Meme Miner Potential
The original data source (Dejanews.com) is increasingly uncompetitive against RSS feeds, in granularity, popularity and latency. A new version is needed which accepts RSS feeds and maintains a historical database.
Possible development ideas:
- Note the upward spike of hype just prior to superbowl.
Do comparisons to previous events for last-minute adjustments of staff and food stocking. - Real-time company reputation management.
- Salary negotation tool for celebrities, agents and studios.
- Cheap alternative for estimating size & severity of flu epidemics.
- Feedback tool for effectiveness of advertising and political campaigns.
- Sell access to RSS historical data. One disadvantage of current search engines is their myopic focus on the present.
