Check your Saved Search Matches on the new Dashboard
Jul 11th
So you saved a few searches for the topics of your interest. What now?
The newly released Dashboard page provides an overview of query matches and allows you to drill down to individual sentiments. Click on a query title in the query table just beneath the graph and the graph will update itself with data for just that query. Select and click on a point in the graph, and we will open the Opinion River page populated with the sentiments we found for that query.
A few tips for setting up complex searches
Jun 26th
Most of the queries (or searches) you will be using in alerts or widgets will contain multiple words and search operators. Here is a list of definitions and rules that Cuesense supports.
A query contains several terms and phrases, combined via search operators.
Term A single word, e.g. Madrid Phrase Multiple words that have to appear together in text. Use quotes, e.g. “san francisco”
Combining terms and phrases By default, when you type multiple terms or phrases in a query, they are all required. In other words, the default operator is an ‘AND’. You can also type AND explicitly in the query, More >
Vertical Belt widget combines testimonials and user-generated photos
May 20th
A new Javascript widget has been added to currently available Flash-based Buzz and Slideshow testimonials widgets. We call it the Vertical Belt, since it rotates text and photo content vertically. The Vertical Belt widget is based on Javascript, integrates easily into any website and is just a few kilobytes large. Go to Account>Widgets and select “Add Jscript Widget” to generate the embed code for the widget.
Use the advanced opinion search parameters like “sentiment”, “valence”, and “from”/”to” when building your testimonials widget. You can try out your Quotes query on the Opinion River page before copying it into the Saved Search More >
Opinion Search extended with advanced sentiment search parameters
Apr 14th
Check out our new Advanced Opinion Search parameters “sentiment”, “valence”, and “from”/”to”. On Opinion River (formerly News River) click on “advanced search”. Here you have a choice of 8 sentiment dimensions such as “joy”, “sadness”, or “surprise”, two quality dimensions “positive” and “negative”, and two profanity filter dimensions “profane” and “unsafe”. We are using Plutchik’s color wheel in case you were wondering about the sentiment colors. The Sentiment Color Map and the Sentiment selection checkboxes are coordinated. When you click on a sentiment area in the map, the appropriate checkbox is selected too, and vice versa.
The “valence” search parameter represents More >
Profanity Filter added
Mar 3rd
If you want to remove all profane and otherwise unsafe words and idioms from your testimonials feed, use the recently released profanity filter when specifying the Search Query for your widgets. The Profanity Filter recognizes several thousand words and idioms that are considered racist, pornographic, and profane. In addition to the “profane” sentiment dimension, we also added the “unsafe” sentiment dimension to flag phrases that refer to sexuality, drug use, criminal activity and other potentially delicate topics. These two new dimensions work just like any other sentiment dimensions.
If you want to remove all profane and otherwise unsafe words and idioms More >
Email alerts and followed topics
Feb 10th
Have a list of keywords you want to monitor and track? Found an interesting topic on the News River and want to follow the conversation? We just added the ability to add keywords, follow topics and get email alerts.
To add an alert for a topic you found on the News River, click on the “follow” link in the topic bar. Choose the sources (it can be your own lists or preselected lists of top sources) and the frequency and click save.
All followed topics can be managed on the Account>Alerts page. Click on the “I Follow” link on the News River’s More >
Slideshows just got better
Feb 7th
Check out the new slideshow widget features. You can now preselect photos and quotes you want to add to the widget and save you widget look-and-feel in Cuesense. Go to Account>Widgets and create a new slideshow. The Edit Photos and Edit Quotes links will be enabled when you choose the Preselected option on the widget front page.
Photos can be added from Flickr via tag search. You can also import an entire Flickr photoset. Choose a sensible photo size that you want to embed in your slideshow, as large photos will take longer to download. Generally, get the size that does More >
How to: start conversations
Jan 5th
So you just saw a movie and have something to say about it. Or you had an idea about a Kindle feature and need to share it with the world. What if someone you know (or, even better, you don’t know) had the same idea? If you follow a lot of tweeps or blogs, it’s often difficult to find the gold nuggets in the stream. We think Cuesense is good at starting conversations, because we crunch a lot of tweets and blogs and can generally figure out who is talking about what and how. And our busy text crunchers in More >