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Australia Votes in Close 2010 Elections: Use TipTop, Not the Psychic Croc for Predictions

The federal election campaign in Australia has reached its final days with the governing Labor Party & opposition Coalition Party neck and neck. Today a psychic saltwater crocodile picked Labor Party leader Julia Gillard to be elected Prime Minister by gobbling a chicken hanging from her head shot (more from the National Post). TipTop's social media sentiment predictions are a bit more refined and still show the candidates running head-to-head, except in Perth where the Coalition leader Tony Abbott was lagging. 

Using TipTop to follow the Australian vote is easy. You can get parliamentary election discussions broken down into browsable topics & positive and negative snippets by searching #ausvotes. To see what the important issues are for Australian voters from ABC's Australia Votes 2010 twitter thread, view TipTop's results for #myvote to see more than just streaming tweets. From this real-time social search perspective you can see changing sentiment trends, hot topics & the tips to show you what people are thinking about regarding the issues, candidates, and the overall election.

Elections are local events, so today on TipTop's hub page at http://FeelTipTop.com we feature social media polling results for both candidates for Prime Minister in key cities across Australia - the day before Saturday's election outcome.  Below are cities for which we got Julia Gillard & Tony Abbott sentiments' results by entering the candidates name into the TipTop search box and selecting the city from the "Any place" pull-down menu. Click on the links below to see the latest results for either candidate. At the time of this snapshot, TipTop's polling results show:

• Adelaide voters saw Julia Gillard with 30% positive & 13% negative sentiment. For latest results go to http://ftt.nu/fxDgj. Sentiment results for Tony Abbott were 33% positive & 22% negative. For the latest results go to http://ftt.nu/mHYZa.

• People in Brisbane wrote about Gillard positively 23% & negatively 21% of the time at http://ftt.nu/EJ8i7 & Tony Abbott 24%:) & 27%:( @ http://ftt.nu/w73SX.
• Melbourne voters think Gillard is 27%:) 22%:( @ http://ftt.nu/ijrOX & Abbott is 27%:) 14%:( @ http://ftt.nu/43ksj.
• Social media pundits in Perth voters see Gillard as 24%:) & 18%:( @ http://ftt.nu/NhKB6 -- Abbot as 12%:) & 18%:( @ http://ftt.nu/xwIh2.
• TipTop polls show Sydney voters see Gillard as 24%:) & 20%:( @ http://ftt.nu/Tt1Kw. Abbott is 25%:) & 11%:( @ http://ftt.nu/j5Cgx

Check out the Australia 2010 election page & you will see the outcome on TipTop for the latest trends, topics & tips.

Remember http://FeelTipTop.com whenever you are looking for any kind of tips locally or globally.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com Why? Because life happens in real time!

Julia Gillard

 

President Obama's Approval Ratings Spike: Get Perspectives Across the US with TipTop

This week onwards you can use TipTop, the Insight Engine, to get the best tips, perspectives and personal connections from specific locations all around the world. The ability to get the best tips about local activities, haunts, businesses & news is as easy as entering a query in the search box on FeelTipTop.com & selecting a specific location from the adjacent "Any place" drop-down menu. There are many ways to make use of TipTop's local social search such as geo-location marketing, asking local experts, discovering new restaurants, or learning how people feel about any local or global issue. Today, I noticed a positive sentiment spike to 56% in TipTop's In-depth coverage of "President Obama Approval Ratings", so I took a TipTop snapshot of the political pulse around President Obama across the country. You can learn more about TipTop's social media polling, daily sentiment trend summaries & benchmarking of these results in one of our earlier blog posts. From cities around the US & overseas, these are some insights TipTop extracted from your tweets:

• TipTop's Atlanta "Obama" sentiment trends at the time of this search were 22% positive & 20% negative and the concept cloud topics included 'news, gm, man, home, star, people, & speech'. Gregomyleggo shared these results on Twitter by selecting "Sentiment Trends" from the top right "I Like" button.
• TipTop's Austin "Obama" results had similar sentiment ratings to those for Atlanta. Of course, the topics were different, focusing on concepts like 'oil, admin, american, senate & snooty'. Gregomyleggo saw a provoking snippet, so he clicked "Reply" to send a tweet to the poster.         

