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Wishing you a TipTop Thanksgiving

tiptoptechnologies — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:41:03 +0000

Turkey season is here and we are thankful to all the wonderful people who are discussing and sharing all manner of Thanksgiving plans and recipes on the web. TipTop’s Thanksgiving Special for 2011 has mined thousands of these conversations and brings them to you in our cool new interface.

Neatly arranged on the left you will find Top food and recipe ideas, Top travel plans and destinations and Top activities.

What makes these Top items is simply that they have been favorite talking points for people in the last couple of weeks in their online Thanksgiving conversations.

When you click on any Top item in a tab on the left, the spaces on the right fill up with fresh Thanksgiving insights on that topic, nicely organized and tabulated to fulfill any objective you may have — from watching videos and viewing pictures, to getting a quick summary, to leisurely browsing among good or avoidable ideas.

Every day is full of surprises, and TipTop’s new interface (borrowed from our main site) makes tip-browsing and discovery a pleasure. Would you have guessed that so many people have Ramen noodles plans this Thanksgiving?

You can share any Tip or Top you like on Twitter or by email, and if there is something on your mind that’s missing from our Top lists, well, you can just type it into the Input tab and see the buzz on it right away. Who knows, your query may soon graduate to a Top item!

If you are short on ideas this Thanksgiving, or just want to feel the bonhomie out there, visit TipTop and be thankful for how much and freely others share with us.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families from all of us at TipTop!

Spirits roam free this Halloween

tiptoptechnologies — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:08:27 +0000

Our mining of last month’s tweets seems to show that free spirits are not just occupying Wall Street this fall season, but also plotting the usual ways to scare more pliant victims into coughing up some real candy.

Indeed, some people have such wonderful ideas for their costumes, it’s a shame others don’t get to see more of them. As usual, this year we have collected, analyzed, filtered and categorized thousands of conversations about Halloween costumes that you can explore and share to your heart’s content.

You will find people dressing themselves (and their friends, kids, and friends’ kids) up as Celebrities, weird and not-so-weird Creatures, Animals, Fictional characters and more.

We hope you will also like the new tabbed interface (borrowed from our new-look main page) which allows us to pack in a lot more into the same space, but gives you more control over how you browse.

So with two clicks, I can see one of my favorites from different “angles”, and am pleased to report that while Steve Jobs is no more, his spirit is not only immortal but very popular (and mostly happy!)

Steve Jobs Halloween spirit

Even tried-and-trusted favorites like the pumpkin and the witch continue to surprise and delight. For example, here is a one-year old Handpicked tip that I discovered, with step-by-step pictures on how to make a paper witch cut-out.

Halloween witchcraft

I immediately felt like sharing the link, and did: my own girls delight in more grown-up witchcraft now, but I hope some other little girls or their parents out there will find the tip fun to try.

Whether you are young or old, whether you like to stick with old faithfuls, or will be brave enough to consider the zany Charlie Sheen (always good for new laughs!) –

TipTop Insights -- Charlie Sheen Halloween

we’re sure you’ll enjoy browsing these delightful pages, full of hundreds of fresh Halloween insights every time you visit.

Wishing you a TipTop Halloween!

President Obama Approval Trends: Post bin Laden, Middle East Speech & Netanyahu

tiptoptechnologies — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:34:24 +0000

TipTop has been tracking ‘Obama‘ tweets from around the world for over 18 months and we’ve been watching the people’s mood turn steadily against the President for a couple weeks now after his ratings jumped above a satisfaction level of 50 on May 2nd. The Gallup Daily Obama Job Approval poll also shows that President Obama’s post-bin-Laden bounce in popularity has run its course as mentioned in this National Journal article. Comparing the charts below, you can see how the Gallup Daily telephone poll follows TipTop’s sentiment trend analysis of President Obama tips found in social media.

Using TipTop’s social search, you can also get a snapshot of public sentiment and the related topics that are buzzing around news events, celebrity figures or popular trends. I was interested in the public reaction around the world to President Obama’s Middle East Speech. Below are pre and post-speech TipTop tweets around the trending twitter hashtag topics #MEspeech and #Obama which show both the buzz topics and the overall negative sentiment around the President and his speech.

On TipTop search you can share more than tips. For example, you can share sentiment trends & current topics around events like the Obama-Netanyahu meeting.

