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November 2010 Election Countdown: Daily Trends, Candidate Tips & the Straw Poll

TipTop's 2010 Midterm Election Special gives voters a quick interactive snapshot of daily election topics and allows folks to delve into the campaign issues & policy debates going on in social media that are important to them. For fun, voters can also take a straw poll to see which political parties & candidates they swing towards for this November's Gubernatorial, Senate & House elections.  

Democratic & Republican, Tea Party & Independent voters' top issues this election vary and how these differences will play out on Tuesday, November 2 will most likely depend on the weather. But seriously, peoples' opinions about the direction of the US economy, healthcare,
government spending, immigration, or energy & the environmnent will all influence voter enthusiasm for the 2010 elections. The only place you can really see what is going inside voters' heads (and your own:) is through TipTop's 2010 Midterm Election Special. TipTop extracts the top campaign issues, about what people are really talking about, which will allow you to hear over the noisy extremists, call out the political centrists, and listen too the sideliners.

Once you are finished perusing the pundits & sharing your opinions on TipTop, don't forget to go to the "Vote Prediction" page to see how you swing & get the latest overall results for TipTop's Midterm Election Straw Poll. Below are some of key races for this years elections with today's snapshot of TipTop sentiment scores & social media buzz topics. Click a candidate's names to go to TipTop results page.

Canditates   jerry brown	Positive Sentiment   23%	Negative Sentiment   13%	Social Media Trending Topics   california, ca, poll, campaign, box, women, office
meg whitman	30%	12%	california, republican, porto, campaign, housekeeper, glendale, ebay
Rodney Glassman	27%	2%	senate arizona campaign video mccain candidate
John McCain	16%	22%	barack obama arizona  nevada senator campaign
Terry Goddard	15%	7%	terror, arizona, home, democrat, office, endorsement, investment fraud indictment
Jan Brewer	20%	22%	arizona, phoenix, obama, prison, law, man, story
Barbara Boxer	16%	16%	box, poll, california, democrat, senate, sacramento, republican
Carly Fiorina	21%	9%	california, box, senate, campaign, news, candidate, hospital
Harry Reid	16%	20%	senate, nevada, leader, election, poll, party, democrat
Sharron Angle	25%	29%	nevada, ad, party, tea, senator, senate, candidate
Kendrick Meek	18%	18%	senate, florida, democrat, candidate, demo, rep, bill clinton
Marco Rubio	23%	15%	rubio, florida, senate, party, tea, candidate, republican
Charlie Crist	16%	20%	senate, florida, clinton, politics, demo, bill clinton, rubio
Democrat	35%	29%	candidate senate party tea republican bill clinton
Tea Party	25%	23%	candidate video halloween party senate republican
Andrew Cuomo	28%	9%	new york city, new york, car, democrat, candidate, campaign, muscle
Carl Paladino	18%	15%	candidate, campaign, new york city, republican, home, girl, new york

Remember Midterm Election trending topics update daily so please return to TipTop's 2010 Election Special for a daily update until November 2nd. Don't forget to find your polling place and vote.

Have a Happy Halloween & embrace the voting booth!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com Why? Because life happens in real time!

Weekend Movies: Which new release film deserves your time or dime?

See what's hot or not for October 1st openings at theaters this weekend on TipTop! Do you need some help deciding which movie to see on the big screen? Are you trying to figure out whether or not a new release film is movie theatre or DVD worthy? Or if you are in the same predicament as @MaddyTweetz, do yourself a favor and use TipTop to help you figure it all out. 

  Debating what movie to catch tonight: The Town, Social Network or Let me In. Thoughts??

The movie grid below is a quick and easy way to compare topics across aggregated sentiment scores, browse current buzz topics & see current tips from social media. To create a similar comparison grid for yourself on TipTop simply go to http://FeelTipTop.com:

1. Enter a movie (or any topic) in the search box and save your query to "My TipTop" (To learn more read our previous My TipTop blog post)
2. Go to "My TipTop" & comare the Selected Queries across positive & negative Tip sentiment, see movie related conversation topics, and get real-time Tips.
3. Click "E-mail" & share your movie grid with friends.