• TipTop's Boston "Obama" results showed people not thinking too highly of the President, tweeting negatively 17% of the time about topics corresponding to "Obama" & 'people, admin, gm, blackberry, tv & headset'. Gregomyleggo thought a couple of the "Top Pages on the Web" TipTop extracted from these Bostonians were interesting enough to share on Twitter (by selecting the option from the "I Like" button).

• Chicago & Los Angeles pundits shared few opinions let alone similar sentiment toward the President. We should look more into how these folks thought about his appearance on "The View"!
  
• Both San Francisco & Seattle are clearly on the left coast as judged by the  Tips & piTs corresponding to those cities. While looking at the view from Washington, we see much more excitement about Michelle Obama at Good Stuff Eatery than about the real issues ;)
  
  
  

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  For a somewhat more international perspective, I took a look at TipTop results for Toronto & London. Tiptop found they are also tweeting about "The View" but their take on President Obama is quite different. Toronto tweets are 27% positive, focusing on topics such as auto, detroit, worker, michigan & car. London tweets are slightly more negative, trash talking the President 18% of the time ... mostly about "The View", healthcare & his blackberry.  
   

Generally, TipTop's social media polling trends spike before the "Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval Poll" so keep an eye there and compare it to TipTop's "President Obama Approval Ratings"!

Remember http://FeelTipTop.com whenever you are looking for any kind of tips around town. Also, please send us your feedback so we can improve our local results to make your & others' life experiences more & more TipTop.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com Why? Because life happens in real time!

 

  

Organizing Social Search & Matching Tips with My TipTop

Our previous blog post presented an outline of the bookmarking & social matching features and capabilities of our query personalization tool My TipTop. The significance of users' being able to save relevant answers to their questions (as well as the questions themselves, so that new matching answers can be easily found) was not lost on Zaino whose article looks at search in the Question & Answer sense as a shared community experience:

"The idea behind My TipTop is that users can match top-of-mind queries at FeelTipTop.com with snippets from others – Tips (positive comments), piTs (caveat emptor-type stuff) or Neither (neutral) – in a “call and response” fashion, and then share these as selected searches, as selected tips and piTs via email, or to match people's tips and tops through Twitter."

In this post, we show you a real example of how I used "My TipTop" to find the perfect baby stroller for our little girl. In this case, My TipTop was primarily used as a workspace to save tweets & queries from multiple TipTop search results pages. Positive (Tip) & negative (piT) product review tweets were saved about specific strollers queried. Neutral tweets were saved containing links to "how to choose" a baby stroller for example. Product queries like "instep jogging" were also saved to compare consumer sentiment ratings across brands. Tip: Look for the "Add to My TipTop" icon to store specific tweets or the query itself to My TipTop when using TipTop search.

While using "My TipTop" for finding which baby stroller was most compatible with our active lifestyle, baby's needs and family budget I was able to:

1. compile a lot of real-time product reviews from a multiple search results pages,
2. identify specific strollers, search TipTop and save the queries as  topics to compare ratings, get related concepts & the latest tweets,
3. complete the circle by helping others by sharing my findings & matching one person's Tip to another's Top.

Once all the legwork was done searching on TipTop, adding items to My TipTop, and comparing results the stroller solution presented itself: Jeep Sport, Contours Stroller or the Instep Stroller. Although not yet integrated with My TipTop, TipTop Shopping's unique product review summaries & rating scores helped me finalize a purchasing decision by comparing these strollers across quality, price & safety ratings.

