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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.
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:
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)
Go to "My TipTop" & comare the Selected Queries across positive & negative Tip sentiment, see movie related conversation topics, and get real-time Tips.
Click "E-mail" & share your movie grid with friends.
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!
Local search results, social media content & solutions for knowing what people are interested in at cities & towns around the world has never been easier. Just use TipTop at http://FeelTipTop.com!
"So what is the answer? GPS-based local offers which push you into taking action based on where you are. In other words, a needs-based location-aware mobile-based advertising platform that’s a part AdSense and part Groupon."
The primary issue facing small businesses & local advertisers is how to get in front of customers with the right message at the right time to fulfill what is on the Top of their mind. A post on GrowMap's blog, "How to Use TipTop for Real-Time Market Research", illustrates how http://FeelTipTop.com can be used for brand marketing & consumer sentiment analysis. It is easy to see how TipTop's semantic technology can extract what is on the Top of people's minds & provide related answers. With the introduction of location based search functionality into the TipTop platform, real-time geo-targeted lead generation becomes even more effective & beneficial for consumers & advertisers alike. Now, TipTop's platform for discovering what is on the Top of people's
mind & delivering the best Tips becomes even more powerful. Here's how to use TipTop to find who is "hungry" in Boston right now:
Enter your query in the “Search for Tips” box.
Click “Localize by Region” in the results title.
Enter a city & click “Search” on the pop-up map.
Interact with the resulting Tips below.
Do you have the right Tips to help these people out? Matching through "My TipTop" takes one person's Top and answers with another's Tip. For example:
TipTop's Labor Day tips can prepare you for the backyard barbecue, inform you about neighborhood sidewalk sales & distant travel deals, and suggest ideas for Labor Day celebration activities and events with your family and friends.
Make TipTop your constant companion and find delightful insights to help
you with decisions and problems you need to solve every day, no matter
how trivial or profound!
This "Labor Day weekend" let TipTop serve up some great ideas, useful contacts, & insightful perspectives on any current topic by:
Providing relevant Tips "right away" when you do a TipTop search.
Connecting you with Top people who are talking about your interests now & who can provide relevant tips.
Analyzing conversations to provide hot topics, sentiment & popularity trends around the people, places & things of interest to you.
Get inspired for that Labor Day BBQ by discovering great recipes, activities & backyard chefs.
When you find a useful Tip, share it by clicking "I like" and posting something on twitter like:
I like @finecooking's "Strawberry-Mint Tea Sparkling Punch-- Add a splash of lemon-lime soda or sparkling wine..." tip http://ftt.nu/icxF8 in TipTop at http://ftt.nu/vunSU for "recipes".
Diet tip 4 surviving the holiday weekend: Grill up some #BOCA burgers with these recipes to keep calories... http://ftt.nu/5zMP9 RT @bocameatless (via http://FeelTipTop.com)
I like @grillsrecipes's "Barbecue Champ - The Best Competition Barbecue Recipes http://divr.it/4g9f1 ..." tip http://ftt.nu/ZAEs7 in TipTop at http://ftt.nu/vunSU for "recipes".
Get "big picture" perspectives from TipTop's analysis of social media conversations for this Labor Day weekend:
The federal election campaign in Australia has reached its final days with the governing Labor Party & opposition Coalition Party neck and neck. Today a psychic saltwater crocodile picked Labor Party leader Julia Gillard to be elected Prime Minister by gobbling a chicken hanging from her head shot (more from the National Post). TipTop's social media sentiment predictions are a bit more refined and still show the candidates running head-to-head, except in Perth where the Coalition leader Tony Abbott was lagging.
Using TipTop to follow the Australian vote is easy. You can get parliamentary election discussions broken down into browsable topics & positive and negative snippets by searching #ausvotes. To see what the important issues are for Australian voters from ABC's Australia Votes 2010 twitter thread, view TipTop's results for #myvote to see more than just streaming tweets. From this real-time social search perspective you can see changing sentiment trends, hot topics & the tips to show you what people are thinking about regarding the issues, candidates, and the overall election.
Elections are local events, so today on TipTop's hub page at http://FeelTipTop.com we feature social media polling results for both candidates for Prime Minister in key cities across Australia - the day before Saturday's election outcome. Below are cities for which we got Julia Gillard & Tony Abbott sentiments' results by entering the candidates name into the TipTop search box and selecting the city from the "Any place" pull-down menu. Click on the links below to see the latest results for either candidate. At the time of this snapshot, TipTop's polling results show:
Adelaide voters saw Julia Gillard with 30% positive & 13% negative sentiment. For latest results go to http://ftt.nu/fxDgj. Sentiment results for Tony Abbott were 33% positive & 22% negative. For the latest results go to http://ftt.nu/mHYZa.
People in Brisbane wrote about Gillard positively 23% & negatively 21% of the time at http://ftt.nu/EJ8i7 & Tony Abbott 24%:) & 27%:( @ http://ftt.nu/w73SX.
This week onwards you can use TipTop, the Insight Engine, to get the best tips, perspectives and personal connections from specific locations all around the world. The ability to get the best tips about local activities, haunts, businesses & news is as easy as entering a query in the search box on FeelTipTop.com & selecting a specific location from the adjacent "Any place" drop-down menu. There are many ways to make use of TipTop's local social search such as geo-location marketing, asking local experts, discovering new restaurants, or learning how people feel about any local or global issue. Today, I noticed a positive sentiment spike to 56% in TipTop's In-depth coverage of "President Obama Approval Ratings", so I took a TipTop snapshot of the political pulse around President Obama across the country. You can learn more about TipTop's social media polling, daily sentiment trend summaries & benchmarking of these results in one of our earlier blog posts. From cities around the US & overseas, these are some insights TipTop extracted from your tweets:
TipTop's Atlanta "Obama" sentiment trends at the time of this search were 22% positive & 20% negative and the concept cloud topics included 'news, gm, man, home, star, people, & speech'. Gregomyleggo shared these results on Twitter by selecting "Sentiment Trends" from the top right "I Like" button.
TipTop's Austin "Obama" results had similar sentiment ratings to those for Atlanta. Of course, the topics were different, focusing on concepts like 'oil, admin, american, senate & snooty'. Gregomyleggo saw a provoking snippet, so he clicked "Reply" to send a tweet to the poster.
TipTop's Boston "Obama" results showed people not thinking too highly of the President, tweeting negatively 17% of the time about topics corresponding to "Obama" & 'people, admin, gm, blackberry, tv & headset'.Gregomyleggo thought a couple of the "Top Pages on the Web" TipTop extracted from these Bostonians were interesting enough to share on Twitter (by selecting the option from the "I Like" button).
Chicago& Los Angeles pundits shared few opinions let alone similar sentiment toward the President. We should look more into how these folks thought about his appearance on "The View"!
Both San Francisco & Seattle are clearly on the left coast as judged by the Tips & piTs corresponding to those cities. While looking at the view from Washington, we see much more excitement about Michelle Obama at Good Stuff Eatery than about the real issues ;)
For a somewhat more international perspective, I took a look at TipTop results for Toronto & London. Tiptop found they are also tweeting about "The View" but their take on President Obama is quite different. Toronto tweets are 27% positive, focusing on topics such as auto, detroit, worker, michigan & car. London tweets are slightly more negative, trash talking the President 18% of the time ... mostly about "The View", healthcare & his blackberry.
Rememberhttp://FeelTipTop.com whenever you are looking for any kind of tips around town. Also, please send us your feedback so we can improve our local results to make your
& others' life experiences more & more TipTop.
Our previous blog post presented an outline of the bookmarking & social matching features and
capabilities of our query personalization tool My TipTop. The
significance of users' being able to save relevant answers to their
questions (as well as the questions themselves, so that new matching
answers can be easily found) was not lost on Zaino whose article looks
at search in the Question & Answer sense as a shared community experience:
"The idea behind My TipTop is that users can match
top-of-mind queries at
FeelTipTop.com with snippets from others – Tips (positive comments),
piTs (caveat emptor-type stuff) or Neither (neutral) – in a “call and
response” fashion, and then share these as selected searches, as
selected tips and piTs via email, or to match people's tips and tops
through Twitter."