Whatever your interest — Gaddafi or Strauss-Kahn, Japan or Israel, Zombie Apocalypse or #iftheworldendsonsaturday — get the best tips at www.feeltiptop.com or m.feeltiptop.com, your window to the world.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Does Social Media Make You Dizzy? Let the TipTop Reader for SD2 Break It Down

tiptoptechnologies — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:50:21 +0000

The TipTop Reader plugin for the Seesmic Desktop 2 client is a great way to meaningfully & efficiently break down information flowing through your social networks & news feeds topic by sentiment-fused topic. I had Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin & Google Reader accounts, but after a while I just ignored them due to lack of time, feeling inundated with information, and seemingly useless updates from friends, followers & feeds. After I downloaded the TipTop Reader SD2 plugin from Seesmic Marketplace I was amazed how social media feeds & my friend’s updates were opened up to me in a constructive engaging way. Rather than being overwhelming with others’ publishing agendas, I could delve into the topics I wanted and see all related content in one place in the TipTop sentiment cloud. All of a sudden I could check out Facebook updates that I was actually interested in, Tweets about topics I cared about & articles from Google Reader that I was intrigued to read.

The TipTop Reader plugin for SD2 was built using TipTop’s semantic technology. The full social search experience on TipTop can be found by going to http://feeltiptop.com or using your smart-phone and visiting m.feeltiptop.com.

Have a tip top week!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Tap Into Your News by Topic or Time: WP7 Apps for Twitter & Google Reader

tiptoptechnologies — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:39:25 +0000

TipTop Technologies just released two free Windows Phone 7 apps to make smart phone users’ lives more streamlined, organized & engaging. Both the TipSweet client & the TipTop Reader app create ‘Hot Topic’ concept clouds from your Twitter or Google Reader feeds so you can quickly scan, tap into specific points of interest & get the tips you need at any time on your WP7 phone. Using TipSweet is as easy as logging into your Twitter account on your phone. Watch the video below to see how TipTop’s semantic magic can help you get the most out of real-time news and conversations you have with your followers.

I also really enjoy using the TipTop Reader app on my WP7 phone (see RWW’s “Using Windows Phone 7: One Week with an HD7) to break down all the news content & RSS feeds I aggregated on Google Reader into bite sized topics & consumable tips. I can’t wait until TipTop comes out with a Web-based version of this personalized news reader so I can get the same experience on my laptop. In the meantime you can check out this video tutorial for the TipTop Reader. One reviewer from Zune Marketplace writes:

I love the approach to summarizing feeds and displaying the topic cloud/tag (which is auto generated based on the most current items in your feeds). This lets me filter by the topics I want to see rather than scroll through a huge list based on the time (which is also supported). Quite often stories are duplicated (in the feeds) so using the topic cloud I can just read one version of a story that is of interest. Since Google Reader is a good place to consolidate feeds, this takes it further by making it easier to consume. the topics are also colorized based on the sentiment of the stories for that topic which is pretty cool.

Please give both of these social & news apps a whirl, download the TipTop Reader and TipSweet from your WP7 by searching for ‘TipTop’ on Zune Marketplace. We’d appreciate hearing your reaction after trying these apps by adding a review on Zune or posting a comment here. Also, you can always tap into the power of TipTop on any mobile phone by going to m.feeltiptop.com.

Enjoy!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Charlie Sheen Brands @charliesheen, Gets Social Media Celebrity Status as a TipTop Trend

tiptoptechnologies — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:22:39 +0000

TipTop Technologies’ ongoing analysis of tweets about “Charlie Sheen” and from:CharlieSheen through his newly Ad.ly-brokered @charliesheen Twitter account, is uncovering some interesting semantic trends. At over 2.2 million followers on March 8th, Sheen has accrued a lot of social media capital in a Guinness Book of Records amount of time. TipTop can’t tell you how much this socially networked online persona is worth, but you can use TipTop’s social search & conversation engine for brand management analysis and to peruse “TipTop Trends in Social Media: Charlie Sheen Coverage” to get the latest insights, tips or trends over time for this “#winning” celebrity.

As you can see from the trend chart above, as of today, negative sentiment has overtaken the overall positive sentiment trends related to Charlie Sheen. Maybe this is why Sheen is looking to hire a social media intern to manage his twitter account. In anycase, you can see how TipTop organizes Tips, displays trends & identifies hot topics by checking out CharlieSheen’s TipTop profile & search results pages below.

