News Search App Allows iPhone-Wielding Citizens to Monitor Government Officials
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Tuesday, 07 July 09 - 08:02 PM (GMT -06:00) By John C Thomson in Blogging |
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News Search App Allows iPhone-Wielding Citizens to Monitor Government Officials
Search technology previously available only to the U.S. government and major corporations has been ported to the iPhone. The first application focuses on political news and allows citizens to keep track of U.S. politicians by producing highly relevant, targeted news articles about the elected official.
Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 7, 2009 -- pTracker, LLC today announced the launch of "politicoTracker", a News Discovery Tool for the iPhone that lets users find relevant, real-time news about most U.S. federal, state, and local elected officials. This app employs advanced object-based search technology that additionally allows the user to instantly cross-search, or "group" political news into various topics, efficiently highlighting relationships between the politician and other interests.
This ability to drill down and cross-reference news search results is known as "news discovery", as it allows users to discover facts that they would not have known to look for otherwise. politicoTracker is the only app for the iPhone to use this patent-pending technology, but is only the first of several apps pTracker intends to develop for mobile device users, with each app focused on a particular subject.
politicoTracker ships with a comprehensive database of U.S. Members of Congress (Senators and Representatives), and Executive Elected Officials and Cabinet Members, plus State Senators, Congressmen, Councilmen, and Governors - over 6600 names in all. Users can filter the list to quickly select a specific person, or use the "Favorites" feature for "3 taps to get results" access to the politician's news.
politicoTracker allows users to answer questions such as these (presented with recent examples):
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… and many others that would take an inordinate amount of time to research with a traditional search engine.
Although the latest electoral season has passed, pTracker still sees a public interest in easily following what our political leaders are up to. "Given the growing importance of government in our economy and in our businesses, it is more important than ever to be able to easily cross-search for our elected officials against various industries, issues, and organizations," says Erwin Mazariegos, founder of pTracker. "We are pleased to be able to bring this capability to the mobile mass market, and we are very excited about our future products as well."
pTracker licensed the core search technology from Llesiant Inc, also based in Austin. Llesiant's object-based search technology is fundamentally different from traditional text-based search engines. When Llesiant's system receives and processes incoming news articles, it tags (or creates "meta-data") about every "object" it finds within the article. Then when a user later conducts a search for one of those objects (in this case, a particular politician), this meta-data is used to find only those articles that reference that specific person. The outcome is highly-targeted, relevant results without the off-topic links of a traditional text-based search engine. And because most news articles will contain references to more than one thing (or object), cross-searches on multiple meta-data are likewise extremely fast and accurate.
Llesiant's technology is currently in use by U.S. lawmakers, senatorial and congressional committees and offices, and Fortune 500 corporations and major law firms. The news sources include over 25,000 global publications, so a wide array of journalistic and cultural perspectives are available. Because live news streams are processed on an ongoing basis, results are available to politicoTracker users in real-time.
For more information, including app screenshots and a free sample search, please visit www.politicoTracker.com. The "politicoTracker" app runs on any iPhone or iPod Touch and is available now at Apple's App Store at this iTunes link. A politicoTracker Twitter Edition app is also available. Both apps have received positive independent reviews by Macworld, AppCraver, and 148Apps, with other sites pending. Details at the web site
About pTracker, LLC:
pTracker is an Austin, TX, based provider of applications for mobile devices. pTracker is among the first to bring next-generation search technology to the iPhone platform. pTracker's first products, "politicoTracker" and "politicoTracker Twitter Edition" are focused on politicians and run on Apple's iPhone devices. Future products will enable news discovery in other areas of interest, and on other mobile device platforms.
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Preclick® Releases Free Trial of its Popular PhotoMovieMaker™ Software
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Thursday, 25 September 08 - 09:35 AM (GMT -06:00) By John C Thomson in Blogging |
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The Easiest Way to Make and Share Photo Movies and Screen Savers Using Digital Photos.
With PhotoMovieMaker, Preclick continues its focus on providing users with powerful, but easy to use software that allows them to share and enjoy their photos.
Atlantic Highlands, NJ (PRWEB) September 26, 2008 -- Preclick Corporation (www.preclick.com), America's #1 maker of retail photo software, announced the immediate availability of an update to its PhotoMovieMaker software. A free version is available with most features enabled. A paid upgrade adds the ability to create photo movies for the Web and burning to DVDs.
