The speakers mostly (and understandably) looked at the interpersonal interactions of what is, after all, social media. However when I got up for my slot, I choose to talk about Twitter as a Universal Information Stream. Slides below or here.
I included an idea from Matt Volpi (about automatically reporting point-of-sale data and also DVR data), from his comment on this blog when I first previewed this talk and asked for input. Thanks, Matt! Others may also recognise their ideas replayed here as well, so please remind me if I owe you credit.
Twitter as a Universal Information Stream
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5 comments:
Just found a great tweeting cat door.
Zappo's realtime sales map is a real-time automated (mapped) data stream of sales made ... if sent to twitter simultaneously would be another example of my hypothesis, but is pretty close, wouldn't you say?
Here's a grand dashboard from Sprint, that is also on the same topic. Amazing.
I love this - semi-automated tweet when fresh stuff ready at the bakery. Check out the video on Vimeo.
Twitter can send a message when a cat door iused or when a baby kicks in utero (cute, quaint) but it can also be configured to transmit messages to online health records from real-time patient monitors (blood pressure, insulin tests, etc.) cutting out the opportunity for patient error in recording and entering data, and perhaps reducing health care providers' distrust of non-health-professional-entered health data. De-identified data may be collected and aggregated in order to aid in analyzing population health or behavior as well.
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