The third Training Module of DataSift, “Operators”, is scheduled on the next Friday 8 of July. In this new interactive webinar we will cover the following topics: DataSift Training Module 03: “Operators” 1. Introduction to Operators 2. General Operators 2.1  contains 2.2  substr 2.3  contains_any 2.4  contains_near 2.5  exists 2.6  in 3. Comparative Operators 3.1  Less Than and Greater Than 3.2  Equals (==) 3.3  Not Equals (!=) 4. Regular Expressions 4.1  regex_partial 4.2  regex_exact 5….

At present we are switching over our systems to our automated licensing engine. For a short period users who do not have an approved license will be banned if they try to access Twitter data. Please contact support@mediasift.com and we will un-ban you if you experience this problem. In order to ensure that you do not get banned again please add the following CDSL code to your Streams, so that you do not access Twitter…

As you know DataSift is scheduling a series of training programs through webinars. Here you can watch the first one we did, “Basic Concepts”, introducing a general overview of the Platform. Our second webinar, “Getting Started” is scheduled on the next Friday, 24th June 2011. The invitations are limited, so hurry up and reserve your seat today right here! http://vimeo.com/25027740 Want the Slides of this Webinar? Just click here  

Today Twitter announced that it will be soon releasing a new integrated photo sharing service. Because this service is part of Twitter it means a new set of meta-data will become available for filtering in DataSift. Twitter have already documented the new entities and we will be adding these to our targets as soon as they become available in the Twitter Firehose. We will be looking at what filtering potential these new entities give our…

We will be very soon making some changes to our core API and I wanted to to explain why we were making them. One of the first things we built for DataSift was the REST API – this was based upon the code from TweetMeme which had served us so well (it still servers 10,000′s of requests per second). We designed the API based upon a lot of assumptions back then and with hindsight they…

Mediasift and Twitter have partnered to make Twitter data commercially available through DataSift. This means that developers interested in building tools to monitor and analyze Twitter data can now filter Tweets from the full Twitter Firehose, using DataSift for non-display analysis. Companies and marketers are demanding better ways to listen to their customers on Twitter, and understand conversations about their brands and products. With so much news and data being created across multiple social networks,…

This weekend the world descends on South By Southwest in Austin, Texas for music, film and interactive talks and panels. But one thing ties these topics together… after parties! But how can you find the venues to go to? Where are the most influential people? Well with Cluster we have answered that question for you. Using the power of DataSift to filter real-time data and augment it, we’ve combined that processing power with Foursquare place…

We have been working hard over the last few weeks to improve our filtering engine, in both efficiency and with new features. Firstly, lets cover the differences between the last iteration of the CDSL and this new version. Changes to CONTAINS operator We have a new more efficient way of searching for keywords and/or phrases that now replaces the old implementations of CONTAINS, CONTAINS_WORD & CONTAINS_PHRASE operators, and has merged them into a single CONTAINS…

What do Twitter, Netflix and climate change all have in common? Their biggest problems are data problems. And we are turning to Data 2.0 for the answers. The Data 2.0 Conference is a one-day conference on April 4, 2011, in San Francisco that answers the question: How can improved access to data impact your industry?  The U.S. government is opening up its data; social networks are exposing their APIs; and data-as-a-service is a new and…

We have been selected to take part in the Startup Showcase at the O’Reilly Strata Conference being held next week in Santa Clara. The showcase includes 15 data startups and a group of judges who will rotate around each of the companies voting on their favorites. We will be showing off the very latest version of DataSift including an early showing of our new data storage and map-reduce platform which is going to change the…