 

New Movies (Click for Current Tips)	:) Tips	:( Tips	Conversation Buzz Topics
The Social Network	41%	6%	social network, movie, facebook, film, story, ticket, life, wonder, seeing, tomatoes, album, world, walls
"Let Me In"	44%	8%	movie, social network, film, horror, never let me go, theatre, scene, man, kid, actor, star, guy
"The Town"	37%	9%	town, movie, social network, girl, work, painting, mall, seeing, car, hotel, eat
Freakonomics	29%	2%	movie, film, book, social network, documentary, author, man, fan, talk
Ip Man OR Yip Man	20%	8%	man, movie, film, legend, social network, hahaha, sama, hahahaha
Barry Munday	19%	60%	movie, bar, greedy, wilson, film, hilarious, performance, man, info, director, ball, talk, role, atlantis
Anjaana Anjaani	44%	14%	movie, film, song, star, stars, theatre, luv, story, bollywood, ticket, hair, c, work, india, p

Below are some of the social media Tips "I liked" & saved in "My TipTop" while checking out what people were "going to see" this weekend.

 

Again, from My TipTop @TwitTipTop can send you or your friends an E-mail like this:

"Hello, these are the snippets you have saved in My TipTop."

Image	Twitter Id	Topic	Snippet
	_socialmedianow	The Social Network	The 10 most Glaring Lies in 'The Social Network' : http://bit.ly/9hyuk2 #thesocialnetwork
	bloodboyhorror	"Let Me In"	Horror-drama 'Let Me In' does its Swedish inspiration original justice: When Overture Films announced it would mak... http://bit.ly/b0jCon
	mting	Ip Man OR Yip Man	Loving the Ip Man 2 soundtrack. More variations than the previous film. A recommendation if u love Oriental film scores #ipman2 #soundtrack
	workingauthor	Barry Munday	'Barry Munday' starring Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Cybill Shepherd, Malcolm McDowell and more reviewed! http://bit.ly/9Ui38o
	trabajareuropa	Freakonomics	@MakingOf: Freakonmics is now in theaters! Hear @MorganSpurlock discuss the film and more @MakingOf http://bit.ly/aVKON6”
	nikkyraney	"The Town"	My movie review for THE TOWN ---> Blake Lively owns 'The Town' By Nikky Raney - http://bit.ly/ccca4E @zennie62.com
	kapylr	Anjaana Anjaani	Enjoyed watching Anjaana Anjaani. Great performances by @priyankachopra and @ranbir_kapoor

Remember to come back to TipTop to guide your film viewing & DVD movie rental decisions or help whenever you are looking for insights around any topic -- locally or globally. Enjoy!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com Why? Because life happens in real time!

TipTop Social Interactions: Ask, Tell & Respond

If you haven't been to TipTop's home page @ http://FeelTipTop.com recently, now is a great time to get reacquainted and check out the "From: TipTop To: TipTop" section. If you are a fan of TipTop on Facebook and follow @twitTipTop on Twitter, then you probably know that you can see a complete social networking profile of TipTop's social media interactions on Twitter at http://FeelTipTop.com/twitTipTop. Here you can see company news, products updates,  insightful musings & tweets, people we communicate with, tweeps who interact with us and our products, and the social sentiment around all of these social networking interactions.

On TipTop's hub page, we are now featuring selected tweets from TipTop users, TipTop answers to people's questions, fun insights into using TipTop, and editorially selected topics and polls. You can use the box "Enter your tip here..." to interact with @twitTipTop via Twitter, asking questions, sharing Tips, responding to polls, and possibly having your tweet featured on TipTop's hub page to be seen by tens of thousands of our users! Please respond to @twitTipTop on Twitter with whatever you would like to tell TipTop today. :)

Enjoy & Have a Tip Top Weekend!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

TipTop Holiday Gift Shopping: Product Reviews, Ratings & Comparisons

TipTop's one-of-a-kind comparison shopping site is ready for your holiday gift purchases. TipTop Shopping takes the bite out of your buying time online!

Do you have time to read 10’s or 100’s of product reviews to make your gift buying decisions this holiday season? TipTop analyzes the text of product reviews and computes scores for several attributes including overall quality, safety, value for money, etc. It also displays the best reviews and extracts the most relevant portions of the review to help you make informed purchasing decisions quickly.

Why use TipTop Shopping? 

• It is the only shopping site where shoppers can search millions of products from Amazon.com, browse through the most relevant matches to view TipTop's product ratings, see user reviews grouped into positive Tips and negative piTs, and have the options to easily  compare up to 10 products, add items to your cart or buy directly from Amazon.com.

• TipTop's one-of-a-kind semantic social search engine analyzes user-generated product reviews from Amazon.com and provides TipTop product ratings and  percentile scores exclusively from these reviews across a variety of attributes, such as Overall  Quality, Safety, Features, Value for Money and Price. Compare up to ten products, sort across the attributes that are important to you, and click the percentile scores to see the product reviews below.

