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• TipTop Mobile Version
• TipTop Reader for the Web
• Windows Phone 7 TipTop Reader App
• Windows Phone 7 TipSweet App
• TipTop Search via SMS
• TipTop Social Media Web Widgets
• Seesmic Desktop 2 TipTop Reader Plugin
• Intel Netbook TipTop Buzz Window App
• Intel Netbook TipTop Sentiment Window App

Does TipTop search work on smart-phones like the iPhone, Windows Phone 7 or Blackberry?

Yes, TipTop has a smart-phone version you can visit at m.feeltiptop.com (or even the regular www.feeltiptop.com which will automatically redirect you to our mobile site) to enjoy your tips on the go.

For our mobile version, we are especially careful to cull the best few tips to show, and have optimized the most useful social search features (such as viewing social network personas, watching video & sharing hot topic & tip results from social media) for faster responses.

How does the TipTop Reader for the Web work?

The TipTop Reader, as featured on TipTop's hub page, semantically analyzes content feeds that come from pre-programed news channels. The concept cloud that appears displays the latest hot topics published in the news over the past five minutes.

The hot topics are color-coded (green:positive, red:negative, yellow:neutral) to highlight the sentiment associated with each topic during the given period of time. Rated by TipTop's analysis of the steaming news headlines a topic like 'Obama' may appear green one moment (illustrating that the majority of articles related to 'Obama' are of a positive nature) then the text may change to red after the cloud updates (showing that the sentiment in articles about the topic has now changed to negative).

Dig deeper into a topic of interest by clicking terms to see the related article headlines & sources below the cloud (click to read the articles in a new browser window). In addition, TipTop also displays a realtime social media dashboard to the right of the cloud highlighting 'Top Tipsters', sentiment trends & tips for the topic selected. Explore, share tips & have fun. You can learn more about the social search results by visiting TipTop's Search FAQs.

Personalized TipTop Readers for the Web are coming soon! In the meantime you can try the Seesmic Desktop 2 TipTop Reader Plugin to get summaries for your social networks or the Windows Phone 7 TipTop Reader App described below.

What can I do with the TipTop Reader app for Windows Phone 7?

The TipTop Reader for WP7 gives you a summary of the content in your feeds by sentiment, topic & time. You can quickly browse summary topics in the TipTop View, view articles in the Latest view, or read articles & search related content in the Browser view.

To get started, download from the Zune Marketplace & install the TipTop Reader app on your WP7 phone. Then login to your Google Reader (or any Google) account (if you have no feeds yet, follow the steps for adding one to Google Reader):

• Enter your Google Reader username & password. Depending on performanc needs, choose to view content with images 'on' or 'off'.
• If you have no feeds added to your Google Reader you will be prompted upon login to add a RSS feed. Enter a title for the feed. If you don't have an feed URL, the Yahoo Top Stories feed is added by default to your Google Reader account. To finish, confirm that you want this feed added by clicking "OK".
• TipTop View: Displays a semantic concept cloud summarizing your feeds. Text color code: Green topics -- overall positive; Red topics -- overall negative; Yellow topics -- neutral. Tapping the topics will display the related stories below the cloud. Tapping the article titles will open the web page in the 'Browser' view. 'Tap and Hold' the article title to select 'Related' topics or 'Open in new browser'. 'Related' will display recent tips about the article's main topics in the 'Browser' view. Select 'Open in a new browser' to read the article outside the TipTop Reader.
• Latest view: Displays the most recent 50 to 250 articles appearing at the top.
• Browser view: After selecting 'Related', TipTop tips are displayed for the topic. After tapping a snippet or article, the corresponding web page is displayed in the 'Browser' view.
• Settings options: Tapping "..." allows you to turn images 'on' or 'off' in 'settings, 'Add a feed' to your Google Reader account, or read 'about' TipTop.

The following software libraries were used in the development of the TipTop Reader app for WP7: Google Reader API ? C# Asynchronous Wrapper, Json.net, and Silverlight Toolkit.

Why should I use TipTop's TipSweet twitter app for Windows Phone 7?

The TipTop TipSweet app for WP7 gives you quick browsable summaries of your twitter feeds. This includes your home followers feed, Twitter lists, @mentions, messages, favorites, or #hashtags.

