Comments on: Microsoft Blews Brings Back Memories Of Rocket Pops At The Beach

By: See the Bias in the News (Courtesy of Microsoft?) | Disinformation

See the Bias in the News (Courtesy of Microsoft?) | Disinformation — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:48:58 +0000

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By: Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites

Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:29:57 +0000

[...] has been testing a similar product, based on different technology, called Blews. CrunchBase Information Joshua Schachter Andy Baio Information provided by CrunchBase [...]

By: Barney Pell

Barney Pell — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:01:32 +0000

Matt Hurst on this team is a longtime friend and colleague. He really understands sentiment analysis, information extraction, and social media and it’s exciting to see this kind of a service coming out. The possibilities for sentiment analysis applied to a social media platform are fascinating. Imagine if you could search, refine, and filter results and feeds for everything based on sentiment! I’m not sure about this UI but that’s clearly just a start.

By: mojonixon

mojonixon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:00:49 +0000

Currently taking a class on computational linguistics. Just thinking about how they implemented this makes my head hurt.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:00:07 +0000

I wonder if there’s a way to block the stupid anti-MS comments in every post. It’s kinda annoying. Downright ridiculous childish comments.

By: G C

G C — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:42:13 +0000

bunch of MS haters…..

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:36:59 +0000

Ha. That is just a most excellent title.

By: disinfo.com

disinfo.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:02:35 +0000

See The Bias In The News (Courtesy of Microsoft?)…

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reports:Microsoft Blews [ralph says: weird name, and from Microsoft?] is a news aggregator that goes beyond mere clustering of stories to show what’s important right now based on who’s linking to what in near real ti…

By: Yoostin (Justin Lewis)

Yoostin (Justin Lewis) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:56:56 +0000

“Blews” is the Welsh word for pubic hair, tis true.

By: James

James — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:54:29 +0000

Sweet…imagine the level that political polls and other measures of the nation’s pulse can be taken to using this tech.

By: Elder

Elder — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:44:21 +0000

“It is very hard to get a machine to decipher emotion and meaning from raw text unless they are doing mere keyword searches (see, for example, Powerset).”

Huh? Why is it easier to understand meaning with keyword search than with more complex semantic processing? Seems counterintuitive. No, wait — it IS counterintuitive.

By: nolin

nolin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:24:14 +0000

there was a Toronto-based start-up a few years ago called Sonic Boomerang that had build a web-based tool for PR people that did sentiment analysis of media coverage. Cool product, pretty good AI, but unfortunately didn’t catch on and I think the company eventually folded. Not sure where the technology or the developers ended up.

By: Rocket Pop Hater

Rocket Pop Hater — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:31:13 +0000

Sorry, I never liked Rocket Pops. Too much ice, too little flavor, too hard to eat.

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:14:05 +0000

Very interesting. Being able to identify bias is quite powerful but obviously difficult to do using only machine intelligence. Humans can identify bias and credibility gaps quite easily, and I know of at least one startup looking to tackle this issue using a combination of crowd wisdom and computer algorithms (full disclosure: its my startup!). There are a number of challenges, but I’m pretty confident that as social news sites mature, this is the direction they’ll go. The first generation of social news sites were about popularity. The next generation will use key criterion like quality and credibility.

By: Masseratti

Masseratti — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:07:08 +0000

We already know WINBLOWS, now we get M$ BLOWS

By: km4

km4 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:59:15 +0000

Microsoft is calling this hard bit “detecting emotional charge.

Everyone else calls it sentiment analysis.

Microsoft…. what an innovator !

By: Really Annoying

Really Annoying — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:40:26 +0000

Mike,

This is really annoying…. you know about everything from “pop” culture, to text mining, to apparently IPTV internals…

Is there any topic you *don’t* know about?

By: Dyde

Dyde — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:57:50 +0000

Damn does MS Marketing consider stupid names as a best practice. MS Blows… on so many levels — that should be their new motto

By: Burt

Burt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:50:09 +0000

I want one of those now. I hate you Techcrunch

By: Strubit

Strubit — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:42:57 +0000

love the visual comparison. Very apt and funny. So Mike, you downed a few Rocket pops when you were living in Manhattan beach?

By: Ari

Ari — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:34:36 +0000

“The dots around the edges suggest the emotional charge of the commentary, which can drip off of the Rocket Pop in very hot weather.”

By: Blews?

Blews? — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:29:24 +0000

This blows….