It is, of course, TipTop's semantic technology that makes it possible for individual consumers to mine the community's knowledge (and willingness to share it) in a useful as well as timely manner, like when a particular question for which others may have useful tips is top-most in their mind. Making the deluge of unstructured data, like real-time tweets, meaningful to individuals is what TipTop's Insight Engine is all about. The article "Opinion gathering: making sense of unstructured data", illustrates the current search dilemma:

"Instead of a few random web pages with some information on the product embedded in them, we prefer the output to be packed with purchase advices from customer reviews. This will enable us to leverage on the experience of the people who bought this product in the past. So, we need a search service that understands the semantics of a web page- not the one that simply churns out a set of web page links." J. Murali, The Hindu

Life happens real-time & TipTop's results intrinsically reflect that dynamic nature. TipTop's semantic sauce takes care of finding the best Tips around any current topic or "Top" people enter into the Insight Engine. Two additional components for finding the best Tips for what is on the Top of your mind are being able to bookmark searches (Tops) & snippets (Tips) and the ability to match one person's Tip with another's Top. This is where the My TipTop tool helps you organize your real-time search experience through the ability to add snippets of information (tweets), tagged to search topics, into My TipTop.

Using the My TipTop tool allows users to easily store and compare similar or disparate real-time tweet content by sentiment type, search topics & time in the "Selected Tips & piTs" section. Your searches (Tops) can also be saved, compared, results updated & related topics displayed in My TipTop's "Selected Queries" section as well. In addition you can take action on your research & help others by matching their questions (Tops) with answers (Tips) you have found in the "Tips & Tops for Matching" section.

The My TipTop tool & interface was created as a first step in alleviating the frustration of not being able to capture, compare & match dynamically changing real-time content. Please send us your feedback so we can improve "My TipTop" and stay tuned in for many more enhancements & functionality to make your & others' life experiences more TipTop.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com - because life happens in real time!

My TipTop, SemTech 2010 & the Innovate!100 Pitch Slam

Woohoo! Thanks to all the TipTop fans voting for TipTop Technologies, Inc. in Vator.tv's SemTech Startup contest, we are excited to be chosen as a semi-finalist in Vator.tv's Innovate! 2010 competition at the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference  located in the Hilton San Francisco, June 23rd-25th, 2010. You can learn more about TipTop & meet some team members at our table in the "Start Up Alley" section on the exhibit floor on Wednesday & Thursday. TipTop founder, Shyam Kapur will participate in a “Pitch Slam” at the SemTech conference with seven other semi-finalists Thursday, June 24 from 3:30 - 5:45, for a chance to become a finalist in the Innovate!100 Pitch Slam for top startup companies. Don't forget to drop by our booth and participate in the Persona Predictor semantic game and get daily 2010 SemTech Conference sentiment trends & social media highlights at TipTop's #SemTech 2010 Daily Trends & Snippets conference coverage page.

Also, this month TipTop is celebrating its first year anniversary of the birth of its social search & insight engine FeelTipTop.com and we are excited to announce the launch of "My TipTop"at this time. My TipTop will become a core component of TipTop's vision enabling users to bring any Web content, analyzed through TipTop's semantic engine, under their control in manageable snippets. Anyone can use My TipTop by searching on FeelTipTop.com  & then adding snippets,  with people & search content to compare topics, bookmark results and match people's questions (Tops) with others' answers (Tips).