• For the first time, real-time opinions about the products are also incorporated into the shopping experience through TipTop Search widgets. The widget includes: Pie charts displaying the overall sentiment related to the keyword search, the latest Tip and piT tweets related to the product, and the topical buzz   associated with the search results. Click the links to see TipTop search results. Click Reply or Re-Tip to communicate with Twitter users via Tip Top Search. And, don't for get to add your product selections to your cart and checkout on Amazon.com.

Compared with other shopping sites below, TipTop Shopping is far richer, offering an incredibly unique  experience in terms of comparison shopping across products, user-generated review analysis and product ratings, and real-time search, discovery and social interaction.

TipTop Shopping easily helps you to choose the best products for yourself and those on your holiday gift list using search, semantics and the social web.

Happy Holidays!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

TipTop Search via SMS: Opinions delivered to your mobile cell phone

Get TipTop^SM search results on-the-go by using SMS text messaging on your mobile or cell phone. Use TipTop^SM via SMS to find out how people feel about anything currently discussed or published on twitter. Type in a search topic and get back the overall social sentiment or opinion as a percentage of Tips and piTs.

TipTop via SMS is very helpful when you need to:

• make a quick product decision while shopping.
• decide which movie to go to while out and about.
• get the buzz about an activity or event.
• know how people are thinking or feeling about any topic.

Check out the results for:

Follow these steps to get TipTop search results through your phone:

• Initiate a text message by entering DOTCOM or 368266 on your cell phone.
• In the text box type, ftt.nu or feeltiptop followed by the query terms. For example, try typing "ftt.nu smart phone" (without the double quotes).
• Send the message.
• You will quickly receive a SMS text message response similar to the examples above, like this:

(1/1) Opinions about "smart phone" on Twitter are 38% positive Tips and 21% negative piTs FeelTipTop.com

Have a great week! Try TipTop via SMS on you phone or on the web at http:feeltiptop.com or http://ftt.nu.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Semantics of TipTop Search

The connotation around TipTop Search is simply that feeltiptop.com helps you find the best advice, opinions, and answers as well as people to engage and share experiences with. With TipTop Search you get easy access to relevant people, timely tips, and useful tools to communicate information.

Below we highlight five features to familiarize you with TipTop Search:

1. Random Search "I feel lucky!": Click for an example of Sample Searches entered on TipTop. For more information, read our FAQs.

2. People Search: Enter "to:" or "from:" followed by a person's twitter ID or celebrity name to get messages to:Alyssa_Milano, from:Alyssa_Milano or about Alyssa Milano.

3. Advanced Filtering Techniques: Using proprietary techniques to remove duplicate tweet content & marketing spam postings. For more information, read our FAQs.

4. Semantic Content Analysis: TipTop searches messages on Twitter and reads what is being said about the query. It pulls out the most interesting, useful and unique messages that match the search term, and separates them from the less useful ones.

Tweet or message sentiment analysis is displayed as Tips & piTs results and concepts and topics are extracted from tweets and displayed to "Filter by" in the search results sets.                                                                                               

5. Social Search Results:

Displaying the best tweets from relevant people to enable information gathering, content sharing and topical conversations. Click the image for examples.

Enjoy and have a TipTop week!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Searching for the Tips and piTs around Halloween Sentiment

Halloween is coming near, you need not fear TipTop Search is here! Luckily TipTop Search is not as scary as this rhyme! You can find lots of current tips about all things Halloween using http://feeltiptop.com as a social search tool. TipTop Technologies applies semantic analysis to tweets or text messages on twitter and displays the results in two columns as Tip or piTs. Messages in the Tip column generally have positive sentiment or indicate a good experience. Messages in the piTs column have more negative sentiment or a bad experience associated with them. To learn more about Tips and piTs please take a look at TipTop's FAQs.

Need to know what people in the twittersphere are saying about Halloween? Want to know which Halloween costumes are hot and which are not? Have to decide between going to see the movie Zombieland or Trick r Treat? Have fun browsing through the sentiment based search results and the people who posted the messages. A person with a green frame around their picture is very likely to have a positive orientation towards the term searched. A person with a red frame around their picture is very likely to have a negative orientation towards the term searched (TipTop FAQs). Remember you can always share the Tip and piT sentiment around your search results by clicking  


to share on your facebook or twitter account. After you are logged into your twitter account the message above will appear waiting for you to post it. We hope you enjoy your TipTop Search experience and have a spooky Halloween!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Search TipTop for Weekend Fun

TipTop is a one-of-a-kind Twitter-based search engine. Whatever you need, TipTop Search helps you find the best advice, opinions, and answers as well as people to engage and share experiences with.

