The W3C Social Web Incubator Group, a working group started in April 2009, has released its final report. The aim of the group has been to get an overview of social media standards existing on the market and to work on recommendations towards standardization. The conclusion of the group is the recommendation to provide further [...]
Twitter is selling data to Gnip, a social media data aggregator and marketplace. The deal announced at the Defrag Conference is that Gnip gets the social data stream produced by Twitter and will sell it in packages of 50 % or 5 % of tweets to third parties to deploy the data for market research [...]
Reading an article about new features of SmartRealm, a provider of social media and sentiment analytics, introducing a new api, which is an interesting feature itself, I came across another interesting fact. SmartRealm has developed a markup language to describe social networks at all and networking activities within such networks. This markup language is called [...]
