Some 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.<p>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.
Great work Anil. I did a quick search on beer brewing (near and dear to my heart) and found great government information from legal quantity to some local resources. This site will be valuable if I ever develop a recipe that I will want to sell. Do yo have any plans to do cross search to set up a regional type archive. For example, if I wanted to sell my beer in adjoining states such as VA and SC.<p>-Esther
Hey Anil,
I read somewhere that the way ArchiveSocial does the archiving it somehow preserves that info so that it looks just like it did when originally posted on facebook, twitter or wherever. That's kinda hard to imagine. How does it maintain the look of the particular social media environment the content was posted in?<p>-Ron Clabo
Great stuff Anil! I think this nails the archival piece of social data. How can this be extended to use the archived data for insights i.e. run data mining algorithms (think SAS on social data). There are few players in that field but if both of these utilities can be coupled, this will be a powerful tool.
Very cool to see North Carolina lead the way in implementation of products like Archive Social.<p>Seems like an easy technology to build, but it doesn't look like your team has taken any short cuts.<p>Kudos
It'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 :)
This makes a lot of sense. It will be interesting to see if this has even more value during emergencies and severe weather when normal citizens have to pull their resources.<p>- Dave Hadden