"PhotoMovieMaker allows even novice computer users to create gorgeous photo movies that they can share with friends and family, view as screen savers, upload to the web, or burn to DVD" said Peter Westerman, Preclick's Vice President of Marketing. "With PhotoMovieMaker, Preclick continues its focus on providing users with powerful, but easy to use software that allows them to share and enjoy their photos."
PhotoMovieMaker runs as a stand-alone application, and optionally integrates with Preclick's widely used photo manager software.
Users can download free trial versions of PhotoMovieMaker at: http://www.photomoviemaker.com/prweb092008/.
Features include:
- Create slideshows and use them as screen savers
- Share photo movies in e-mail
- Turn photo movies into files that can be posted to a blog or website.
- Easily burn photo movies with music to CD or DVD to play on a DVD player
Preclick PhotoMovieMaker runs as a standalone application, and is also available with features that compliment Hewlett Packard Photosmart Essential 3.5 and Wal-Mart Digital Photo Manager.
Retailers and OEMs interested in PhotoMovieMaker should contact bizdev @ preclick.com.
About Preclick
Preclick (www.preclick.com), the photo lifetime software company, builds software in 22 languages for Hewlett Packard, Wal-Mart, Costco, 3M, SanDisk, and other retailers that together capture more than 60% of US retail photo revenue. Preclick's award-winning photo software provides digital camera owners the fastest and easiest way to organize, print, share and preserve photos. Preclick retail partners offer custom versions of the Preclick Photo Organizer software free to their customers to help them more fully enjoy their digital cameras - and drive revenue from prints and photo products.
Contact
Preclick Corporation
Peter Westerman, 609-921-2903
bizdev @ preclick.com
Preclick and PhotoMovieMaker are registered trademarks of Preclick Corporation. Wal-Mart is a registered service mark of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Hewlett Packard is a registered trademark of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
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Calling from the Moon??
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Friday, 21 September 07 - 09:16 AM (GMT -06:00) By John C Thomson in Blogging |
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Online Cell Phone Superstore YouNeverCall has added an additional prize to Google's recently announced prize for landing a spacecraft on the Moon. YouNeverCall offers $10,000 to the first company to successfully place a cellular phone call from the moon. 2007-09-21
Viral Buzz Takes Blogger frsom 30 to 32,000 Visitors
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Friday, 02 March 07 - 03:09 PM (GMT -06:00) By John C Thomson in Blogging |
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Viral Buzz Takes Blogger from 30 to 32,000 Visitors and a Two-Book Contract
Blogger stages a two-month viral campaign to get a book contract and now reveals his marketing techniques to other professionals.
(PRWeb) March 2, 2007 -- How did a new blogger go from 10 readers a day to being featured on Slashdot, a story in the New York Times and a two-book deal in just two months?
The Blog Squad(tm) will reveal the steps behind this viral marketing campaign when they interview Gregory K. Pincus on Tuesday, March 6 at 8 p.m. EST on a public teleseminar open to anyone who registers.
As anyone who has started blogging knows, it's not easy to get big traffic numbers in just two months. Greg Pincus used a system of viral marketing to create buzz for his blog. He got people interested in submitting poems using a series of numbers known as the Fibonacci sequence.
Readers were intrigued, passed the idea around to their friends, who wrote and submitted their poems. Greg's blog got the attention of Slashdot, a heavily trafficked blog that gives "news for nerds, stuff that matters." The number of visitors to Greg's blog at
After that, he was featured in a New York Times interview with his photo, and book publishers started contacting him. Greg is a screenwriter and children's book author. The poems were something he writes as a hobby, and because of his popularity as evidenced by all the traffic and buzz on his blog, he will now publish a novel that includes some of his Fibonacci poems.
"I started blogging on February 21, 2006 to join the children's literature community online as an experiment with harnessing the connective power of blogs," says Pincus. "Little did I know that a two-book deal would result after only two months."
"Greg started blogging the smart way," adds Denise Wakeman, blogging expert and one-half of the Blog Squad team. "He knew he needed traffic to his blog to really leverage the power of online marketing, and set out to recruit readers through use of a viral gimmick."
How he did that, and how other bloggers can replicate a viral campaign for their own businesses and blogs is the purpose of the teleseminar, "32,000 Readers and a 2-Book Deal: How to Launch and Profit from a Viral Blogging Campaign." For more information and to register visit
Known as The Blog Squad, Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff, Psy.D.,
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