WoW! Is the statement above true? You bet your artichoke hearts it is:) I was just fussing around this morning and remembered a good friend was participating in the PA Renewable Energy Festival this weekend and decided to do a search on TipTop's Event Channel to see if there was any real-time buzz.  Not nearly as much real-time hupalala as the techcrunch50 event in San Francisco received earlier this week (on TipTop, look for "Search results from before..." to get all the best roundup Tips. The messages with red stars next to them have been ReTipped). 

Looking on TipTop Search to see what is going on this weekend, I came across a variety of messages (tweets) from contributors to this organic twittersphere. They are listed below with some TipTop sharing tips you can use to engage and share experiences with other interesting folks.

A. Event Promotions: Click "E" to expand url or just move your cursor or mouse over external links to see a snapshot view of the content before you commit to click. Check out some great gigs in the SF Bay Area this weekend.

B. Advice or Tip Requests: Click "Reply" with an answer if you can help a person out or "ReTip" them with another persons snippet of helpful information.

C. Activity Partner Opportunities: Click "Reply" to the message if you are interested in joining in or "ReTip" the message if you think someone else would be a good match. Who knows where this might lead;).

D. Event or Activity Tips: Click "ReTip" or "Retweet" if you support, like, or are going to partake in said activity. Be real and share what you are passionate about.

E. Individual Activities or Plans:  "ReTip" a persons message to let them and others know what you like or think is cool. You could open up opportunities for yourself or your followers....like the surprisingly popular activity of farm sitting!

Personally, I found out about the Northern California Renaissance Faire through TipTop Search and found out about ticket discounts, "ReTipped" the pirate invasion post, read event reviews, and discovered other positive and negative tips.

Explore TipTop Search everyday. It really does help you find the best advice, opinions, and answers as well as people to engage and share experiences with.

Have a great weekend,

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Search Engine TipTop Announces New Features

TipTop solves a problem that every internet user has encountered at some point:  how to cut through all of the information that’s out there on the Web and find what’s useful to your everyday life.  The idea is that regular people should be able to reach out and share their experiences with one another, to make even routine activities more efficient and more fun.  People are doing this to some extent using Twitter and other platforms and with our truly semantic solution, we hope to encourage users to engage with others of like interests or temperaments in even more spontaneous and natural ways.

To help users find the information most relevant to a given query, TipTop software filters tweets in two main ways. The first is by the concepts related to the search terms, which appear as a clickable list of keywords once the search is performed. Users can select any of these to narrow down their initial search. The keywords are very useful in showing users the different contexts or relations in which the subject of their search figures in people’s consciousness at the time of the query.

The second filter is the division of the tweets into “Tips,” “Pits,” and “Remaining messages.” Tips and Pits are the tweets that share something useful or important about the search query that may interest the person who entered the query. Tips are the ones that express something positive about the topic, while Pits are complaints or warnings about the topic. Tweets deemed less useful are placed in Remaining messages, and may include polls, advertisements and standard, plain facts.  By moving these messages out of the way, TipTop saves users a lot of time that they would otherwise spend scrolling through tweets, looking for good ones.

The ‘real-time’ quality of the information that TipTop filters makes it part of a growing trend in online search that prizes unedited content generated by non-experts.  Although Twitter is only the first step in our overall vision for this unstoppable phenomenon, it is probably the best example right now of a platform full of real-time information that can be useful with the right technology  to facilitate useful, fast searches and to connect you with the right people. That’s where TipTop comes in. 

TipTop’s new interface encourages users to reply to, or acknowledge the people and tweets that they find interesting. In addition to just searching, users now have the option of replying to the authors of tweets that their search turns up, as well as of “Re-tipping” the authors, or showing their appreciation for a useful tip they discovered. The Reply and Re-tip functions are meant to start conversations between Twitter users with common interests.  TipTop also offers a “Re-tweet” option, which is based on the prolific Twitter RT convention. When users opt to re-tweet content that they found through TipTop, the website automatically sets up a new tweet for them, which shares the initial information and credits its original author.

We have also introduced vertical-specific Channels into TipTop.  We have about a dozen at the moment but we plan to expand to hundreds and perhaps even millions one day.  Only on TipTop, a user can now compare anything with anything side by side.  Yes, I do really mean anything with anything no matter what topic the entities being compared belong to.  This aspect by itself makes TipTop at least a generation or two ahead of any other product that is out there today.