For example, use My TipTop to help make the most of your SemTech 2010 conference experience on or offline:

1. Try some queries on TipTop, like "semtech", "semtech2010" or "semantic conference".
2. While browsing TipTop results, Add useful Tips, piTs or Neither snippets to My TipTop for yourself, a friend or an attendee.
3. To add companies participating in the SemTech 2010 conference, to compare in My TipTop's "Selected Queries" section enter the company name in the search box and then click in the search results title bar. You can see the last three "Selected Queries" in the left column My TipTop module.
4. Look for "My TipTop" on the left side of the search results page and click "See all" to go to My TipTop. There, you can sort, browse your "Selected Tips & piTs" and take action.
5. Once on My TipTop, looking at (A) "Selected Tips & piTs" you can add search topics to (B) "Selected Queries" or (C) Add snippets to match people's questions (Add to Tops) with other's answers (Add to Tips).
6. Besides taking (A) the Actions above, you can (B) Sort, (C) Search & (D) View Top Tips & piTs via My TipTop to help compare items & see more details.
7. Share your (A) Selected Searches & (B) Selected Tips & piTs via Email or (C) Match people's Tips & Tops through twitter.

  Let @twitTipTop know how you like My TipTop & make sure you follow the social media buzz for the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference. If you go, please stop by TipTop's table along the Startup Alley & remember to enter your twitter ID in our Persona Predictor game.

Have a TipTop Father's Day weekend!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Week in Review: TipTop Perspectives

This week TipTop is participating in Vator.tv's SemTech Startup competition, "identifying the best-of-breed startups in the Semantic Technology, Semantic Web space". TipTop's Insight engine constantly features the best-of-breed results for any current topic. Each day this week, TipTop's hub has featured a variety of trendy & public interest topics highlighting some great Tips and unique perspectives from twitter users. These Top Tips & TipTop use cases can be found at TipTop's Insight Archive.

Just as the world around us is constantly changing, TipTop's results reflect the ever changing dynamics of people's opinions, new discoveries & solutions to complex problems. For example:

• Kites, real-time movie reviews: See why people think of "Kites movie" as 43% Tips & 8% piTs on TipTop http://ftt.nu/PjheO. Share TipTop results like this by clicking

• Lost finale, perplexed TV fans share their thoughts as TipTop captures them:

•   As the 1st Round of the French Open kicked off, TipTop's results captured tennis fan's winning predictions & off court whispers. TipTop's results are real-time, so come back often to see a topics trends & get search tips as well.  

 

• BP's "Top Kill" solution to the Gulf Coast oil spill generated a lot of buzz this week, however it did not drive many to have favorable opinions towards Toyota & the Prius, as the social media sentiment trends showed this week. Regardless of President Obama's involvement, his approval ratings have stayed stable, like his demeanor, over the past week, so use TipTop's In-depth coverage to see a summary of what was happening each day to affect the slight changes to his presidential ratings. As you can see, people voices many thoughts about the "BP oil spill" disaster as well as sharing a lot of Web pages.

• After an eventful week, we are glad Memorial Day Weekend is fast approaching, so don't forget to use TipTop to find great BBQ recipes, events & parades in your neck of the woods, and ways to remember our veterans.

If you think TipTop rocks the semantic world, please take a moment and vote for TipTop Technologies on Vator.tv.

Have a TipTop weekend!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Corporate Sentiment, Company Stock Tickers & Social Media Converge in TipTop Finance

Recently launched TipTop Finance lets you explore who is bullish, bearish or neutral & why for the financial markets and any publicly traded company. Our new site integrates quarterly corporate earnings calendars, daily company reporting lists & finance-specific social media search results. TipTop Finance is the only place you can get pre-call and post earnings public company sentiment trends year round with social search results specific to the financial industry. As noted in a previous blog post, "TipTop's sentiment analysis of real-time tweets is a leading indicator, often predicting correctly the rise and fall in sentiment around topics such as President Obama approval ratings when measured in more traditional ways." (Read more from "TipTop's Presidential Ratings, Social Sentiment & Financial Indicators").

From the TipTop Finance hub page users can:

• Use the Quarterly Earnings Calendar to select specific dates for company earnings reports, view reporting company's sentiment trend charts, and click a company's ticker symbol to see TipTop finance search results.

• The TipTop Finance search results pages works the same as the regular TipTop search results, only now there is the ability to toggle between regular social search results and finance specific content.