In this post, we show you a real example of how I used "My TipTop" to find the perfect baby
stroller for our little girl. In this case, My TipTop was primarily used as a workspace to save tweets & queries from multiple TipTop search results pages. Positive (Tip) & negative (piT) product review tweets were saved about specific strollers queried. Neutral tweets were saved containing links to "how to choose" a baby stroller for example. Product queries like "instep jogging" were also saved to compare consumer sentiment ratings across brands. Tip: Look for the "Add to My TipTop" icon
to store specific tweets or the query itself to My TipTop when using TipTop search.
While using "My TipTop" for finding which baby stroller was most
compatible with our active lifestyle, baby's needs and family budget I was able
to:
compile a lot of real-time product reviews from a multiple search
results pages,
identify specific strollers, search TipTop and save the queries as
topics to compare ratings, get related concepts & the latest tweets,
complete the circle by helping others by sharing my findings &
matching one person's Tip to another's Top.
Once all the legwork was done searching on TipTop, adding items to My TipTop, and comparing results the stroller solution presented itself: Jeep Sport, Contours Stroller or the Instep Stroller. Although not yet integrated with My TipTop, TipTop Shopping's unique product review summaries & rating scores helped me finalize a purchasing decision by comparing these strollers across quality, price & safety ratings.
It is, of course, TipTop's semantic technology that makes it possible
for individual consumers to mine the community's knowledge (and
willingness to share it) in a useful as well as timely manner, like
when a particular question for which others may have useful tips is
top-most in their mind. Making the deluge of unstructured data, like real-time tweets,
meaningful to individuals is what TipTop's Insight Engine is all about. The article "Opinion gathering: making sense of unstructured data",
illustrates the current search dilemma:
"Instead
of a few random web pages with some
information on the product embedded in them, we prefer the output to be
packed with purchase advices from customer reviews. This will enable us
to leverage on the experience of the people who
bought this product in the past. So, we need a search service that
understands the semantics of a web page- not the one that simply churns
out a set of web page links." J. Murali, The Hindu
Life happens real-time & TipTop's results intrinsically reflect that
dynamic nature. TipTop's semantic sauce takes care of finding the best
Tips around any current topic or "Top" people enter into the Insight
Engine. Two additional components for finding the best Tips for what is
on the Top of your mind are being able to bookmark searches (Tops) &
snippets (Tips) and the ability to match one person's Tip with
another's Top. This is where the My TipTop tool helps you organize your
real-time search experience through the ability to add snippets of
information (tweets), tagged to search topics, into My TipTop.
Using the
My TipTop tool allows users to easily store and compare similar or
disparate real-time tweet content by sentiment type, search topics &
time in the "Selected Tips & piTs" section. Your searches (Tops)
can also be saved, compared, results updated & related topics
displayed in My TipTop's "Selected Queries" section as well. In addition
you can take action on your research & help others by matching
their questions (Tops) with answers (Tips) you have found in the "Tips
& Tops for Matching" section.
The My TipTop tool & interface was created as a first step in
alleviating the frustration of not being able to capture, compare &
match dynamically changing real-time content. Please send us your feedback so we can improve "My TipTop" and stay tuned in for many more enhancements & functionality to make your & others' life experiences more TipTop.
Also, this month TipTop is celebrating its first year anniversary of the birth of its social search & insight engine FeelTipTop.com and we are excited to announce the launch of "My TipTop"at this time. My TipTop will become a core component of TipTop's
vision enabling users to bring any Web content, analyzed through TipTop's semantic engine, under their control in manageable snippets. Anyone can use My TipTop by searching on FeelTipTop.com & then adding snippets, with people & search content to compare topics, bookmark results and match people's questions (Tops) with others' answers (Tips).
For example, use My TipTop to help make the most of your SemTech 2010 conference experience on or offline:
While browsing TipTop results, Add useful Tips, piTs or Neither snippets to My TipTop for yourself, a friend or an attendee.
To add companies participating in the SemTech 2010 conference, to compare in My TipTop's "Selected Queries" section enter the company name in the search box and then click in the search results title bar. You can see the last three "Selected Queries" in the left column My TipTop module.
Look for "My TipTop" on the left side of the search results page and
click "See all" to go to My TipTop. There, you can sort, browse your "Selected Tips
& piTs" and take action.
Once on My TipTop, looking at (A) "Selected Tips & piTs" you can add search topics to (B) "Selected
Queries" or (C) Add snippets to match people's questions (Add to Tops) with
other's answers (Add to Tips).
Besides taking (A) the Actions above, you can (B) Sort, (C) Search & (D) View Top Tips & piTs via My TipTop to help compare items & see more details.
Share your (A) Selected Searches & (B) Selected Tips & piTs via Email or (C) Match people's Tips & Tops through twitter.
Let @twitTipTop know how you like My TipTop & make sure you follow the social media buzz for the 2010
Semantic Technology Conference. If you go, please stop by TipTop's table along the Startup Alley & remember to enter your twitter ID in our Persona Predictor game.
This week TipTop is participating inVator.tv's SemTech Startup competition, "identifying
the best-of-breed startups in the Semantic Technology,
Semantic Web space". TipTop's Insight engine constantly features the best-of-breed results for any current topic. Each day this week, TipTop's hub has featured a variety of trendy & public interest topics highlighting some great Tips and unique perspectives from twitter users. These Top Tips & TipTop use cases can be found at TipTop's Insight Archive.
Just as the world around us is constantly changing, TipTop's results reflect the ever changing dynamics of people's opinions, new discoveries & solutions to complex problems. For example:
Kites, real-time movie reviews: See why people think of "Kites movie" as 43% Tips & 8% piTs on TipTop http://ftt.nu/PjheO. Share TipTop results like this by clicking
Lost finale, perplexed TV fans share their thoughts as TipTop captures them:
As the 1st Round of the French Open kicked off, TipTop's results captured tennis fan's winning predictions & off court whispers. TipTop's results are real-time, so come back often to see a topics trends & get search tips as well.
BP's "Top Kill" solution to the Gulf Coast oil spill generated a lot of buzz this week, however it did not drive many to have favorable opinions towards Toyota & the Prius, as the social media sentiment trends showed this week. Regardless of President Obama's involvement, his approval ratings have stayed stable, like his demeanor, over the past week, so use TipTop's In-depth coverage to see a summary of what was happening each day to affect the slight changes to his presidential ratings. As you can see, people voices many thoughts about the "BP oil spill" disaster as well as sharing a lot of Web pages.
Recently launched TipTop
Finance lets you explore who is bullish, bearish or neutral & why for the financial markets and any publicly traded company. Our new site integrates quarterly corporate earnings calendars, daily company reporting lists & finance-specific social media search results. TipTop
Finance is the only place you can get pre-call and post earnings public company sentiment trends year round with social search results specific to the financial industry. As noted in a previous blog post,"TipTop's
sentiment analysis of real-time tweets is a leading indicator, often
predicting correctly the rise and fall in sentiment around topics
such as President Obama
approval ratings when measured in more traditional
ways." (Read more from "TipTop's Presidential Ratings, Social Sentiment & Financial Indicators").
Use the Quarterly Earnings Calendar to select specific dates for company earnings reports, view reporting company's sentiment trend charts, and click a company's ticker symbol to see TipTop finance search results.
The TipTop Finance search
results
pages works the same as the regular TipTop search results, only now there is the ability to toggle between regular social search
results and finance specific content.
TipTop now allows users to seamlessly move back and forth between finance-specific search and regular TipTop social search results pages for any query. Users can turn on & off the finance filter for their query simply by clicking the "TipTop
Finance" button top right of the search results page title. Compare the results below for "Wal-Mart", where you have the same TipTop layout & functionality in addition to content specific to finance.
May your blue-chips be rising, technology stars be shining & hyperbolic stocks be shorted;)
Today, we launched TipTop Finance, a must-visit web site for anyone who follows the business prospects of public companies year round. We will tell you more about that site in one of our future posts.
We are also excited to announce several new features in addition to the friendlier layout in our search results page:
After you type just a few letters in the search box, real-time query suggestions now start to appear. Through analysis of a variety of relevant data, we try to anticipate the most likely user needs at that time.
In the first column, we now offer suggestions as to how your query can be modified to get even more focused results. These suggestions are also derived in real-time. For example, for the query "sharks" in the context of the NHL playoffs, the suggestions might be a query involving the terms "game", "san jose" and "hockey" in addition to "sharks".
In addition to our widely used "I Like", "Retweet" and "Reply" buttons, we now offer a "Forward" button that you can use to forward easily any interesting tweet to few specific persons.
