I’ve just learned that the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has started a project to enhance detection of earthquakes using Twitter! The project is called U.S. Geological Survey Twitter Earthquake Detector (USGSTed). The web site is http://recovery.doi.gov/press/us-geological-survey-twitter-earthquake-detector-ted/, and the Twitter feed is @USGSted.
According to the site, “Social Internet technologies are providing the general public with [...]
I’ve just been informed that the Social Fresh Portland conference is filling up rapidly. There are only 300 seats, and over 100 of them are taken already. And the price goes up tomorrow! So, if you’re planning to come to the conference, whether you’re here in Portland or from somewhere else, head on over to [...]
In response to yesterday’s earthquake in Chile, the good folks at EPIC Colorado have adapted their Tweak-the-Tweet syntax to both English and Spanish.
“Project EPIC has created a set of prescriptive tweets using the Tweak the Tweet syntax for the Chile earthquake. You can find both the English and Spanish versions of these tweets in this [...]
As you can see over to the left, I’m volunteering at Social Fresh Portland. And I’d like to invite those of you outside of the Portland area to join me! As the web site says, “Social Fresh Portland (Oregon) is a social media conference for marketers. We focus on case studies and what social [...]
Yesterday, Evan Weaver tweeted “Twitter open source page is live! http://twitter.com/about/opensource”. This page is a fascinating peek under Twitter’s hood – the cutting edge open source technologies that power the popular microblogging service. For those of us who work with Twitter, this is required reading for career management and lifelong learning. And for those of [...]