TipTop now allows users to seamlessly move back and forth between finance-specific search and regular TipTop social search results pages for any query. Users can turn on & off the finance filter for their query simply by clicking the "TipTop Finance" button top right of the search results page title. Compare the results below for "Wal-Mart", where you have the same TipTop layout & functionality in addition to content specific to finance.

  

May your blue-chips be rising, technology stars be shining & hyperbolic stocks be shorted;)

Off the TipTop charts,

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Overview of several new features in TipTop

Today, we launched TipTop Finance, a must-visit web site for anyone who follows the business prospects of public companies year round. We will tell you more about that site in one of our future posts. We are also excited to announce several new features in addition to the friendlier layout in our search results page:

• After you type just a few letters in the search box, real-time query suggestions now start to appear. Through analysis of a variety of relevant data, we try to anticipate the most likely user needs at that time.
• In the first column, we now offer suggestions as to how your query can be modified to get even more focused results. These suggestions are also derived in real-time. For example, for the query "sharks" in the context of the NHL playoffs, the suggestions might be a query involving the terms "game", "san jose" and "hockey" in addition to "sharks".
• In addition to our widely used "I Like", "Retweet" and "Reply" buttons, we now offer a "Forward" button that you can use to forward easily any interesting tweet to few specific persons.

These new features make TipTop even more powerful. No matter what your need, you can now very likely find its fulfillment at TipTop. Should you ever forget that the TipTop site is at http://FeelTipTop.com, you can go to your favorite search engine like Google and search for TipTop to get back to us easily. You can also search within these search engines for TipTop pages by prefixing your query with the word tiptop. For example, the query "tiptop bieber" on Google will get you to a page with a link to the TipTop page for "Justin Bieber". When you search on Google, you can alternatively use their "I Feel Lucky" button rather than the Search button to come straight to the right page on TipTop. As long as, one way or another, you find your way to TipTop, you can easily get the very best tips round the clock from us.

Shyam Kapur & the TipTop team

Its Simple, Shop with "My TipTop Space" to Compare Products & Make Great Decisions

TipTop, the Insight Engine, now offers a brand-new way for consumers to comparison shop & make purchasing decisions online or in-store. TipTop's one-of-a-kind semantic social search engine continues to analyze user-generated product reviews from Amazon.com and provide TipTop product ratings & percentile scores exclusively from these reviews across a variety of attributes (Read more...).

TipTop's shopping experience goes way beyond just comparing product prices like other comparison shopping sites. Now with TipTop Shopping, all experiences lead to "My TipTop Space" to help you quickly decide what products or gifts will meet your needs! For example, search for a Personal Care product like "razor" and quickly review the short product summary results. Click "Add to My Space" all the items on the page you wish to compare in greater detail. You can then, continue clicking through additional product result pages, enter another product search, or click "Go to My Space" to start comparing items with TipTop's unique product rating scores & sort items across a variety of product attributes like Quality, Value & Features in addition to Price.

With "My TipTop Space" you can:

• Quickly compare multiple products, ratings & prices before you buy.
• Easily organize your shopping list in one place & make informed decisions.
• Get relevant product reviews & real-time tips from real consumers all on one page.

Enjoy using the new "My TipTop Space" for making quick & easy online comparison shopping decisions and buying the best products for your needs with Amazon.com's selection of books, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes, jewelry,  beauty & personal care, gourmet food & just about anything else. 