We now offer a way to look at TipTop search results through TipTop Search Widgets that you can place on your blog or website.  Look for the green box in any of our pages and click, “Embed these results” to build your TipTop Search Widget.

The best way to figure TipTop out is to use it.  Not once or twice but every day, all the time. Only reading about it is kind of like only reading about sex.  I believe that neither can be as fulfilling as the corresponding real thing.  (I will refrain from recommending how often anyone should have sex.)

On the day of birth of TipTop, now nearly 3 months ago, I forecast that even the creators of this newborn have little clue about what all it is going to be capable of doing over the course of her/his existence. Today what I wrote then is even more accurate. Each day now, at least ten new and intriguing uses of TipTop emerge. We discover some of these & our users discover others that we had not even anticipated. In the end, TipTop, perhaps more than any other product out there today, is of the world, for the world, and by the world.

Thanks,

Shyam Kapur
President & CEO
TipTop Technologies, Inc.
http://FeelTipTop.com

A New Breed of Internet Service called TipTop is Available From: Life To: Life

Sunnyvale, CA, June 9, 2009 – TipTop Technologies, Inc., a startup internet technology company based in Silicon Valley, announces the release of an early-stage product for semantic analysis of natural language which looks at data as a source of tips that help people solve problems. TipTop^SM is creating an engine of Tips and Tops surrounding all of our experiences -- a wikipedia of expressions. The product will open up the social silos of our individual and collective experience so that one person's Top will be another's Tip. TipTop^SM is harnessing those expressions of experience to help us all make more informed decisions and have choice experiences to share with others. TipTop Technologies's products are todays solutions for enabling incremental learning and unleashing the power of unique individual and aggregate group experience into the future. The core product is built upon natural language search algorithms focused on providing answers to questions formulated around sentiment, emotions, and opinions.

“Users should view TipTop^SM as a unique search product that will expand and develop as the technology, marketplace, and user base evolves and contributes to the underlying semantic search technology developed by our team” says TipTop Technologies, Inc. founder, Shyam Kapur. “Currently the product showcases just a small part of the search and community product functionality which will become more social, more personalized and more intelligent as product features are developed and expanded across technology platforms, social networks, and vertical product markets.”

Current product features to help navigate around your world include:

• Using real time natural language search result content capturing opinion, emotion, and sentiment to guide decision making.

• Deep exploration of text message content filtered by advanced algorithms, concept clouds, and contextualized categories.

• Sharing discoveries across social networks.

• Discovering how you, your followers, events, organizations, or products and services are expressed and discussed across an infinite number of criteria.

• Discovering automatically generated search trends and editorially chosen searches to try.

• Get the latest news and and most relevant content immediately.

TipTop^SM is not a replacement for existing search engines, but will work across networks and platforms, regardless of the data source, to help users efficiently make informed decisions and quickly act upon them. Tips are discovered by searching for them, of course, but it is not necessary to index the entire Web. The TipTop^SM engine finds many useful tips in conversational data, and a tool for exploring such information can complement the tools currently available for searching the Web. As true semantic technologies are not error free at first, TipTop^SM is looking forward to the search community's feedback. TipTop^SM hopes you will discover useful and relevant Tips for your Tops every time you visit, and that you have fun exploring our site at http://www.feeltiptop.com/ -- in short, we hope the experience leaves you feeling tip top!

If you have a chance check out the TipTop video demonstration.

About TipTop Technologies:

Established in 2008, TipTop Technologies, Inc. is a startup internet technology company focused on delivering cutting-edge technology-driven solutions to some of the most challenging problems humans face in the 21st century . TipTop Technologies's mission is helping people in their personal and professional lives to make informed decisions, have choice experiences, and create greater efficiencies through streamlined interactions. Its solution involves proprietary techniques for the collection and aggregation of all data related to life experiences. TipTop Technologies, Inc. has developed unique analytical algorithms that work very well on a vast variety of data. Exposure of the resulting knowledge is enabled through a number of powerful and engaging user interfaces. To learn more about TipTop Technologies, Inc. and our products, please check the company’s blog http://tiptoptechnologies.wordpress.com/, become a fan on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/TipTop/49912966957, and follow twittiptop on Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/twittiptop/.

Media Contact:

Shyam Kapur

shyam@tiptopbest.com

http://www.feeltiptop.com/