These new features make TipTop even more powerful. No matter what your need, you can now very likely find its fulfillment at TipTop. Should you ever forget that the TipTop site is at http://FeelTipTop.com, you can go to your favorite search engine like Google and search for TipTop to get back to us easily. You can also search within these search engines for TipTop pages by prefixing your query with the word tiptop. For example, the query "tiptop bieber" on Google will get you to a page with a link to the TipTop page for "Justin Bieber". When you search on Google, you can alternatively use their "I Feel Lucky" button rather than the Search button to come straight to the right page on TipTop. As long as, one way or another, you find your way to TipTop, you can easily get the very best tips round the clock from us.
TipTop, the Insight Engine, now offers a brand-new way for consumers to comparison shop & make purchasing decisions online or in-store. TipTop's one-of-a-kind semantic social
search engine
continues to analyze user-generated product reviews from Amazon.com and provide
TipTop product ratings & percentile scores exclusively from these
reviews across a variety of attributes (Read more...).
TipTop's shopping experience goes way beyond just comparing product prices like other comparison shopping sites. Now with TipTop Shopping, all experiences lead to "My TipTop Space" to help you quickly decide what products or gifts will meet your needs! For example, search for a Personal Care product like "razor" and quickly review the short product summary results. Click "Add to My Space" all the items on the page you wish to compare in greater detail. You can then, continue clicking through additional product result pages, enter another product search, or click "Go to My Space" to start comparing items with TipTop's unique product rating scores & sort items across a variety of product attributes like Quality, Value & Features in addition to Price.
With "My TipTop Space" you can:
Quickly compare multiple products, ratings & prices before you buy.
Easily organize your shopping list in one place & make informed decisions.
Get relevant product reviews & real-time tips from real consumers all on one page.
Enjoy using the new "My TipTop Space" for making quick & easy online comparison shopping decisions and buying the best products for your needs with Amazon.com's selection of books, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes, jewelry, beauty & personal care, gourmet food & just about anything else.
TipTop In-Depth Coverage pages illustrate how TipTop's semantic technology can extract insights from social media, measure topical sentiment trends & aggregate real-time Web content in a meaningful way based upon people's natural language expression found in tweets and social networking platforms like Twitter. TipTop's sentiment charts measure trends effectively and accurately for any current topic, subject or event (See Sentiment, Social Media & Twitter Trends). TipTop also provides Tips, piTs & Top Web pages to help you determine why the positive or negative sentiment was the way it was at any moment in time. TopTop's In-Depth Coverage can now be built easily across any number of different topic areas:
Please enjoy TipTop's latest In-Depth Coverage by clicking on the following topics below: Health Care, IPad, NCAA, President Obama, Prius, Tiger Woods & Toyota. TipTop's semantic trend analysis, satisfaction ratings & summary results creates many opportunities for a variety of stakeholders:
Comparatively, TipTop's semantic trend analysis is low cost, automated,
and more reflective of the general population while providing accurate
polling through social media.
We offer the ability to get overall sentiment results as well as
high quality accurate summary examples from any social or political
angle through
well chosen keyword searches.
You can easily find out what the exact reason is behind the numbers
and you can find opinions at finer levels of granularity than any
traditional polling technique could ever uncover.
Questions relevant to
a topic are also learned from the data so that there is no need to ask
a rigid set of questions at the start of a poll. The responses that are measured are spontaneous utterances of the wider
population. They are not influenced in any way such as in the case of
an artificial setup of a traditional poll.
At TipTop Technologies, we use natural language analysis, sentiment trend methodology and summary knowledge extraction that is vastly superior to all
existing approaches so that we can truly build the future of search & the semantic Web. It is less costly, faster, more comprehensive and more
accurate. What else could anyone want? If you are ready to embrace the
new world of possibilities we have opened up for you, please contact us.
Using TipTop results to follow hashtags on twitter like #marchmadness or #ncaa tournament is a fun & efficient way to keep up with the latest commentary, opinions & websites people are tweeting about. In TipTop's In-Depth Coverage for March Madness, we present a deeper level of natural language analysis on the aggregate level through the NCAA Basketball Sentiment Trend chart and summary presentation below.
Mouse-over the trend chart to see daily Tip & piT scores for NCAA tweets.
Click the daily search topics TipTop extracted related to the NCAA over time.
Read the top Tips & piTs for the day, as well as see the top Web pages people were tweeting about.
Get a quick summary preview of people's opinions about the remaining Sweet 16 teams by mousing over the pie charts.
Betting your odds, come back for the Elite 8 winners, and click on the the college teams for TipTop search results.
How are your teams' bracket standings going into the Final Four? Remember, TipTop is the best place to follow your teams & get top quality results.
Trend
analysis of real-time social media as a predictive indicator is an
active area of research at TipTop Technologies, and we look forward to presenting
more insights into the relationship of sentiment trends and financial
markets, consumer shopping patterns & election results like presented in our predictions for the
2010 Academy Award Winners or social mediaSentiment Trends for President Obama.
As the President and CEO of TipTop
Technologies, a start-up company that builds software to extract
meaning and patterns from natural language and other unstructured
data, I am proud to present TipTop's role in the future of search. Our first consumer product on the Internet can be found at
FeelTipTop.com. It is an Insight Engine that helps users find, in
real-time, insights from all over the Web. These insights are mined
through the application of highly sophisticated proprietary semantic
technologies.
The TipTop Perspective: Human life is a series of experiences.
Our past experiences provide us with the requisite know-how to deal
with new situations we come across every day. Before the computer age,
learning from past experiences was mostly recorded only within the
human mind and that is what humans relied on to make the best
decisions in the course of their lives. As computers and then the
Internet became more widespread, people started to rely on services
like search to augment the knowledge within their own mind. Today,
the tens of billions of queries that users type into search boxes
each day are a testament to the fact that users recognize the value
of having instant access to records of their and others’ past
experiences. Only since the Internet became established as the de
facto way to share and find information, has the possibility become
real on a very wide scale that a human being can leverage not just
their own past experiences but also others’ past experiences. This
other person can be a friend or influencer or even a complete
stranger. Whether we are conscious of this or not, today, many of our experiences, both online and offline, are influenced by what others think
and what others do (More from TipTop's blog).
The TipTop Approach: If we were to somehow aggregate all the experience records corresponding to what happened, where, when, to whom and
what it was like, all over the globe, we could be looking at many
trillions of such unique records each day. Clearly, not all of these records are equally valuable. In fact,
perhaps a good majority of these experience records could be considered to be
little more than noise. Many might be valuable only when grouped
together with others in some aggregate structure while only a
relatively small proportion of them might be quite valuable in their
own right. By determining which of these records are
exactly how valuable, one can produce some useful signals
out of this mass of data. (More from TipTop's blog)
The Internet has facilitated greatly the capture and storage of vast numbers of experience records. Starting some years ago, Web sites like Amazon,
TripAdvisor and Yelp became successful in getting users to enter
records of their day-to-day experiences. In turn, consumers flocked
to these sites to help find the best records of others’ past
experiences in order to improve their own future experiences. More recently, social networks like Facebook and Twitter have
become main-stream. On these networks, users publish their
observations of their world – the records of many of their online
and offline experiences – several times a day. These status
updates are a mix of facts – what happened – and opinion – what
was it like. Blogging and now microblogging are common ways by which
users share facts and opinion. In turn, what users read and how they
behave is nowadays often influenced by what is promoted within such
social media. (More from TipTop 's blog)
TipTop Solutions: With all these recent developments, the rate of capture of experience records is increasing astonishingly fast. As a result, whereas not too long ago there was
insufficient data of this nature to do anything interesting, now we
face a different challenge: There is far too much data. No human
being can read and absorb the sometimes hundreds of thousands of user
reviews & user status updates that may all be relevant to a
decision that they need to make. Also, information that is relevant
to the particular situation a user faces could be from the very recent past. As the world moves more and more
towards real-time communication, it is natural that users would
expect to be able to leverage the most up-to-date information.
Knowing that the road two miles ahead is blocked is critical to know
at the moment one is stuck in traffic not an hour later. Thus, this new challenge -
how to extract the best signal out of this ever-growing mass of
useful data, including data
which might be barely a second or two old - is perhaps even greater than the earlier challenge of
capturing this data. (More from TipTop 's blog)
Much of the data in the experience records is in the form of natural language because that is the means
for recording & communication that humans find natural. There are
a variety of cues that help attach a reasonable metric of value to
these records singly and in the aggregate. One of the most
important cues is how much people talk about any particular
experience – their own or that of others, i.e., how popular it is.
