Wholly Social

I’ve been thinking more about automated sentiment analysis, so thought I’d share a few last comments before finding another hobby horse.
I was pretty down on the tech in my last post. I had a few reasons,  mainly wrapped up in the fact that I don’t think it does a good enough job to be used [...]

As I promised last week, here is the latest in a series of posts about the way in which UK mobile phone carriers engage online (specifically, on Twitter). To recap, I aim to develop a top-to-toe analysis of Twitter presence. It’s going to be comprehensive, so I’m going to split it across multiple bite-sized posts [...]

Around the time of our Android study last summer, I collected a snapshot of data relating to the Twitter presence of UK mobile carriers. Working on some research surrounding this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona inspired me to take a fresh look, and see what has changed.
I’ve taken a nose-to-tail view of these data [...]

Import seems to have gone OK. Bar some tinkering with themes and plugins, I think I am done.
First of a series of posts about UK mobile operators’ presence on Twitter coming later today.

I’ve mainly been  blogging about methodology issues on Five Ideas That Matter in recent months (my last post here was in July? SERIOUSLY?). After some interesting recent experiences with some new (to me) monitoring, analysis and visualisation tools though, I’ve decided to pick the blogging baton back up over here.
First though, I’m porting [...]

I’m really pleased to have publicly shared a report by the TCG research crew this week: ‘Surviving in iPhone Territory’. The report is an analysis of discussion surrounding the launch of the HTC G1 handset (the first phone to use the Google Android operating system) during the late part of 2008, taking place via online [...]

Here is an interesting paper from EuroVis 2009 presenting a novel approach to edge bundling in influencer network visualizations (via visualcomplexity).
We work a lot with this type of graphical analysis in TCG research projects – usually taking a simple citation analysis approach to data, with the visualizations produced using Touchgraph Navigator. While these visualizations can [...]

A fascinating paper from University of Texas researchers Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov, showing how easy it is to de-anonymize the user data routinely shared by online social networks. While interesting from an analytics perspective, the paper also ties into a broader debate about the expectations we have to privacy online.
Today’s cultural and legal situation [...]

The social media world can feel clubby, and dominated by transatlantic, anglophone perspectives. For this reason, I was fascinated to read a recent post by Swedish blogger Hans Kullin about the nordic microblog landscape.
The nordics have always been a sophisticated and innovative market for social technologies, so word (albeit anecdotal) of a large-scale defection of [...]