Why you shouldn’t buy our software

First off, it’s just awful. But the other reason is that you might not have enough data to have anything meaningful to look at. We’re known for doing beautiful real-time visualizations (that’s a live link to 1% of everything happening on twitter. But for most companies, if we monitor your mentions real-time, you’ll be waiting a long time between tweets. We’re also known …

Facebook can predict if you’re gay and like ice cream

Networked Insights saw declining mentions of iPhones by teens as a signal for Apple’s depressed earnings forecast What women most want is ice cream, while men want cars says social analytics firm NetBase. Facebook can predict if you’re gay or exactly where you’ll be in one year from now within 50 meters with high accuracy (Hey, do you like Spongebob and work out on Wednesday mornings …

Adobe Social predicts the future with Social Predictive Publishing

Marty McFly has a silver DeLorean that can go 88 miles per hour. And Adobe announced predictive publishing on Facebook. Integrated into the Adobe Social publishing tool, it will increase your newsfeed exposure by: Suggesting when to post. Identifying low-ranking words to replace, including synonyms to use. Predicting how many likes, comments, and shares you’ll get. Show you historical posts with similar …