Reposted from Dries Buytaert, another NowPublic advisor:
NowPublic has launched an interesting new feature called Scan. First, they aggregate data from sites like Twitter, identi.ca and Pownce
in near real-time. Then they aggregate the information, filter it by
keywords, geo-locate it, and conveniently present it on a dashboard.
Like that, you can see what is happening in different places around the
world.Being the sucker for statistics that I am, I asked Michael Meyers (CTO, NowPublic) to setup a special NowPublic Drupal Channel so that we can have our very own NowPublic Drupal Scan. Michael did, so check out the Drupal Scan at http://www.nowpublic.com/tags/drupal/scan. It is a great showcase of what can be done with activity streams or lifestreams, and with Twitter data [specifically].
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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