Blog search broken? DEAD?! Let’s just call it “hybernating”.

Over the last year, there has been a flurry of stories on the blogosphere about the about the inability of big search players and small startups to create a viable blog search engine. It all gradually started with the ubiquitous niggle at Technorati, the “leading” player in the blog search market, a company that probably [...]

Topics on a rise? Launch of FeedVis certainly suggests so.

Before I speak any further about a possible “competitor”, I would like to clarify my personal position in this whole mess a little: Although the Topify project aims to provide its’ users with a perfect topic exploration experience and blow all the competition away, *grin*, we also want to see more linguistic tools used on [...]

Under Re-Construction

Sorry for not writing for a such a long time, but the Topify team has been quite busy with the personal life in the last 1.5 months to make any sort of huge progress. We have successfully launched our alpha version during the so-called Developers Day last month and met a lot of positive and [...]

Topify launching private alpha at Developers’ Day

Yes, it’s finally this far! We are violently beating at our keyboards and mouse buttons to finish up what seems like an alpha version of an exciting product. We still have some features missing completely, but the main bulk of the Topify world – blog topic mining and analytics – is done and awaiting [...]

Seedcamp – No. Launch – Yes! But where?

The news is actually out for a while now, but I’ve been obviously not too eager to inform anyone.. that we haven’t been invited for a shortlist-interview to London on September 3rd. It is quite sad that we won’t be able to make the great experience of seedcamp this year, but either way, we [...]

Topify + seedcamp = Love?!

Well, I hope you all know what seedcamp is and if not visit www.seedcamp.com to find out. To put it shortly, seedcamp is a week-long startup incubator where enterpreneurs get to meet experts from different fields and learn important lessons on how to manage to startup.
Why am I posting this? Well mostly because we have [...]

What’s the matter with tag clouds?

In response to Rob Cottingham’s post about the death of tag clouds on ReadWriteWeb I would like to elaborate a little why it appears that tag clouds are disappearing. Just to make it clear, I’m not saying that they are actually disappearing, but I do think that there are several reasons why tag clouds [...]

Topify Gets a Face

Yay! After months of pushing ideas, planning the concept and just being lazy as usual, the work on the Topify web site has finally kicked off “for real”. It’s not a lot yet, but we have a design and some good ideas, mostly aiming towards being user-friendly, intuitive and easily usable. The technical stuff is [...]

Extracting the “Public Opinion” from Blogs

I apologize for not being able to write a lot these last few weeks. I’ve been mostly busy working on a chapter about the theory of public opinion for my final thesis. This was a very enlightening experience, since it opened my eyes on the different ways one can take when measuring the “voix [...]

Tags and Headlines – Cheating on Topics?

Just a couple of weeks ago I was trying to set things straight in the rather troublesome relationship between tags and topics. The bottom line was that tags are just the same words we use in the content and are hence just as arbitrary and hard to generalize as the content itself. No perfect [...]