Charlie Sheen's Social Media Profile on TipTop

Tips & Trends for Charlie Sheen on TipTop

Your call…fried celebrity, celebrity genius or social media guru? Stay trendy on TipTop & share your tips!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

TipTop’s 2011 Oscars Race Social Media Award Winners Before the Envelope, Please

tiptoptechnologies — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:12:29 +0000

In the final hour before the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony begins & the Oscar nominees walk down the Red Carpet, TipTop takes a snapshot of our Oscar’s awards leaderboards. We have been tracking Oscar-related tweets & extracting the sentiment around the actor & actress nominees and film & movie nominations since February 14th. To see what passions are flying around the actors, actresses & directors this year check out TipTop’s Red Carpet Passion Pies slice by emotional slice. For the 2011 Academy Awards, TipTop’s social media Oscar award predictions are:

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I used the Best Picture sentiment leaderboard http://ftt.nu/R09rB on TipTop for Oscar nominee tips to make my award prediction:True Grit

Best Picture Winner: The King’s Speech

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I used the Best Director race leaderboard http://ftt.nu/LWmGN on TipTop for #Oscars nominee tips to make my award prediction: Tom Hooper

Directing Winner: Tom Hooper

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I used the Best Actor race chart http://ftt.nu/acItv on TipTop for Oscar nominee tips to make my award prediction: Jeff Bridges

Actor in a Leading Role Winner: Colin Firth

@gregomyleggo

I used the Best Actress tweet sentiment chart http://ftt.nu/5ac01 on TipTop 4 #Oscars nominee tips 2 make my award prediction: Nicole Kidman

Actress in a Leading Role Winner: Natalie Portman

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I used TipTop’s Best Supporting Actor sentiment chart http://ftt.nu/m78RT for #Oscars nominee tips to make my award prediction: John Hawkes

Best Supporting Actor Winner: Christian Bale

@gregomyleggo

I used TipTop’s Best Supporting Actress race chart http://ftt.nu/cVpsQ for #Oscars nominee tips to make my award prediction: Melissa Leo

Best Supporting Actress Winner: Melissa Leo

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I used TipTop’s Best Animated Film sentiment trends chart http://ftt.nu/mWDeI for #Oscars tips to make my award prediction: The Illusionist

Best Animated Film Winner: Toy Story 3

@gregomyleggo

I used TipTop’s Best Foreign Film sentiment leaderboard http://ftt.nu/yFnxP for #Oscars nominee tips to make my award prediction: Incendies

Best Foreign Film Winner: In a Better World

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I used the Best Screenplay tweet chart http://ftt.nu/P9qyd on TipTop for Oscar nominee tips to make my award prediction: The King’s Speech

Best Original Screenplay Winner: The King’s Speech

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I used the Best Documentary race chart http://ftt.nu/vmt3q on TipTop for Oscar nominee tips to make my award prediction: Restrepo

Best Documentary Winner: Inside Job

To capture the passion of the Red Carpet fashion TipTop is also analyzing the emotional component of Oscars-related tweets & presenting how fans in social media really feel about all these celebrities during the Academy Awards ceremony & the after-party. Make sure you take a look tomorrow at our Red Carpet Celebrity Pasion Pies to see who was hot & who was a flop. Also read TipTop’s press release, “2011 Oscars Nominees & Fan Reaction to the 83rd Academy Awards Slice by Emotional Slice“.

Enjoy!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Predicting 2011 Oscar Winners for the 83rd Academy Awards

tiptoptechnologies — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:55:28 +0000

Many movie fans & film critics are wondering or guessing who will win an Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 27th. If you’d like to predict the winners in 2011 with the help of semantics & social media, TipTop’s 83rd Academy Awards Special is the best place for you to visit. TipTop’s engine is continuously extracting the sentiment expressed in thousands of your tweets each day around the Oscars as well as the films & actors that have been nominated for these awards. It’s not as painful as it might sound and no one is injured except for some celebrity egos along the way. TipTop’s Oscar preductions are found in our blog post, “Oscars Race Social Media Award Winners Before the Envelope, Please”.

So, instead of using a crystal ball this year, we recommend you review TipTop’s Academy Award Leaderboards to see who is Top trending and who is Flop trending. You can also use the daily tips and the top web sites that TipTop features in addition to sentiment trends for each of the films, movies, actors & actresses. Give us a spin and let us know your predictions by tweeting them to @twitTipTop or posting them on TipTop’s facebook page.

