The Entrepreneur Game
I’m getting concerned about the state of entrepreneurship – and not for the reasons you might think. The fashionable complaint is that we don’t have enough entrepreneurs, but I’m beginning to wonder if...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Sentiment Analysis
I’ve been involved with Sentiment Analysis and AI processing of text for years (going on 15 now). It was a huge push back in the heyday of CRM with companies like Kana creating Automated Response Tools...
View ArticleTeddy Kennedy and Lessons on Bipartisan Politics
When you think about it, what bipartisan politics really requires is quite simple – and Ted Jr. explained it about as eloquently as possible today. It is the simple realization that those with whom...
View ArticleThe Growth of @DbacksBooth on Twitter
I’ve been watching the Dbacks broadcast team begin to use Twitter to interact with their audience, and I’ve been using justSignal (shameless plug for my product) to track their efforts. Over the last...
View ArticleNo @zappos Best Practices Don’t Stifle Innovation…
One of the problems with Twitter is that it encourages trite overly-simplistic statements of fact. Hey, here is one from Tony (@zappos) the CEO of Zappos: I’m only posting about this because it has...
View ArticleSomething is DEFINITELY Not Right with Twitter Search
I get hourly emails that show me (graphically) how much justSignal “collects” total from each of the services (Twitter, Blog Search, Backtype, etc). The thing about these graphs is they are amazingly...
View ArticleIt is ALIVE – Twitter Search is Back To Full Speed
Not sure what was going on, and there was no mention of it on the Twitter status blog, but it now appears that Twitter Search (and the search API) is back to full speed. There is no question that all...
View ArticleFollowing the Trend @dbacksbooth on Twitter
Time for another update on the trend line for @dbacksbooth on Twitter. Not much to say beyond the staggering growth in the number of replies to the booth per day. I factored out the early spikes in...
View ArticleCreativity Matters – The Decline of US Creativity
From an interview with Kyung Hee Kim Decrease in Elaboration after 1984: Elaboration scores (ability to develop and elaborate upon ideas and detailed and reflective thinking and motivation to be...
View ArticleBig Data – Spike Volume
One aspect of Big Data is the arrival pattern of the data being stored/analyzed. Yesterdays Rangers win in the ALCS is a excellent example of this. At justSignal we monitor all of the MLB teams and...
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