«
»

[How-To] Spy onto the Social Media Conversations

If you are someone who is already using Google Alerts or Tweetbeep to keep track of the various conversations happening around the internet, you would be amused to learn that Spy, a Google App Engine deployed application can take all this a step further and let you keep track of the conversations happening in the Social Media.

Earlier before it got aquired by Twitter, people used Summize: Realtime Twitter Search for  tracking conversations happening on Twitter. As conversations on the social media happen in lot of ways which include, Blog Comments, Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr etc… it becomes essential that their exists a single application which can help you keep track of the realtime conversations happening on these platforms. Here is when Spy comes into picture.

 

Image: Spy can help you listen to the social media conversations

Image: Spy can help you listen to the social media conversations

Essentially, Spy can be seen as giving a view to the data flow happening between various Social Media Websites. As the author of Spy, Ben Hedrington says

I combined feeds from Summize and Friendfeed to bring together the posts over a given time period and set them to scroll using some packaged JavaScript libraries, this created a simple interface that put in your face exactly what is being said about something that is relevant to you, say a conference you happen to be at, a company you work for, watch a news event unfold in front of your eyes before the US media is reporting it or maybe the news on your favorite presidential candidate.

Though, mostof the results are Twitter dominated, but Spy also does gives you results from other social media, thereby giving you a bigger and a better picture of the conversation taking place as a whole in the social media sphere.

Do try out Spy and let me know your comments.

 

You can also follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/vaibhav1981

Do stay tuned to Technofriends for more, one of the best ways of doing so is by subscribing to our feeds. You can subscribe to Technofriends feed by clicking here.

Related posts:

  1. Track the popularity and awareness of trends on Social Media using Trendrr
  2. Google Readers Get Social (Allows You to Send Items to Social Networking and BookMarking sites)
  3. Summize: Realtime Twitter Search
  4. Why I Use Ping.Fm (Post To Multiple Social Networks Simultaneously)
  5. [Social Networking] BuddyPress 1.0 Officially Released

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 3:29 pm and is filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “[How-To] Spy onto the Social Media Conversations”

  1. [...] Also Read: [How-To] Spy onto the Social Media Conversations [...]

Leave a Reply