Popularity is perhaps the single most commonly used cue to attach
value to pieces of data. All major search engine ranking algorithms
leverage popularity of sites as judged by how many other sites link
to them, how many users visit them, and so on, to help determine
appropriate ranking of sites in their search result pages.
(More from TipTop 's blog)
It is easy to see, however, that the popularity
cue is not sufficient to extract powerful insights from
the experience records. Lots of folks might be expressing opinions
about someone or something but in a negative way. That it is popular
is no guarantee it is good. And even among things that are judged to be
good, there often is a lot of variation in the opinions. Also, while
the opinion might be positive about one aspect of something, it could be
negative about another. It is thus not sufficient to know popularity
or sentiment at only a coarse level of granularity. The search results example for St. Patrick's Day illustrates the complexity & richness of what TipTop can extract and analyze about what people are eating, what kind of holiday people are having, and how people are celebrating.
Popular search services like Google are
only slowly coming to grips with the changing nature of available
information and increasing user expectations. Information retrieval
paradigms from 40 years ago on which most of the current crop of
search engines are based suddenly feel hopelessly outdated. Users now
expect search engines to not just show the familiar 10 links but
rather to provide powerful insights extracted out from the data. Users want the
machine to be smarter at recognizing the intrinsic worth of each
piece of data – no matter how freshly generated it is – taking
into account a number of factors not just a cue like popularity to
determine relevance. Users also want to communicate in real time with other users who might have
additional information that could be relevant to their current
situation. (More from TipTop 's blog)
Information in real-time, social,
unstructured experience records has a texture very different from
that of static Web pages, just like a classroom lecture is different
from a textbook. Also, sentiment analysis is a much harder problem
than estimation of popularity. Popularity score can be built up by
careful bookkeeping; sentiment analysis, on the other hand, requires
dealing with the full complexity of natural language. (More from TipTop FAQs)
At TipTop, we view these experience records as containing (among other things) ‘tips’ that,
correctly identified and organized, can be useful to other people
when similar considerations are at the ‘top’ of their mind.
Hence, we named our young company TipTop. By successfully mining the
right tips – those related to other peoples’ experiences in
situations similar to ours – TipTop tries to improve the search
experience for the user. Our aim is to help users discover the most
useful, relevant and actionable information out there for any situation
at hand, as well as connect with other interesting people engaged in
similar pursuits. (More from TipTop FAQs)
The approach we have taken at TipTop
reflects our view, based on many years of reflection, research and
experience, that language is a social creation which solves a
definite human need for relevant information, and that it is
structured accordingly. Algorithms can be designed, therefore, that
take apart the everyday instances of language use, i.e., the
sentences spoken and written by people in everyday situations, in a
way that reveals the semantic content within the unstructured text. TipTop’s technology is built to extract insights from
within experience records as effectively as possible. Each and every
word in the records is read by TipTop just like a human would.
Because our approach mimics the cognitive process itself, the data
‘takes care of itself’ so to speak. Once meaning is extracted
from within individual experience records, powerful analytical techniques are
applied to synthesize meaning from various interesting aggregations
of these records. (More from TipTop's Vision)
Today, dozens of startups as well as the search industry leaders are
working hard to produce effective solutions to the social search challenges I have
discussed. TipTop is proud to be playing an important role in
contributing successfully to this growing trend. Everyone recognizes
that the opportunity is huge. Everyone knows that search tomorrow is
not going to look much like search today.
I invite each reader to be a part of
this real-time search revolution. Help us and
other search pioneers in any way you can so that the Internet world
tomorrow will be a little bit brighter.
For this year's Academy Awards, TipTop was the only place I needed to be at to get the most out of the entire 2010 Oscar's Celebrations. For some, seeing celebrities strut their fashion sense down the Red Carpet was the best part of watching the Academy Awards, and catching up on the After Party gossip & Oscar fashion trash talking was even better. This year it was fun & insightful to take a look at this glitzy event through TipTop's celebrity search results & Oscars leaderboard trend charts. Keeping up with the Red Carpet after party tweets via TipTop was also a trip, learning how Meryl Streep makes it all good, wondering about the deal between Steve Martin and George Clooney, and what about that Sandy Powell outfit! We now know Cinnabuns are out & who the Worst Dressed & the Best Dressed celebrities were are and will be from Khloe Kardashianand the fashion police.
From the rant to the results & key findings: Overall, using social media data to predict the Academy Award winners based upon the sentiment analysis of millions of tweets related to the Oscar nominees proved successful in a number of ways. For the thirteen nominations tracked,TipTop's Oscar's Tip Leaderboard showed the winners 46% of the time. TipTop's results illustrate the ease of making predictions through proper semantic analysis of tweets; displaying positive & negative trends (Click piTs Leaderboard Charts) around social media topics like actors & movies, and extracting summaries (key tweets & top Web sites) from the data to provide insights into why a topic is trending.
TipTop's prediction success for the seven "major" awards was much higher than for the other awards with less data to analyze. The larger the amount of
data processed, higher the likelihood that TipTop's prediction was right. Using TipTop to pick the major awards seemed to
prove at least a 200-300% higher success rate than random Oscar
predictions. Best Picture was particularly hard to get right this year because there were ten nominations instead of five to
pick from.
TipTop
provided a powerful analytics tool that could be used by a human being
to make high-quality predictions. There were many ways to use the
analysis to derive predictions (Tip & piT Leaderboard Trend Charts, Tip & piT summaries, TipTop search results, etc.). If more people had made predictions
based on TipTop using the analysis, some of them would have been even
more successful than those who did.
Trend
analysis of real-time social media as a predictive indicator is an
active area of research at TipTop Technologies, and we look forward to presenting
more insights into the relationship between sentiment trends and prediction in financial
markets, shopping patterns, and political opinion like in our President Obama In-Depth Coverage (See TipTop'sBlog post).
TipTop's 82nd Academy Awards: 2010 Oscars coverage offers fun perspectives & insights into Oscar predictions & Academy Award winners. TipTop Technologies harnesses the power of your tweets to extract the best daily Tips, highlight Top sites on the Web & show sentiment trend Tip & piT Leaderboards around the Oscar nominees & Academy Award nominations. Maybe 2010 is the year that TipTop's semantic analytics will indeed pick the 82nd Academy Award winners through crowd-sourcing tweets.
Tweet about your favorite nominations & awards picks, check out the daily leader-board winners & see social media Tip summaries for each nominee.
Check back Sunday, March 7th (5pm PST) after the red carpet show to see the final Leaderboard results & the accuracy of TipTop's Oscar predictions.
For the 82nd Academy Awards, TipTop's 2010 Oscar Picks are:
In
this blog post, we show some striking correlations
by comparing side-by-side, TipTop's satisfaction and dissatisfaction ratings with
those of Gallup's
from November 2009 (when we started collecting data for analysis)
till now.
The
Gallup ratings and
TipTop's semantic analysis of social media data have parallel
results, both long term trends and daily spikes within a 3% margin
for error. For example, why did both TipTop Sentiment and Gallup
Poll ratings all spike positively on December 16, 2009? This was the
date on which President Obama delivered his Nobel Prize Acceptance
speech.
TipTop's
daily satisfaction dissatisfaction ratings tend to rise or fall 0-3
days before traditional polling results spike. For example, on Jan
28th there was a positive spike for the President's State of the
Union Address which was reflected only a few days later in the
Gallup ratings.
We
note with some
surprise that TipTop’s presidential sentiment analysis can be
predictive of stock market movements in the short term. For
example, a
spike of 5% or more in the daily TipTop satisfaction score (such as
those on Nov 3, Nov 8, Dec 10, Jan 28 and Feb 6) is followed within
a couple of days by a rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 2%
or more.
Our
early findings suggest that perhaps earlier studies on whether
Presidential ratings lead the stock market have been too quick to
dismiss the possibility. (See for example, the April 2006 article in
Slate, Obscure
Economic Indicator: Presidential Approval Ratings,
that concludes that “it
takes a while for bad economic news to filter into polling data…[and
by] the time poor approval ratings measure this economic pessimism,
much of the bad news has already been priced into stocks.” A
timely, accurate and automated polling technology like TipTop’s has
the potential to uncover surprising insights into the psychology of
the markets.
