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SwiftRiver saves you from drowning in information

January 15th, 2012 by David Bradley >> No Comments

SwiftRiver is an open-source system that apparently helps you get to the information you want and need quickly based on its importance and relevance rather than popularity and whether or not some organic tipping point or (worse) marketing twonk has made it go viral. Once the beta is released it will allow you to curate and make sense of large amounts of information in a short amount of time by filtering and verifying real-time data from SMS, email, Twitter and RSS feeds. AfroMusing (Juliana Rotich) co-founder of Ushahidi, which has created SwiftRiver, tells me the beta will be public in about two months.

Could be very useful for organizations that need to sort their data by their unique expectations of authority and accuracy as well as journalists, not-for-profits, community based-groups, charities, emergency responders, election monitoring groups, even marketing twonks.

SwiftRiver from Ushahidi.