Posts Tagged ‘OneRiot’

It will be interesting to see how Walmart develops its social shopping network with the team for OneRiot now aboard. The largest retailer in the country is known for its great savings for shoppers. But of late, it is developing a strong online presence with recent acquisitions of online advertising companies.

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As I expected, yet another company has teamed up with OneRiot for added realtime search capabilities. Shareaholic, a browser-based content sharing tool, has released a new update called the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor, marking its entry into the realtime realm.

The idea behind the new Buzz Monitor is to offer easier and more readily accessible trending news, from across the web. It’s just another way to offer the instant gratification consumers seemingly crave from web content these days. And this not only encompasses the web content itself, but the ethos surrounding it. What are people saying, and where are they saying it? This all comes together to form a new and momentary glance at what is going on at any given moment.
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OneRiot, the company looking to index the web in real time, has added a new Twitter search. At first glance, the new Twitter search on OneRiot doesn’t really look a whole lot different from Twitter’s own search. Type in a keyword and you’ll see all the related tweets and associated twitterers. Along the right-hand side of the page you’ll see the trend search terms, and at the top of the page you’ll be prompted to refresh the page in order to see how many more related tweets have come in since starting your search.

What makes the OneRiot Twitter search different is the fact that OneRiot is indexing weblinks that are being shared via tweets. It’s an interesting perspective for web search, specific to Twitter and socially driven. For each link shared on Twitter, OneRiot will note the user who initially found it, how many tweets have shared it, and when it was last shared through Twitter.
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