Trend
analysis of real-time social media as a predictive indicator is an
active area of research at TipTop Technologies, and we look forward to presenting
more insights into the relationship of sentiment trends and financial
markets, shopping patterns, election results and predictions for the
2010 Academy Award Winners (like Sentiment Trends for President Obama). Stay tuned.
As the Olympians & the world approach the pinnacle of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games hosted in Vancouver, TipTop Technologies is excited to be capturing the highs & the lows surrounding the games through tweets. Think of TipTop as an insight engine, capturing & analyzing all the tweet commentary, Web content & sentiment trends around current events in social media. You can ask, tell or send a tip @twitTipTop from the TipTop hub and your tweet may be featured or your question answered revealing insights from TipTop search results like what others think are potential Olympic sports for 2012, e.g. the current pole dancing social media phenomenon.
For the more serious Winter Olympic fan, TipTop's 2010 Winter Olympics: Vancouver Games interactive time-line chart exposes the overall positive (Tip) and negative (piT) trends, it also displays the top Tip tweets, piT tweets, and Web pages
which reflect the sentiment & news on any particular day. You can
move the date-line slider below the trend chart to see the Tips, piTs
and Web pages for any day to gain insights into why the sentiment gap
is the way it is.
For example, on February 17th there was a spike in piTs because Olympic fans felt NBC's Olympic coverage was poor & there was an Olympics concert accident.
TipTop's semantic trend analysis and summary results creates many opportunities for gleaning insights from social media data:
Comparatively, TipTop's semantic trend analysis is low cost, automated,
and more reflective of the general population while providing accurate
polling through social media.
We offer the ability to get overall sentiment results as well as
high quality accurate summary examples from any social or political
angle through
well chosen keyword searches.
You can easily find out what the exact reason is behind the numbers
and you can find opinions at finer levels of granularity than any
traditional polling technique could ever uncover.
Questions relevant to
a topic are also learned from the data so that there is no need to ask
a rigid set of questions at the start of a poll. The responses that are measured are spontaneous utterances of the wider
population. They are not influenced in any way such as in the case of
an artificial setup of a poll.
TipTop's polling methodology and approach is vastly superior to all
existing methods. It is cheaper, faster, more comprehensive and more
accurate. What else could anyone want? If you are ready to embrace the
new world of possibilities we have opened up for you, please contact us.
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. :)
TipTop Technologies analyzed the real-time social media sentiment from tweets related to over forty top brands or products which bought advertising spots on CBS's Sunday's Super Bowl 44 broadcast of the NFL Playoff game between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. On most Super Bowl Commercial ratings sites you will see polling results or an editor's picks for the best ads and the worst commercials, like in TIME Magazine's 2010 Super Bowl Commercials List. There are also Super Bowl search metrics which show search volume and even real-time tweets during the game as shown on Twitter's blog post. TipTop agrees with the article's author, @kevinweilthat "The convergence of sports, brands, and culture around the Super Bowl
makes for a particularly fascinating set of tweets to follow." That is why TipTop has taken a similar set of tweet data, analyzed it before and afterSuper Bowl XLIV aired, and brought together the positive and negative sentiment ratings and best tweets directly related to the companies, products and brands which had aired commercials during the big game.
TipTop uses semantic technology to read social media content, much like a human, to extract sentiment and quality ratings from the natural language analysis of tweets.
The impact of events on the public's impression or attitude toward a company or brand can easily be monitored using TipTop search results and sentiment trend charts.
Looking at the TipTop summary results and Sentiment Trends chart for Google's Parisian Love Ad there was a clear increase in both Positive Tip (Green) & Negative piT (Red) sentiment related to Google's brand after the 2010 Super Bowl Commercial was run.
To fully understand the implications of TipTop's semantic technology and linguistic analysis, read David Stodders, article "How Text Analytics Drive Customer Insight". TipTop's results quickly capture and accurately assess
what is being said and felt around any topic as expressed in social
networks. It can then summarize the sentiment around an event before,
after or real-time using trend charts and comparison ratings. Finally
TipTop results can provide specific examples which can be used to understand
the reasons why brand sentiment or product opinions have changed over
time.
What also makes TipTop
unique is that our solution and platform is made available to everyone
in the world free of charge. Many businesses today spend large amounts
of money on comparable services that appear to offer much less than
what we offer for free. Please do not hesitate to contact us directly so that we can also tell you about our premier solutions which can be made available to you for a charge.
Valentine's Day kisses & romantic interludes may await you if you take advantage of all the great Happy Valentine ideas, gifts, activities & people looking for love in TipTop's 2010 Valentine Special.
Search for others on TipTop who are lookng for love, to "be my Valentine" or "want a valentine". Then figure out where to take your sweetheart "for Valentine's Day" by checking out all the Valentine weekend romantic activity ideas TipTop compiled from tweets, semantically analyzed and presented in top 10 lists and links in a concept cloud. Top romantic destinations for Valentine's weekend currently include: New Orleans, Indianapolis, Miami, LA, New York, London, Dallas, Vegas, Chicago and Paris. The popularity of these cities, places and activities will change over the next week as you and others continue to tweet, so make sure you come back often to see the latest Top 10 Romantic Activities and TipTop search results.
Next on the list are Valentine's cards, presents and gifts! TipTop has made it easy for you to find original ideas by browsing the Valentine's Gift Cloud and clicking the links to get more insights and real-time results. If you see what that special someone might like in the Top Valentine's Gift lists, you can simply click on the gift box icon or search on TipTop Shopping to buy whatever you need. As of now, the hot Valentine's presents & gifts include: Dinner, Tickets, Chocolate, Ipad, Flowers, Roses, Candy, Jewelry, Lingerie, and a Box of Chocolates. But these items will change over this next week the more you tweet, Re-Tip and interact with others on TipTop. Of course you can always peruse TipTop search results for Romantic Gifts, Surprise Gifts, Freaky Gifts or Edible Gifts.
President Obama's first year in the White House has been captured in many ways across social media. For example, I picked up a tweet from:civics4slackers with a pictorial year in review Tip,The First Year by Pete Souza. TipTop Technologies also compiled a visual perspective, capturing millions of "Obama" Tip & piT rated tweets over the last few months continuing through the President's State of the Union address. TipTop's Sentiment Trends for President Obama interactive time-line chart not only exposes the overall positive (Tip) and negative (piT) trends, it also displays the top Tip tweets, piT tweets, and Web pages which reflect the sentiment & news on any particular day. You can move the date-line slider below the trend chart to see the Tips, piTs and Web pages for any day to gain insights into why the sentiment gap is the way it is. For example, looking at November 6th (Health Care Reform Bill), Decemer 10th (Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance), & January 28th (State of the Union Address) you can see spikes in both the positive and negative sentiment around President Obama. In
addition, top related concepts are extracted for each day of the trend
data, allowing you to search for corresponding news stories.
The overall "Obama" ratings found in the Sentiment Trends for President Obama chart show how TipTop's semantic analysis of social media text messages are, in this case, much in-line with traditional polling results. For example, pre State of the Union address, the Washington Post News Poll shows approval for President Obama waning and disapproval slowly increasing, similar to TipTop's results above. In the Democracy Corps article, pre and post State of the Union speech polling results for the President show a positive jump of 16 points. TipTop's results show high negative ratings before the speech with a sharp drop-off of negative tweets post speech. Positive Tip tweets spiked quickly after the speech, but over the past week have decreased. Beyond the ability to gain insights into these Sentiment Trends for President Obama, TipTop's semantic trend analysis and summary results creates many opportunites:
Comparatively, TipTop's semantic trend analysis is low cost, automated,
and more reflective of the general population while providing accurate
polling through social media.
We offer the ability to get overall sentiment results as well as high quality accurate summary examples from any social or political angle through
well chosen keyword searches.
You can easily find out what the exact reason is behind the numbers and you can find opinions at finer levels of granularity than any
traditional polling technique could ever uncover.
Questions relevant to
a topic are also learned from the data so that there is no need to ask
a rigid set of questions at the start of a poll. The responses that are measured are spontaneous utterances of the wider
population. They are not influenced in any way such as in the case of
an artificial setup of a poll.
TipTop's polling methodology and approach is vastly superior to all
existing methods. It is cheaper, faster, more comprehensive and more
accurate. What else could anyone want? If you are ready to embrace the
new world of possibilities we have opened up for you, please contact us.
