Author Archives: Therese

No Homophobes? Language matters.

Do you know the site nohomophobes.com? It’s a site that draws attention to the use of homophobic words by monitoring the use of 4 expressions: Faggot, Dyke, No Homo and So Gay. It was made by Institute for Sexual Minority … Continue reading

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New feature: Retro-style tag clouds

We’re introducing old school tag clouds to xiive.com, because we want to give you a great overview at a glance when you’re looking at a topic or a collection of topics. This feature looks at the last ~500 mentions of … Continue reading

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Visual Overview

As some of our beta users may have noticed, we have been trying out a new feature lately; it’s a wall of images and video about the topics – as shared on flickr, bing image and youtube. Imagine you go … Continue reading

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Celebrating 1 month and a new feature

100 years ago today, RMS Titanic sank – and one month ago we launched this site. To celebrate our first month in public beta, we are now publishing a new feature: Sentiment Analysis. Simply put, we are analyzing what is … Continue reading

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New feature: Star rating

When we launched 2 weeks ago, we introduced a new feature; Star rating. The feature is simple. We introduced a scale of 1-10 stars that a topic can get based on how many times a topic is mentioned. It’s a … Continue reading

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Bob the Tokay Gecko

This is the story about Bob the Tokay Gecko. You may or may not have met Bob when visiting us. I hope you haven’t met Bob because he only shows himself when we have a bug on the site. I … Continue reading

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Launch Day!

It could have been fun to launch on stage at the South by Southwest conference, but that was not possible, so we’re making lemonade and just launching during the SXSW conference. Going from the closed to open beta was made … Continue reading

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Sneak Peek into our new design

Xiive needs a new look and a redesign of the front page is coming up! We have decided to add some life to the front page with our favorite pictures. So far we have made 18 versions of the front … Continue reading

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Plans for the future

It’s only the start of February, but you probably already forgot your New Year’s resolutions… or did you? We have used the weeks of the new year in a very productive way and have been working to make this site … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays!

Celebrating Christmas in Denmark these days and enjoying the great food and time with the family. The last few weeks since we opened up for beta test of xiive.com has been busy but great! I want to thank everyone who … Continue reading

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