thing is sad because I wonder if anything will change. Of course it will it probably just take longer.

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Facebook: CIA, Semantic Search and City Recruiting Goes too Far.

US Scrambles for Information on Iran
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... crisis in the same ways private citizens do: viewing amateur videos on youtube and combing posts on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. ... See all stories on this topic

I can just see it now, CIA paramilitary counterterrorist operatives hunched over a computer screen in a dark underground super secret military vase searching Facebook seeing who’s in a relationship with who, who poked who. There’s gotta be a scifi short story in there somewhere.

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Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it's incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies. Essentially, machines just don't get it. This is ...
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Along the lines of the CIA there are other info junkies that have to be drooling over all the rich relationship data filling the corners of sites like Facebook.

Montana Town Stops Asking Applicants for Facebook Logins
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While job seekers are often warned that recruiters will be looking at their profiles on Facebook and MySpace, it is far more rare to be asked for a login to ... See all stories on this topic

It’s one thing to do a background check on publicly available information but this? There’s no way in hell I’d ever give my city the login info for any of my accounts. That just seems… illegal(?)

Twitter Iran. What Else to Say

I must admit I'm mostly at a loss for anything meaningful to add. I know little about Iran but nothing has made it more real for me than Twitter. Never would I have imagined social media having this kind of global effect.

Twitter a lifeline to Iranian protesters
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Neda, young girl brutally killed in Iran, becoming symbol of rebellion
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"Neda you broke my heart, too young to die," was one of a flood of messages on Twitter. "RIP Neda, the world cries seeing your last breath," read another. ...
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The Alexa rankings confirm that Twitter's penetration in Iran is ...
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In Iran, one woman - Neda - becomes a symbol
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The strengths and weaknesses of Twitter
Noam Cohen questions whether the label Twitter Revolution is really a fair label, despite its use in organizing mass protests in Moldova in April and in Iran.
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Tweeting from “the Barricades” in Iran | The Moderate Voice
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Facebook Fuels Iranian Freedom Efforts

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Iranian Protests Showcase Twitter, Facebook, youtube (and Cloud ...
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Facebook Revolution Ratchets Up
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Editorial: Tweeting protest from Iran
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At the same time that Twitter and Facebook facilitate grass-roots communications, though, these technologies sow the seeds for future political repression.
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Neda, the "Angel of Iran" gets Facebook tribute
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FriendFeed, Fizy, Facebook, Freedom in Iran and Feedburner

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On-demand site Fizy offers huge selection of rock songs
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Today, Fizy relaunched with a handful of new features such as the ability to save playlists and the ability to post all played songs to your Friendfeed ...
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Fizy looks interesting. I use Pandora to post songs to FriendFeed and then post to Twitter. I may need to check out Fizy.

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Seriously, how many Web 2.0 companies can say they helped fuel a revolution? The Iran elections have been a serious turning point in social media

Google Blogs Alert for: FriendFeed

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I know I got a huge boost in numbers from FriendFeed counting subscriptions. I also have reason to believe that FriendFeed activity has a big impact on PostRank rankings.

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FriendFeed as a player or a component in real time search?

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TechCrunch

Oddly enough this alert even reflects the change in results for FriendFeed. Much more results FOR FriendFeed that are actually FROM FriendFeed and not actually ABOUT FriendFeed.

Real-Time Search-Off
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Appscout

GizaPage: Your Own Personal Portal
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I don’t know how I feel about structured results. I’m sure I’ll like them I just worry about who’s structuring them for me. I’d like to be able to apply pre-defined parameters myself.

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Real time, I do not know how many times google crawls the web or by using any other method but it is sure ccaching the friendfeed pretty fast since when i google my name it shows my friendfeed comments made today. ...
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From here on out we see an example of two things:

1. Changes in the way Google is focusing on real time results.
2. The fact that FriendFeed gets so little press/blogs.

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FriendFeed badge. Subscribe To. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments. Atom. Comments. FriendFeed widget. Slideshow. Loading... Blog Archive. ▼ 2009 (610). ▼ May (100). I have a business proposal in the tune of $19.5m t. ...
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In the spirit of Dave Winer's showing life... - Louis Gray ...
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In the spirit of Dave Winer's showing life through the eyes of Twitter's SUL, the world through FriendFeed's recommended 24.
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FriendFeed - Sign in on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
By nobody@flickr.com (factoryjoe)
friendfeed.com/account/login.
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And then here we have actual profile results. Weird.

Scott Beale FriendFeed
or Join FriendFeed ・ FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online Learn more ≫, Join FriendFeed. Scott Beale ・ 608 subscriptions ・ 11702 subscribers ...

Louis Gray FriendFeed
Silicon Valley early adopter, tech geek blogger, and dad w/twins.

Darren Rowse FriendFeed
or Join FriendFeed ・ FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online Learn more ≫, Join FriendFeed. Darren Rowse ・ 1475 subscriptions ・ 4166 subscribers ...

Obama throws a tweetup. Banks and Nightline jump on Twitter bandwagon

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Yes and I remember having discussions with VP’s at banks when they said they’d never be able to participate in social media (regulations).

Banks try social networking, jump on Twitter wagon
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E! Online

Seriously Obama just needs to hold tweetups. That’d be awesome.

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ABC News

Internet only twitter targeted news media. I’m very intrigued.

Nightline Teams Up With Twitter for New Web Show
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I get the whole link juice argument, but I really like the metrics. Plus I think the innovation happening here is only going to get better.

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This is really a good book and Rheingold is a must follow in this space.

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