The very cool week that was
Friday, September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Posted in: Community, Listening, Platform, Social Media, Social Media Monitoring, Social Media News, Technology
MTV VMAs on Sunday
First off was the amazing MTV Video Music Awards held on Sunday night. We had a chance to work with some great folks at MTV, Twitter and Stamen on a twitter visualization application that was used during the pre and post-show roundups. MTV was kind enough to share the clips from the show (play above). The cool part of this all was watching the show and seeing how it rolled with the audience feedback, and vice versa. And MTV.com scored some seriously wicked results from this new combo as well. Hopefully we’ll see lots more of this kind of entertainment in the very near future.
PS. BTW @ijustine you did a fantastic job on the show.
Radian6 and Jive Software Partner
Secondly, we announced our partnership and integration with social business software company, Jive Software. Jive users now have access to industry-leading social media monitoring and measurement capabilities directly from within their Jive community platform, powered by Radian6, that allows them to easily capture and import external conversations from the social web. There was lots of coverage on the announcement so rather than go into too much detail here are a few of cool articles that covered it.
Check out this post from Jeremiah Owyang and Rang Wang as well as this
article written by Oliver Marks over at ZDNet.
Facebook public discussion boards added
Lastly, but not least, we slipped in some cool new functionality this morning that our users may have noticed when they poured their morning coffees and sat down to go through their Rivers of News. Yes, for those who did catch it, we added discovery of Facebook public discussion board content – which is part of groups. As most of you know Facebook data has been closed for monitoring and protected by a very strict terms of service. And rightly so because that’s what users expected when they signed up. Things are still very much behind a walled garden but Facebook has opened up the doors a bit allowing the discovery of conversations happening on discussion groups that are classified as public and accessible from the web. It’s a cool new step for them and yet another time saver for our users since they don’t have to make a special note to check these groups manually any longer.
One Response to “The very cool week that was”
Techno on February 18th, 2010 at 4:04 am
The MTV Music Video awards was one of the best ever.