Looking at Google Insights for "Obama" chart, you get trends over time associated with volume of searches. In contrast, with TipTop Technologies's sentiment trend analysis you can also find the "why" around the "now". Its as easy as moving the date-line slider on the Sentiment Trends for President Obama chart or by using TipTop Search every day to get great insights from what people are saying and make relevant discoveries from what they post.
from the address ftt.nu - this is especially useful when you are using smart phones, and highlighted in TipTop's mobile devices blog post. For example, before you shop make sure you're plugged into ftt.nu/shopping to easily get product rating summaries, compare multiple products, and read real product reviews anywhere anytime while on the go.
Whether you are an individual or a business, your TipTop page is an
excellent reflection of you. If your TipTop page is not yet in the
Google index, you are clearly not doing a great job at promoting yourself. This is what you need to do:
If you do not see your TipTop profile on the first page of Google results, search on TipTop for yourself or your business, your twitter ID and
other related concepts. Then, share results on Twitter via TipTop or directly submit the
URL of your TipTop page, (e.g, http://feeltiptop.com/TwitTipTop/) to Google and other major search engines.
Google already indexes hundreds of thousands of high-quality TipTop pages. No matter what your query on Google, TipTop pages are likely to appear in the top few search results. There is a way to increase the chance that you get the TipTop page by adding "tiptop" to your query word. For example, next time you search on Google - we know googling is a habit hard to break - for "justin bieber", you might as well search for "tiptop justin bieber" instead so that you can head straight to TipTop's unmatched page for the teen heartthrob. Got it? Whether you search on Google first or on TipTop directly, you can get the best search experience without having to type your query more than once. Just remember to add the word "tiptop" to your query on Google.
In summary, whatever else you might forget, do not forget "TipTop". TipTop is a magic mantra you need to keep on top of your mind to make both your life and business TipTop.
We hope you enjoyed these cool Tips. Have a TipTop weekend! You knew this was coming.
Businesses are using social media tactics to varying degrees of success according to the B2C vs. B2B research results from MarketingProfs.com. Also, many of Loic Le Meur's (Seesmic CEO) predictions like "Corporations will have entire teams devoted to Twitter and status updates" are already taking form. New roles and additional responsibilities are being created throughout organizations to include both employees and customers in social media engagement beyond just a 'community mangager' position as highlighted well in Amber Naslund's recent article. According to theNEXTWEB, Starbucks has a very strong social media strategy which offers a great way to illustrate how TipTop is being used today to help small and large companies:
quickly evaluate feedback from PR campaigns and messaging through real-time social media sentiment trend analysis,
easily massage real-time brand sentiment through key messaging on Twitter and social media engagement tools like Re-Tip.
1. One way to influence how others see your company's product, service or brand in TipTop search results is to Re-Tip, Retweet or Reply to people's 'Tip tweets' or 'piT tweets'.
2. People supportive of you are then featured as Top People on Twitter indicating that they are experts, influencers or actively engaged with your product, service or brand on Twitter. You can energize these people some more by using the Tip off feature in TipTop.
3.Quickly identify PR problems and opportunities using TipTop's Sentiment Trends chart or reviewing links from Top Pages on the Web. After reviewing the trend chart,
move the slider to get the search results from the corresponding period of time. You can then Filter Tips by specific topics and see Tip tweets and piT tweets and the people associated with the observed shift in sentiment or buzz. You can do this for your own brand and product as well as of those of your competitors.
Large and small companies find it easy to use TipTop to conduct product, brand, and benchmarking research through:
research short term sentiment trends and reactions associated with news about a "Starbucks barista" or promotional campaigns like the "Starbucks Love Project".
In this new year, companies big and small need to be proactive in managing their online personas, marketing campaigns and product sentiment on social media platforms like TipTop. We are here to help you and your business achieve great success this year. Now that you are aware of the rich possibilities, we hope to see your corporate presence emerge stronger on TipTop profile pages like the one for Starbucks which are viewed by tens of thousands of our users each month.
What also makes TipTop unique is that our solution and platform is made available to everyone in the world free of charge. Many businesses today spend large amounts of money on comparable services that appear to offer much less than what we offer for free. Please do not hesitate to contact us directly so that we can also tell you about our premier solutions which can be made available to you for a charge.
Get Real-Time Sentiment Trend Charts Every Time You Search on TipTop
Why do TipTop's Sentiment Trend Charts rock?
Most twitter trending charts only plot the volume of tweets related to a search query over time. While these simple charts about a term's popularity over time are interesting, they don't add any insights into what people are saying, feeling or thinking about the content being tweeted on an aggregate level. This is where TipTop's sentiment-based search results shine.
The TipTop sentiment trend charts are generated real-time and are great for short-term historic views of current topics.
You can quickly see satisfaction levels of customers related to your company, product or service and then filter results by topics to find people's specific concerns or tweets that lay beneath TipTop's sentiment trend analysis.
Easily ascertain attitudes and interests surrounding popular topics, people, places and events through TipTop's opinion mining analysis. Then dig deeper into people's thoughts by reading the best tweets grouped into positive Tips and negative piTs.
For a search on the movie Avatar you can see that at this time enthusiasm is waning with Tip tweets decreasing and piT tweets increasing, a popular topic is it being banned in China, and a related tip that it is a good date movie. TipTop provides tools like "Filter Tips by" to show topics, related the search query, which you can click on to read specific positive Tips or negative piTs messages. For further research, TipTop also presents the most popular Internet links (Websites, articles, photos, video, etc.) that people are posting "Top Pages on the Web" at the moment. TipTop's built-in semantic abilities are powerful, one can even see how people are thinking about the US Economy, but we don't recommend putting all your money in the stock market just yet!
We hope you enjoy using TipTop to help you quickly make discoveries and get the best answers for whatever is on your mind now.
As TipTop Technologies looks forward to the 2010 New Year, we are proud of all the progress we made this year and grateful for all the support from our users and fans during 2009. In 2010, TipTop will continue to bring out the best most relevant products to you through semantics, social media, real-time search, and discovery from large scale data analysis.
There are lots of "Best of 2009" lists, which you can discover via TipTop Search, but today we excited to celebrate the best of real-time search, semantics and the social web through TipTop's recently updated design interface and Related Content features:
The current concepts related to your search keywords. Click the terms to filter the Tip & piT Tweets by concepts.
The best Tweets grouped into positive Tips and negative piTs, ranked by relevancy to your search keywords.
Related content to your search: A) Most relevant people tweeting. B) Overall sentiment about your search keywords. C) Top products related to your search. D) Current & popular web links (websites, news & media).
Over the last few months TipTop has brought semantics, social media, real-time search, and discovery from large scale data analysis together in three "Holiday Specials" revealing unique insights into Halloween 2009, Thanksgiving 2009, and the 2009 Holiday Gift Giving Season.
Finally, the recently launched TipTop Shopping further integrates search, semantics and the social web into a powerful comparison shopping experience. From the press release, Shyam Kapur notes that “Not only as a user do you now get to pick the very best
products that are out there but you also save lots of time and money.”
As a bonus, he joked, “you can also boast afterwards to recipients of
your gifts that their gift is extra special because it was found using
the world’s first semantic, online shopping engine. They will then
appreciate your gift even more!”
For example if you were checking out "Notable Children’s Books of 2009"in the New York Times you could then 1) compare the titles in TipTop Shopping and sort by overall ratings, value for money, and price. In addition to 2) reading the most relevant pro and con consumer reviews for each product attribute in the comparison grid, you can 3) see all the real-time social web buzz and related content to your product search. Of course when you are finished shopping and adding items to your shopping cart, you can "Checkout" and buy the products on Amazon.
For 2010, TipTop Technologies looks forward to bringing its consumer web products to the next level with personalization, comprehensive data processing, and more deep verticals like TipTop Shopping. We welcome you to join us for a revolutionary 2010!
Following on the heals of the TipTop Shopping launch, this 2009 holiday guide offers a number of ways to tap into this years holiday magic:
See the Top 50 gifts people are talking about in 2009.
Click the individual items to see real-timeTipTop Search results.
Mouse over the pie charts to see the percentage of positive, negative and neutral sentiment on Twitter associated with that topic.
If you are interested in buying a gift and would like to compare products across Overall Quality, Features, Safety, Value for Money and Price, you will soon be able to click the TipTop icon next to each gift to experience TipTop Shopping.
