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Get Twitter RSS feeds with these one click bookmarklets

Piers Dillon Scott7 years ago

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Get any user's Twitter RSS feed or a Twitter search term's RSS feed using these browser bookmarklets.

Social Media

Twitter RSS feed generator

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Use our Twitter RSS generator to create RSS feeds for Twitter users, Twitter lists, and Twitter search.

Social Media

Here’s how to create an RSS feed of a Twitter List

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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It is easier than you might think to generate an RSS feed for a Twitter list. Here's how to do it

Business

MediaSift brings realtime sentiment and text analysis to Twitter search

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Under MediaSift’s DataSift brand the freemium service will allow users to search and filter Twitter’s full firehose of content according to over 40 pieces of metadata contained in each tweet. The company will also aggregate and analyse Twitter content according to user sentiment, user influence, reach and text analysis.

Web

How to get the latest news on the Chile mine rescue

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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In a story that was almost designed to compliment the always on, 24 hour, digital newscycle web news organisations have turned to live blogging to report the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners.

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

According to 99 firms, 293.6 billion emails are sent every day. That figure probably doesn’t surprise you given the number of emails sitting in your inbox, hundreds if not thousands… Right? But among these emails are numerous malicious emails, designed to trick, scam and hack.

These emails are known as phishing emails, which in its simplest form can be described as a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

But there is good news, as we now have a guardian angel ready to look out for us. My guest today is the president and founder of Pixm, a company that provides real-time anti-phishing on log-in pages and shuts down an attack at the point of click, Arun Buduri.

And for our Neuron to Something piece, where we discuss a story relating to psychology and technology, we will look at a recent Pew Research Center survey, analyzing Americans’ feelings and perceptions relating to data collection.

Video from Buduri: Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’