Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
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Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
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Re: Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
#2Some background: We launched this archive with the State of North Carolina yesterday. As far as we know, North Carolina is the first government in the world to make web 2.0 records available to the public in this type of extremely searchable, highly interactive fashion. I say "interactive" in reference to the fact that the records look and behave like the original social network. For example, you can expand comments on Facebook posts, view full-sized photos, expand shortened Twitter links, etc.
I'd love to get your feedback on the presentation of data and the usability of the search interface (I recommend clicking on some of the "Example Searches" to see how it works). I'm happy to speak to the underlying technology as well.
Re: Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
#3Some background: We launched this archive with the State of North Carolina yesterday. As far as we know, North Carolina is the first government in the world to make web 2.0 records available to the public in this type of extremely searchable, highly interactive fashion. I say "interactive" in reference to the fact that the records look and behave like the original social network. For example, you can expand comments…
Really cool Anil! I can see this dramatically reducing the time it takes and the costs incurred for a government's response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Re: Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
#4Some background: We launched this archive with the State of North Carolina yesterday. As far as we know, North Carolina is the first government in the world to make web 2.0 records available to the public in this type of extremely searchable, highly interactive fashion. I say "interactive" in reference to the fact that the records look and behave like the original social network. For example, you can expand comments…
Really cool Anil! I can see this dramatically reducing the time it takes and the costs incurred for a government's response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
I appreciate it, and you are exactly right. Most governments take anywhere between two to 10 days to even acknowledge a FOIA request. If they are doing anything about social media, then they have to scour through folders of screenshots to find the "record".
Re: Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
#5Congrats Anil! We're excited for ArchiveSocial's progress!
Re: Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
#6Some background: We launched this archive with the State of North Carolina yesterday. As far as we know, North Carolina is the first government in the world to make web 2.0 records available to the public in this type of extremely searchable, highly interactive fashion. I say "interactive" in reference to the fact that the records look and behave like the original social network. For example, you can expand comments…
Congrats, Anil!
Re: Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
#7It's easy to see the commercial value here. Saves time, saves tons of hassle, creates more transparency. Raises the question... why are so many people talking about "Trout Fishing" in North Carolina :)
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#8incredibly cool to see this live and makes you realize the market potential.
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#9great stuff, Anil!
Re: Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive
#10It's easy to see the commercial value here. Saves time, saves tons of hassle, creates more transparency. Raises the question... why are so many people talking about "Trout Fishing" in North Carolina :)
Ha, thanks for the comment. Funny seeing searches for "trout fishing" increasing on our realtime web analytics :) Speaking of which, we are pretty interested in things like trending topics so that you can see what citizens in a particular geography are discussing. This is a bit different -- and in many ways, more interesting -- than what Twitter does today in regards to trending topics based on location, because discussion on government social networking sites is actually about the region itself.