Check out the Related Content section to get real-time perspective on gift related conversation topics and related tips people are tweeting from TipTop Search.
Get the skinny on top Travel Destination & Activity plans for the 2009 Holidays and 2010 New Year Celebrations.
Browse through the Travel & Activity Concept Cloud to see the thousands of places people are going and things people are planning to do. Click on the links to discover some great Holiday Travel Tips & piTs, what people think about the various activities, and top related websites via TipTop Search.
Explore the TipTop widget to see what people's plans are, where they are going and what they are doing. See broad topics and specific comments.
Read people's Tips & piTs and spreadsa bit of that real-time social search holiday magic by connecting with other Twitter users. The widget content is dynamic so you can Click, Re-Tip or Retweet a Peep! You can easily add a TipTop widget to your website or blog as well.
How are the Top 10 Holiday Gift and
Activity Lists & Concept Clouds generated?
TipTop’s
advanced semantic engine understands each and every tweet just like a
human being would. As a result, it can discover from within the
tweets exactly what gifts people want or are planning to buy this
holiday season. TipTop's
semantic search algorithm also analyzes the sentiment
around each of these wish list items to extract the positive and
negative things people are saying about them. Once collected, updated periodically and
aggregated across individual tweets, this knowledge is presented n several different ways in TipTop's 2009 Holiday Gift
Guide. We classify the holiday activity and travel related results
into a number of natural categories like top US cities and
international destinations along with where people are planing to
stay and the popular activities planned. Besides frequency for
ranking, a sentiment pie chart is included indicating the percent of
positive Tips, negative piTs and neutral statements associated with
each topic listed. In the concept clouds for gifts and travel
activity related topics, the popularity scores and sentiment
associated with each topic search results set is computed and
reported by estimating the sentiment expressed in each of the
corresponding tweets from Twitter's API feeds. Enjoy the Holidays & Celebrate the New Year!
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.
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.
TipTop Search unwraps two new twitter search widgets to customize for your blog or website. You can choose from five distinct real-time search widgets depending on your website's content and user's needs. For general ideas how to use the widgets, please refer to TipTop's blog post to Customize Content for Your Website or Blog and TipTop's Search Widget Help Screen.
1. To preview the two new widgets look for the "Embed" button.
2. After clicking "Embed" the Widget Wizard window will appear, allowing you to select widget type and customize widget appearance.
TipTop Search is a tool that you want to have at your fingertips every time you are online, regardless of the Web page you are visiting. Using TipTop's real-time social search and semantic engine to help you find the best advice, opinions and people to engage and share experiences with can be done easily by just adding TipTop Search to your browser.
Step 1: Click "Add to Browser".
Step 2: Check box "Start using it right away".
Step 3: Click "Add".
To start using TipTop Search from your browser and from a Web page:
Select TipTop from the list of search engines in the search options menu, usually located at the top right of your browser.
Enter keywords in the search box and search TipTop.
Or, from a Web page highlight some text, right click and select 'Search TipTop for "vampire novels"' for example.
Please note that this feature will work in only the newest versions of
some of the most popular browsers. For additional information please see TipTop's FAQs.
This week TipTop was featured by the search engine industry expert Charles
Knight of AltSearchEngines.com in his “100 Search Engines In 100
Minutes” presentation given on Wednesday, November 18th at the Web
2.0 Expo held in New York.
Charles Knight writes on his site's
blog, “AltSearchEngines launched with a base of 1,000 search
engines and has published almost 4,000 posts since then! (3,892 to be
exact.) Come and see the 100 most creative and innovative search
engines in the world in this rapid fire presentation.” Read more...
Shyam Kapur, President & CEO of
TipTop Technologies, says “We are thrilled about this recognition
within months of launching TipTop Search. It is a great privilege to
be selected from among thousands of search engines and placed
alongside some of the most popular ones in Mr. Knight's presentation.
We have made it to this elite list after having spent in total less
than 1% of the money already spent by some of these other search
engines in their entire lifetime. It truly is a humbling experience.”
We at TipTop are grateful for everyone's support. You can help promote this great news on Yahoo! by Buzzing the story at http://bit.ly/1klvc8 or on Digg at http://digg.com/d31AWus. If you use Facebook, click to become a TipTop fan to easily get TipTop product updates and news.
Try TipTop Search now to check out the new "On the Web" feature, which highlights the top Websites twitter users are posting about what you are looking for. In this example you can see how TopTop search results can help you prepare for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
TipTop Search celebrates Thanksgiving through your activities, festivities, events, foods, plans, recipes, travels and tweets. We invite you to experience the power of feeltiptop.com's real-time semantic social search with this years 2009 Thanksgiving Search Special at http://ftt.nu/thanksgiving.
Following on the heels of the 2009 Halloween Costume Special, TipTop is excited to present TipTop's 2009 Thanksgiving Search Special which reveals now, and will continue to reveal through Thanksgiving weekend, all kinds of insights about what people are really planning to cook for Thanksgiving dinner, what Thanksgiving dishes are becoming popular this year, which desserts people are craving, and what beverages you should stock for your Thanksgiving guests.For a quick look at what all the talk on twitter is about check out the TipTop Search box and click "Pick One Thing", then a randomized Thanksgiving search topic will be generated so you can click "TipTop" to see thefeeltiptop.com/Thanksgiving%20myrtle%20beach/ search results. To see more 2009 Thanksgiving insights, tips and ideas around food and travel, click the "Thanksgiving Food" and "Thanksgiving Travel" tabs below the search box.
The food related Top 10 Lists, popular Thanksgiving recipe and concept cloud food searches reveal that Turkey is still the top meat and sweet potato ranks high as the vegetable of choice. Mac n Cheese and Turduckens seem to be keeping everyone satiated around the middle.For those with twitter IDs, you can Re-Tip and share the Top 10 Lists, favorite recipe searches and more to start experiencing the full power of TipTop Search when used with twitter's communication and publishing platform.
If you are interested in finding insights about everyone's Thanksgiving travel plans and activities, then click on the "Thanksgiving Travel" tab. You will see that New York is the top destination in the US to celebrate Thanksgiving, while Canada and London are the most popular international locations for twitter users this Thanksgiving season. Overall sentiment on twitter, tweets grouped into positive Tips and negative piTs, can be seen by moving a cursor over the 3D cube right of each list topic. For TipTop search results you can click the links in the "Top 10 US Travel Locations" list or popular "Thanksgiving Travel Cloud" below to see why people are talking about Ann Arbor during the Thanksgiving holidays, how they are getting to Dallas, who they are going to see in San Francisco, and what they plan to do in Miami. Need a ride, want to find a cheep flight, need some activity ideas, or want to find someone to spend Thanksgiving with? TipTop's Thanksgiving Travel Cloud has lots of travel related topics to delve into as well as ideas on where to go or stay during the Thanksgiving break.
TipTop Search can help you find the right people, at the right time to help you fulfill your needs, however they change over time, place and head space.
How are the Top 10 Thanksgiving Food & Travel Lists and Concept Clouds generated?
TipTop’s advanced semantic engine understands each and every tweet just
like a human being would. As a result, it can discover from within the
tweets exactly what people's favorite dishes are or what folks are going to prepare for their Thanksgiving meals. TipTop's semantic search algorithm also looks at tweets about where and how people are planning to travel, along with where they will be celebrating this Thanksgiving. Once
collected and aggregated across individual tweets, this knowledge is
presented organized in several different ways in TipTop's 2009 Thanksgiving Search Special page. We classify the food related results into a number of natural categories and
show the top dishes, desserts, drinks along with recipe related searches via epicurious.com and feeltiptop.com. For travel related results we include search categories for top US cities and international travel destinations along with where people are planing to stay during the Thanksgiving holiday, ranked on each items overall
popularity. In the concept clouds for food and travel related topics, the sentiment attached to each topic search results set is computed and
reported by estimating the sentiment expressed in each of the
corresponding tweets from Twitter's API feeds.
TipTop
Technologies, Inc. is an emerging Silicon Valley-based company
founded in summer of 2008 whose first consumer-facing product on the
Internet was launched at http://FeelTipTop.com in June 2009.
Through building some unique and powerful technology at the outset,
TipTop is well-positioned to take up a leadership position in the
growing market of semantic-driven products both in the consumer and
the enterprise space.
