Erik Hersman

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    Erik Hersman

    SwiftRiver Throws a Lifeline to People Drowning in Information

    There's a problem that constantly plagues us in this day of information overload, and that is the ability to sift the stream of incoming information into the bits that are valuable from those that aren't. It's a tough issue that we've been working on at Ushahidi for a while now. Our solution is called SwiftRiver. SwiftRiver is a free and open-source intelligence platform that helps people curate and make sense of large amounts of information in a short amount of time. In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels such as SMS, email, Twitter and...

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    I guess that combining the fixed rules for audio, video, image and text will be significant, as are the "open" intuitive based rules that the user contributes.

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