- Is anyone else excited about the Gnip schema update? January 6, 2009 jdowdle (Jon Dowdle)
- gnip //activity/payload/body 期待 January 6, 2009 fuba (fuba)
- gnip + twitter 本文とれるようになるっぽい http://tinyurl.com/a8mw8x January 6, 2009 youpy ([SPAM]チ～ムラボの猪子でしゅ)
- holding off crowdstatus update due to changes with gnip 's new version. running an app with no funding is tough sometimes. January 6, 2009 ninjamonk (Darren Stuart)
- @Telemill Most likely revenue path is as platform for other svcs (e.g. Gnip, StockTwits, etc.) & groups for businesses (Zappos et. al) January 6, 2009 khyron4eva (Khyron)
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Preview: Gnip Publisher Analytics
November 17, 2008, 10:09am by Shane Pearson
With everything going on here at Gnip we want to try and regularly preview some of the new features we are working on so people can send us feedback and plan ahead. One feature that we know a lot of people are interested in us delivering is usage and operational reporting and analytics. The reasons for adding an analytics dashboard are many and the primary reason is that we believe it will help companies and developers better understand the richness and variability of the data streams they care about.
Below is one example of the analytics features that we are planning to provide in the near future. This image shows the Digg Data Stream summary view with individual diggs, comments and submissions per second being streamed by the Gnip platform.
Figure: Gnip — Digg Data Stream Activity View
Obviously we could pivot on the summary view to show different types of details depending on any number of variables that Gnip partners and customers find interesting. If your company has specific requests for analytics and reporting please let us know.
Solution Spotlight: Soup.io is now using Gnip
November 10, 2008, 11:49am by Shane Pearson
Soup.io is now using the Gnip messaging platform for their web API data integration needs. Welcome Soup.io!
Who is Soup.io?
Soup.io provides a easy to use micro-blogging and lifestream service that serves as an aggregator for your public social media feeds. Visit their website at http://www.soup.io/or their blog at http://updates.soup.io/ to learn more.
Real-world results Soup.io says they are realizing from using Gnip
Soup.io is using Gnip to provide data integration to Twitter, and they have seen a reduction in the latency for their Twitter integration (i.e. the time elapsed for a tweet to show up in the Soup.io service) since moving to Gnip. Now Soup.io users should see their Twitter notices show up within a minute of them being sent on the Twitter service. Since Gnip also provides data streams from many other providers as well (Flickr, Delicious, etc) Soup.io is working to use Gnip as the way to access and integrate to these services in the future.
Gnip’s Jud Valeski talks shop on the Yahoo Developer Network
November 7, 2008, 12:57pm by Shane Pearson
Jud Valeski sat down earlier this week with the Yahoo Developer Network at Defrag.
Watch the video here
Solution Spotlight: Strands now using Gnip
November 7, 2008, 11:54am by Shane Pearson
Strands is the newest company using the Gnip messaging platform for their web API data integration needs. Welcome Strands and thank you to Aaron for sharing what the team is doing!
Who is Strands?
Strands develops technologies to better understand people’s taste and help them discover things they like and didn’t know about. Strands has created a social recommendation engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices. This enables users to discover new things, based on their online, offline and mobile activities. The Strands.com website helps people discover new things from other people. Visit http://www.strands.com to learn more.
Real-world results Strands says they are realizing from using Gnip
Strands.com is now able to give people updates faster and more reliably. In addition, Strands has seen reduced load on their system by not having to poll for updates on sites like Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, and Digg. Gnip allows Strands to receive push data from several of these sites, and at a minimum receive notifications when a user on these sites has made an update.
More examples of how companies are using Gnip
November 5, 2008, 12:36pm by Shane Pearson
We have noticed that we are interacting with two distinct groups of companies; those who instantly understand what Gnip does and those that struggle with what we do, so we decided to provide a few detailed real-world examples of the companies we are actively working with to provide data integration and messaging services today.
First, we are not an end-user facing social aggregation application. (We repeat this often.) We see a lot of people wanting to put Gnip in that bucket along with social content aggregators like FriendFeed, Plaxo and many others. These content aggregators are destination web sites that provide utility to end users by giving them flexibility to bring their social graph or part of their graph together in one place. Also, many of these services are now providing web APIs that allow people to use an alternative client to interact with their core services around status updates and conversations as well other features specific to the service.
Gnip is an infrastructure service and specifically we provide an extensible messaging system that allows companies to more easily access, filter and integrate data from web based APIs. While someone could use Gnip as a way to bring content into a personal social media client they want to write for a specific social aggregator it is not something we are focused. Below are the company use cases we are focused:
- Social content aggregators: One of the main reasons we started Gnip was to solve the problems being caused by the point-to-point integration issues that were springing up with the increase of user generated content and corresponding open web APIs. We believe that any developer who has written a poller once, twice, or to their nth API will tell you how unproductive it is to write and maintain this code. However, writing one-off pollers has become a necessary evil for many companies since the content aggregators need to provide access to as many external services as possible for their end users. Plaxo, who recently integrated to Gnip as a way to support their Plaxo Pulse feature is a perfect example, as are several other companies.
- Business specific applications: Another main reason we started Gnip was that we believe more and more companies are seeing the value of integrating business and social data as a way to add additional compelling value to their own applications. There are a very wide set of examples, such as how Eventvue uses Gnip as a way to integrate Twitter streams into their online conference community solution, and the companies we have talked to about how they can use Gnip to integrate web-based data to power everything from sales dashboards to customer service portals.
- Content producers: Today, Gnip offers value to content producers by providing developers an alternative tool that can be used to integrate to their web APIs. We are working with many producers, such as Digg, Delicious, Identi.ca, and Twitter, and plan to continue to grow the producers available aggressively. The benefits that producers see from working with Gnip include off-loading direct traffic to their web apis as well as providing another channel to make their content available. We are also working very hard to add new capabilities for producers, which includes plans to provide more detailed analytics on how their data is consumed and evaluating publishing features that could allow producers to define their own filters and target service endpoints and web sites where they want to push relevant data for their own business needs.
- Market and brand research companies: We are working with several companies that provide market research and brand analysis. These companies see Gnip as an easy way to aggregate social media data to be included in their brand and market analysis client services.
Hopefully this set of company profiles helps provide more context on the areas we are focused and the typical companies we are working with everyday. If your company does something that does not fit in these four areas and is using our services please send me a note.
Winding down XMPP, for now
November 3, 2008, 1:40pm by eric
Without going into a full blown post about XMPP, our take is that it’s a good model / protocol, with too many scattered implementations which is leaving it in the “immature” bucket. Apache wound up setting the HTTP standard, and an XMPP server equivalent hasn’t taken hold in the marketplace.
From Gnip’s perspective, XMPP is causing us pain and eating cycles. More than half of all customer service requests are about XMPP and in many cases, the receiving party isn’t standing up their own server. They’re running off of Google or Jabber.org and there’s not much we can do when they get throttled. As a result, we’ve decided that we should eliminate XMPP (both in/out bound) as soon as possible. Outbound will be shut off with our next code push on Wednesday; we’ll cut inbound when Twitter finds another way to push to us.
For the foreseeable future, our world revolves around increasing utility by adding to the breadth of publishers in our system. Features / functionality that support that goal are, with few exceptions, our only priority and XMPP support isn’t in that mix. Expect our first releases of hosted polling and usage statistics later this month. We’ll reevaluate XMPP support when either a) we have cycles or b) a significant number of partners request it.