Using TipTop Search while logged into your twitter account gives you the best real-time search and social networking experience available. Having a twitter ID allows you complete access to the twitter micro-blogging publishing and communication platform. Its easy to sign up for a twitter account by clicking the image here.
You can then use TipTop Search without having learn all the twitiquette like finding the right people to follow, getting followed by the wrong people, following tired tweetless tweeps, dealing with spam, building twitter lists, and wading through the information overload of tweets. Familiarizing yourself with TipTop's advanced semantic search results, filtering tools and Web content extraction features you will be able to get the most out of real-time information publishing and dynamic social networks. Using TipTop's communication tools like Re-Tip, Retweet, Reply, and Sharing you can express yourself and share content easily on twitter. Think of TipTop as the best platform for getting what you need, when you need it while choosing who and how to engage with others. We encourage you to experiment for yourself to get the best experience and results with TipTop and twitter working in concert. Have fun, like entering your twitter ID as search in TipTop, like TwitTipTop!
Woohoo! New and improved TipTop search results are ready for you! As the impostors take off their Halloween costumes and reveal their true nature, TipTop Search is helping to fashion the upcoming holidays. Make sure you come to www.feeltiptop.com to try out TipTop's new search interface, where the same high quality semantic search results are displayed in an easier layout with better functionality. Below is a glimpse of TipTop's true power revealed for you to discover with each and every search you create.
Real-time search functionality: The Search Timeline was introduced to enable users to view the search results set over time, that is "Days earlier", "Just Prior", "Current", and "Latest". Current is the default setting after the search results are displayed. Latest, will blink in red when a user should move the button to see the most recent results. Current and Just Prior allow users to go back in time, the period of which is dependent on the availability of matching tweets.
Sentiment-based search result sets: Messages or tweets are analyzed and displayed as pro, con or neutral messages grouped into three scrollable modules called Tips, piTs & Remaining Messages. All the existing social search message features and tools are still working great in this new interface. Try and Re-Tip a message for yourself (it is so much cooler than Retweeting:) or read TipTop Search FAQs for more details.
Mobile phone features and tools: The new TipTop search user interface is more compatible with smart phones, so basic site functionality is now available. Also, make sure you try out TipTop via SMS, a quick way to get TipTop's sentiment-based search results through your cell phone. Just dial DOTCOM and enter feeltiptop "search term" get real-time results. See TipTop FAQs for more details.
Related Content: This module highlights additional contextually relevant content analyzed by TipTop, to extract deeper value from the search results sets through sentiment and trend analysis, links to related content on the Web, and advanced search options. Current Related Content features the Search Timeline, the Tip piT Sentiment Pie Chart, On the Web links, and advanced search options. Also, if you are interested in adding related content to your website or blog, TipTop Widgets are available in three flavors, just click to customize.
Search functionality: To get a feel for different ways to search TipTop, check out the "Pick one, Pick Another" cool searches option under the search box. Users can also Filter Results by concepts within the search results set and by categories associated with the search term. Advanced Search operators will also kick in after a user has chosen to "Filter
Results by" and will be included in
TipTop's next update this week. Check out TipTop's FAQs for more details.
Breaking news and trending topics are one of the things which makes Twitter so powerful as a real-time distribution platform. It also encourages full participation of the community, which can create a lot of information overload, data noise, spam and frustration from users looking for something in particular. I noticed this frustration yesterday in people's tweets as the Fort Hood shooting story broke. Adam Ostrow noted in the article, Fort Hood Shootings: News Orgs Put Twitter Lists to the Test, "that we’re seeing news organizations that compete vigorously for breaking news turning to real-time curation to help tell the story."
In this case, news organizations were turning to Twitter Lists to manually compile various real-time streams from twitter users. As the news broke I turned to TipTop Search as a better solution to figure out what was going on by (1) searching "Fort Hood", then by (2) looking next to "Filter Results by:", I clicked "shooting" to (3) peruse only the Tip, piT and Other tweet recent messages containing Fort Hood+Shooting. Then I used (4) advanced search options (found in the Related Content section) "Want more such results? Search for Fort Hood shootingor onlyshooting" to expand the results. By the time I had (5) expanded urls and read articles, I found in the "Top tweets", "piT tweets" and "Other tweets" search results sections, #FortHood and #fthood were all trending topics on twitter. I started (6) sharing by "Re-Tiping" and "Retweeting" good articles and messages people and news organizations were posting which then appeared as highlighted Re-Tips in a yellow frame when I (7) moved the TipTop Search Timeline Sliderto the blinking red "Lastest" mode.
Simply by understanding how TipTop's semantic search results are grouped into Tips and piTs, using the results filtering features, advanced search options, and utilizing the real-time search timeline I was able to quickly get results for what i was looking for, see the public sentiment about the news topic through the Pie Chart, and share my findings and tips with others by Re-Tipping and Retweeting the most informative or insightful messages concerning, for example, Major Malik Nadal Hasan. Remember the next time breaking news is happening, TipTop Search is the best place to get the whole story quickly and insightfully.
Halloween costume ideas, tips and tweets for this 2009 Halloween season are abound and trending on Twitter, search engines and social networks. If you don't already have a Halloween costume idea or if you want to see how your costume compares to others, you have come to the right place. With the TipTop spirit of making tasks easier, providing the right information at the right time, and enabling communication when needed, TipTop's semantic search engine has compiled over 4000 Halloween costume ideas from people on Twitter who have been sharing, commenting, selling, buying, making and talking about all things related to dressing up, celebrating and having fun during these 2009 Halloween festivities. TipTop has analyzed millions of messages to come up with five Top 10 Halloween Costume Lists. Go to TipTop's 2009 Halloween Special to see the results for the Top 10 Popular Costumes, Top 10 Celebrity Costumes, Top 10 Character Costumes, Top 10 Creature Costumes & Top 10 Object Costumes.
If you don't see what you are looking for in TipTop's 2009 Halloween Costumes lists or by browsing through the thousands of Halloween Costume Cloud entries you can easily enter a search for any costume in the TipTop Search box. If you want some Halloween costume search suggestions, click "Pick One Costume" below the search box and "TipTop" the search term.
How are the Top 10 Costume Lists and Costume Clouds generated?
TipTop’s advanced semantic engine understands each and every tweet just like a human being would. As a result, it can discover from within the tweets exactly who is planning to wear what costume this Halloween. Once collected and aggregated across individual tweets, this knowledge is presented organized in several different ways in TipTop's 2009 Halloween Special page. We classify the costumes into a number of natural categories and show the top costumes within each category based on the overall popularity. The sentiment attached to each costume is computed and reported by estimating the sentiment expressed in each of the corresponding tweets from Twitter's API feeds.
TipTop Technologies, Inc. is an emerging Silicon Valley-based company founded in summer of 2008 whose first consumer-facing product on the Internet was launched at http://FeelTipTop.com in June 2009. Through building some unique and powerful technology at the outset, TipTop is well-positioned to take up a leadership position in the growing market of semantic-driven products both in the consumer and the enterprise space.
Time flies, environment changes, and so should your online social networks. The experience of limited contacts, useless information flow, closed networks, and meaningless connections are walls that are easy to come across, but difficult to scale using most social networks. Obviously most networks are only as useful as the people who use them or don't use them after a week.
TipTop thinks about people, social networks, and information flow a bit differently. We believe social networks are dynamic organisms, through which your connections evolve as your needs change. Those that influence you and visa versa, change based upon the expression of your and others' desires, interests, activities, or experiences over time. Like in real life, we are successful if we see the right sign at the right time. Whether or not you believe that astrological signs or blood types determine peoples personalities, there are many ways to get in touch with people who can fulfill your needs using TipTip. Here are some tips for looking at peeps using TipTop:
People with positive tweets appear under the Tips column. People with negative statements appear under the piTs column. People with factual messages appear under Related Messages. Look for links to "To" or "From" to see corresponding messages. Mouse-over the images for profile information.
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. See our FAQs.
If you are looking for activity partners to go to a "haunted house" or experts to help make one, just search who is tweeting about it and connect with them using TipTop's message Re-Tip, Retweet or Reply options as described in our FAQs.
TipTop is still a baby, so look forward to new user interfaces, an even better search experience, and more useful tools for you to grasp the power of real-time semantic search results and your dynamic social network. We encourage you to be a part of the search revolution by using TipTop Search and providing TipTop feedback.
Get TipTopSM search results on-the-go by using SMStext messaging on your mobile or cell phone. Use TipTopSM
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
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.
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