At TipTop Technologies, we use natural language analysis and sentiment extraction so that we can truly build the future of search & the semantic Web.  For feedback or inquiries please contact us.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

   

TipTop In-Depth Coverage: Health Care, IPad, Prius, Tiger Woods & Toyota

TipTop In-Depth Coverage pages illustrate how TipTop's semantic technology can extract insights from social media, measure topical sentiment trends & aggregate real-time Web content in a meaningful way based upon people's natural language expression found in tweets and social networking platforms like Twitter. TipTop's sentiment charts measure trends effectively and accurately for any current topic, subject or event (See Sentiment, Social Media & Twitter Trends). TipTop also provides Tips, piTs & Top Web pages to help you determine why the positive or negative sentiment was the way it was at any moment in time. TopTop's In-Depth Coverage can now be built easily across any number of different topic areas:

• Predicting Event Outcomes: Tweeting to Victory, Crowdsourcing to Predict the 82nd Academy Award Oscar Winners 
• Gaging Political Opinion: TipTop's Presidential Ratings, Social Sentiment & Financial Indicators
• Assessing Marketing Effectiveness: 2010 Super Bowl XLIV Commercials: TipTop's SB44 Ad Ratings
• Managing Brand and Online Personas: Managing Corporate Personas, Product Branding & Market Trends in Social Media
• Identifying & Summarizing Moments in Time: Tweeting for the Gold: Social Media & the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Please enjoy TipTop's latest In-Depth Coverage by clicking on the following topics below: Health Care, IPad, NCAA, President Obama, Prius, Tiger Woods & Toyota.

 TipTop's semantic trend analysis, satisfaction ratings & summary results creates many opportunities for a variety of stakeholders:

• Comparatively, TipTop's semantic trend analysis is low cost, automated, and more reflective of the general population while providing accurate polling through social media.
• We offer the ability to get overall sentiment results as well as high quality accurate summary examples from any social or political angle through well chosen keyword searches. 
• You can easily find out what the exact reason is behind the numbers and you can find opinions at finer levels of granularity than any traditional polling technique could ever uncover.
• Questions relevant to a topic are also learned from the data so that there is no need to ask a rigid set of questions at the start of a poll. The responses that are measured are spontaneous utterances of the wider population.  They are not influenced in any way such as in the case of an artificial setup of a traditional poll.

At TipTop Technologies, we use natural language analysis, sentiment trend methodology and summary knowledge extraction that is vastly superior to all existing approaches so that we can truly build the future of search & the semantic Web. It is less costly, faster, more comprehensive and more accurate. What else could anyone want? If you are ready to embrace the new world of possibilities we have opened up for you, please contact us.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Social Media's Countdown to NCAA Basketball's Final Four via TipTop

TipTop's March Madness Coverage of the  2010 NCAA Basketball Championships illustrates how semantic technology can easily extract insights, measure sentiment trends & aggregate real-time content in a meaningful way based upon people's natural language expression found in tweets and social media platforms like twitter.

Using TipTop results to follow hashtags on twitter like #marchmadness or #ncaa tournament is a fun & efficient way to keep up with the latest commentary, opinions & websites people are tweeting about. In TipTop's In-Depth Coverage for March Madness, we present a deeper level of natural language analysis on the aggregate level through the NCAA Basketball Sentiment Trend chart and summary presentation below.

• Mouse-over the trend chart to see daily Tip & piT scores for NCAA tweets.
• Click the daily search topics TipTop extracted related to the NCAA over time.
• Read the top Tips & piTs for the day, as well as see the top Web pages people were tweeting about.

Using TipTop results to follow how your favorite men's college basketball picks are doing or see what your NCAA bracket standings are is easy via TipTop's NCAA Tourney Bracket Standings page.

• Get a quick summary preview of people's opinions about the remaining Sweet 16 teams by mousing over the pie charts.
• Betting your odds, come back for the Elite 8 winners, and click on the the college teams for TipTop search results.
• How are your teams' bracket standings going into the Final Four? Remember, TipTop is the best place to follow your teams & get top quality results.

Trend analysis of real-time social media as a predictive indicator is an active area of research at TipTop Technologies, and we look forward to presenting more insights  into the relationship of sentiment trends and financial markets, consumer shopping patterns & election results like presented in our predictions for the 2010 Academy Award Winners or social media Sentiment Trends for President Obama.

Stay tuned!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team