Today, Jeff Bridges is Tops on the Best Actor Leaderboard but this can’t be a long term trend! If you tweet, now is a great time to support your favorite movie, actor and actress with messages indicating your liking. Make sure you visit TipTop’s Academy Award Leaderboards for the latest results and come back next week to see TipTop’s award predictions! We were quite pleased with the accuracy of our predictions last year. Read “Watching the 2010 Academy Awards & Walking the Red Carpet Via TipTop Social Search & Sentiment” for our 82nd Academy Award prediction results.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Find Me a Gift, Make Me a Match, Be My TipTop Valentine

tiptoptechnologies — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:41:16 +0000

Who needs cupid for Valentine’s Day when you have TipTop! If you are already feeling smitten & know your sweetheart’s twitter name, just enter it in TipTop’s Valentine Gift Finder & you will get personalized gift ideas for them. If you are bit more sly, enter your own twitter ID and share your favorite gift ideas with that special someone. Of course, you can browse our Valentine ‘gifts for’ lists & shop for presents for your girlfriend, husband, lover or a new guy or girl in your life.

So even if @tigerwoods isn’t your lover this Valentine’s Day, TipTop can help you find a special someone who is also looking for love on twitter. From the “Be My Valentine” tab on the Valentine’s Day Special, enter your (or a friends:) twitter ID & see who TipTop finds as a potential match. If you don’t see a potential partner, just hit ‘Refresh’, click to ‘View’ a person’s profile on TipTop or ‘Share’ the match with a friend or family member.

So you’ve hooked “your friends” up with some TipTop personality matches, now its time to find someone who matches your desires & needs. Maybe one of your Valentine’s date requirements is that s/he have a job. Just type in “work” and connect with those perspective matches by clicking the interaction buttons below their message.

Now that you found a date & bought a gift its time to figure out where to take your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day. Check out all the Valentine weekend romantic activity ideas TipTop compiled from thousands of tweets, semantically analyzed and presented in Top 10 lists and searchable concept cloud. Click to see them all!

Top romantic destinations for Valentine’s weekend in 2011 include: Vegas, Chicago, LA, Miami, NYC, Atlanta, Paris, London, Houston, and Hawaii.

We hope TipTop has made your Valentine’s Day one to remember no matter which kind of match you have made!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Super Bowl 45 Ad-ticipation: 2011 Big Game Commercials & Brand Sentiment

tiptoptechnologies — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:27:36 +0000

Fasten your seat belts for Super Bowl 45 football fans! “Big Game” brands are hunting you down, whether you are plastered to the TV, tweeting on the phone, faning on facebook, or gaming on the go like an angry bird. 2011 Super Bowl advertisers are dipping into the “Social Bowl” cracking the “Mobile Bowl” and “Crashing in on the Super Bowl” in every which way but loose. See how the ads fared from our post game press release “SuperBowl Ad Sentiment Sliced-n-Diced by TipTop Analytics“.

Whether you plan to watch the Super Bowl Sunday or just catch the commercials after the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers mash it out, TipTop offers a great way to:

quickly see a summary of SB45 tweets, trends, top tips & web pages;
view pre & post game trends in brand sentiment for Super Bowl sponsors and their commercial ads & videos;
get in-depth coverage for popular brands, like Volkswagen or Motorola, to see long term sentiment trends and daily news summaries;
search TipTop for the best tips from social media & the web for ads like:

Audi’s “Release the Hounds” & “Green Police”

Best Buy’s Justin Bieber & Ozzy Osborne ad

BMW’s “ActiveE” & “BMW Mini”

Bridgestone’s “Reply All” & “Carma”

Bud Light’s “Here We Go”

Budweiser “to-be-continued” “Giddy Up”

CareerBuilder’s “Chimps” or “Parking Lot”

Cars.com’s “Go First” &“The Reviews Are In”

Chevrolet’s “Bumblebee”

Coca-Cola’s “Border Crossing”

Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl”

E-trade baby @etradebaby

GoDaddy’s “Contract”, “Dot Co” & “GoDaddy girls”

HomeAway’s “Ministry of Detourism”

Hyundai Elantra’s “Hypnotized”, “Childhood“, “Sheep“, “Deprogramming” & “Anachronistic City”

Kia’s “One Epic Ride”

Mars Snickers “Logging”

Pepsi’s “Elevator Girl” “First Date” “Love Hurts” “Torpedo Cooler” “Zero Calories?”

Volkswagen’s “The Force” & “Black Beetle”

Paramount’s “Captain America: The First Avenger”, “Rango“, “Super 8“, “Thor” &“Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon.”

Salesforce’s “Baby Peas”

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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