Kevin Rose and 4chan’s Chris Poole join Dublin Web Summit lineup
Well-known serial internet entrepreneur Kevin Rose and 4chan founder Chris Poole have both joined this October's Dublin Web Summit lineup.
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MediaSift brings realtime sentiment and text analysis to Twitter search
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.
SME and social media, for hits StumbleUpon is good but Facebook is better
Statistics, it is said, are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Earlier this month TNW reported, quoting Statcounter Global stats, that StumbleUpon had surpassed Facebook in the US as the site that created the most social media referrers. The article also reported it was the second most popular traffic-generating site globally after Facebook.
iPad 2 to launch within weeks
According to Digg founder Kevin Rose the iPad 2 will launch within weeks, and possible as soon as February 1st.
