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What is tattlerapp.com?

Tattler (app) is an open source topic monitoring tool for today‘s Web.

Local Drupal instance that mines news, websites, blog, multimedia sites and other social media like Twitter.

source: tattlerapp.com

Tattlerapp.com was active only in July-December 2009 (source tattlerapp.com Roadmap)

– Enterprise version (2.0) planned, but never released.

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What sources are crawled?

• Twitter• YouTube• Yahoo News• Google Blog/News/Video• Flickr• Delicious• Technorati• WordPress (Blogs)• …

no complete list found, extracted from the source code: sites/all/modules/buzzmonitor/buzz_topics/searchfeeds.inc

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Target Audience

PR and Communications

Publisher and Journalists

Researchers and Policy Analysts

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How does it look like? – Topic Management

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How does it look like? – Trend Visualization

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Were is behind tattlerapp.com?

• Phase2Technology - www.phase2technology.com• Based in Alexandria, USA• Founded in 2001• No business model for tattlerapp.com (OpenSource project)

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Analyze

Not more than a proof-of-concept

• Good approach, but inactive and incomplete• No support for social network, except for twitter.

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