April 25th, 2013

The New Laugh Track? ABC News’ Social Soundtracker App Translates User Sentiment Into Sound

social soundtracker

There have been many attempts to integrate social media conversations with live TV, often through a “second screen” experience (basically, a smartphone app). But ABC News just announced something that I haven’t seen before — a mobile and web-based app called the Social Soundtracker.

Maya Baratz, ABC News’ head of new products, compared the app to the laugh tracks that accompany TV sitcoms… → Read More

March 9th, 2010

StatusNet Signs Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public Beta)

Does the world need more than one Twitter? How about 10,000 of them? That is how many sites are running on the hosted version of StatusNet, which went into private beta at our Realtime CrunchUp last November. Today, StatusNet is opening up its hosted service to all comers in a public beta.

You can think about StatusNet as the WordPress of microblogging. StatusNet is open-source software which… → Read More