More details on "track on steroids:" DataSift

DataSift.net is a remarkable service, coming soon to those of us who use Twitter and Facebook. What does it do? It lets you "sift" Twitter's real-time "firehose" feed into smaller streams. It's hard to explain, so I asked Nick Halstead, founder, to give me a tour.

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[anmaratube]

"We can cut out all swearing" - how, and would that apply to English only or to all languages?

[Robert Scoble]

it's pretty easy to make a list of words to filter out. In any language.

[expectationlost]

this interview is really 39 minutes long...!!!!

[Bob Wyman]

Sounds like PubSub.com's matching engine rediscovered 8 years later...

[anmaratube]

yes, sure. But how about different versions of one and the same word, I mean i.e. something like "Shhhh..te", "Fuuuu...k" - I mean, you cannot prevent people from posting all kinds of variations of swearwords, can you? If you can point me to a program which can do that, that would be really cool.

[webmindset]

Too good. datasift is an answered prayer!

[RichTVTioga]

Very good and interesting interview Mr. Scobleizer. This is a platform that is great for those of us that search Twitter, on a daily basis, on those we follow, events that are going on, subject matter of interest, and a whole bunch more.

Good YouTube Mr. Scobleizer, Thank-you.

@FiremanRich

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[AppleSoldier]

if they edit my words ill stop using.

[componioGmbH]

Sounds very interesting, would definitely want to try it out.

[tjdrico]

This looks like a fantastic tool. Can't wait to get my hands on it!