Today, Federal District Court Judge Edward Chen ruled in favor of PeopleBrowsr and returned Peoplebrowsr’s case against Twitter to the San Francisco Superior Court.

(San Francisco, CA) - December 4, 2012
On November 28, PeopleBrowsr won a temporary restraining order compelling Twitter to continue providing full Firehose access. PeopleBrowsr was due to file in San Francisco Superior Court today for preliminary discovery with a hearing to take place on Wednesday, December 4.

Foolproof is a UK-based user experience design consultancy that focuses on utilizing consumer insights to aid in business decision making. Since many of their product decisions are driven by consumer data, they understand the value of adopting a solid social media strategy that fosters conversation and increases engagement.

Brandwatch is making social influence a key part of their social media monitoring tool with Kred. Kred will now be integrated into the Brandwatch platform so social media analysts can quickly and easily pinpoint key influencers.

The dichotomy of data lies between the freedom and control of information. As individuals, we’re concerned about privacy, yet we fight for transparency. We worry about Big Brother tracking our every movement but in truth, there is not one central governing body. We’re in the midst of an Inverted Orwellian Revolution, in which we curate our own realities by choosing to participate in online communities.

This year marks a critical awakening in the shift of power between those who produce information, those who obtain it, and those who share it. With real-time social media, we are rethinking the flow of information between individual actors, influencers, journalists, governments, and corporations. The recent events surrounding WikiLeaks heightens our awareness of how culture is shaping on the digital frontier. As pioneers in the field of data analytics, we’ve been watching this story through the lens of social research.

From November 29th to December 6th, we extracted all mentions of #WikiLeaks on Twitter to gain a better understanding of the conversation climate on the social web. We wanted to gain insight into how communities were forming groups based on shared beliefs, and the general sentiment surrounding news events. In total, we found 49, 484 mentions of WikiLeaks on Twitter, over a period of 8 days.

As the evolution of the social-semantic web continues, we’re happy to be introducing our game-changing new product, Research.ly. Designed for Online Marketers, Brand Managers, and Social Media Experts, ReSearch.ly creates instant communities in real-time with viral analytics and viral search. With marketers and researchers in the midst of an inverted Orwellian Revolution, ReSearch.ly enables trustworthy engagement in Twitter’s social hub with the most relevant and reliable contextual data.

From Social Graph to Interest Graph

Search is a social act, which relies on the collective trust of communities. These communities are forming instantly around ideas or interests, rather than through social connections. ReSearch.ly creates instant communities from conversational context and is the next generation in understanding the ‘big picture’ of social impressions across relational interest graphs.