To get started download & install the TipSweet app on your WP7 phone from Zune Marketplace. Then login to your twitter account to see TipTop's semantic magic:

• TipTop View: provides a color coded semantic concept cloud summarizing tweets (home-followers, direct messages, favorites, @mentions, twitter lists). Tap topics to see message results below. Green topics will display positive tweets, red -- negative, yellow -- neutral or more factual snippets.
• Timeline view: a scrolable view of tweets by time.
• Tweet view: tapping a message will open it in the 'Tweet' view. From this view you can tap @ID & #hashtag topics to get related tips from TipTop search.
• Browser view: after tapping a url, @ID, or hashtag the TipTop results will appear in the Browser view.
• Button icons: home - twitter feed concept cloud; search -opens TipTop search, tweet -send a tweet; & @mentions -displays a 'TipTop View' of your messages.
• Settings "..." options: selecting direct 'messages', saved 'favorites' or twitter 'lists' will summarize these feeds in the 'TipTop View'. Tap 'profile' to see your twitter profile. Tap 'about' to get information about TipTop.

The following software libraries were used in the development of the Tipsweet app for WP7: Tweetsharp, Json.net, Silverlight Toolkit, and Coding4fun tools.

How does TipTop via SMS work?

Get TipTop^SM search results by using SMS text messaging on your cell phone. Use TipTop^SM via SMS to find out how people feel about anything currently published on twitter. Type in a query and get back the social sentiment as a percentage of Tips and piTs.
Here are the steps:

• Initiate a text message to DOTCOM (368266) on your cell phone.
• In the text box type, ftt.nu or feeltiptop.com followed by the query terms. For example, try typing "ftt.nu smart phone" (without the double quotes).
• Send the message.
• You will receive a SMS text message response similar to the example below: (1/1) Opinions about "smart phone" on Twitter are 38% positive Tips and 21% negative piTs FeelTipTop.com

Using TipTop via SMS is fun and you pay only for whatever your mobile phone carrier charges you for sending and receiving text messages.

How can I get TipTop social media sentiment trends & buzz topics
on my website?

You can embed the TipTop^SM Search Widget on your website to display real-time tips, buzz & sentiment trends for any current topic. Click here to try the TipTop Search Widgets. There are three types of widgets you can display on your website:

• The "Tips and piTs ratios" widget displays the percentage of Tips and piTs for the search term you enter on the widget.
• The "Concept Cloud" widget displays all the related concept terms related to the search term you enter on the widget.
• The "Top Tips and piTs" widget displays the top three Tip messages and the top three Pit messages for the search term you enter on the widget.

What does the TipTop Reader plugin for Seesmic Desktop 2 do?

The TipTop Reader for SD2 summarizes content from your social network streams & news feed aggregators by highlighting key topics & identifying the sentiment around them.
Here are the steps to simplify your social media experience:

• Go to Seesmic's website and download Seesmic Desktop 2.
• Once SD2 is open on your computer, download the TipTop Reader. After you have downloaded TipTop Reader & saved the plug-in in the folder 'Seesmic\Seesmic Desktop 2\Plugins' you will close & restart SD2.
• Open SD2 on your computer and click 'Options' (bottom left corner), follow the steps to 'Add a new account', like your your Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin social networks.
• To add RSS feeds like Google Reader, look for the SD2 'Accounts' tab, click 'Marketplace', search for 'Google Reader' and download the plugin. You will then see 'Google Reader' when you open 'Options' and look in the "Add a new account' section.
• To activate the TipTop Reader, right click on your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google Reader accounts and select an option show. Depending on your selection you will get the latest summary topics & sentiment from all social networks, individual accounts or a specific user's feeds.
• Filtering in the Semantic Summary Cloud window: If you selected 'TipTop summary for all your accounts' there is the option to 'Filter' by 'TimelineItem'. Check or un-check the respective account boxes along the top bar of the window and click 'Filter' on the right to refresh the topic cloud results. Note: the Semantic Summary Cloud window shows summary topics from the latest 200 messages, so there is a chance that one or more accounts will not appear as an option in the filter bar.
• To browse the results, click the colored-coded topics (green: overall positive, red: overall negative, yellow: neutral) in the semantic cloud to easily interact with specific messages, people & content sources that you are interested in.

How can I use TipTop's Sentiment Window app on Intel's Netbook?

TipTop's Sentiment Window application allows users to tune into how people feel about any current topic through historic trend or pie charts created from TipTop's semantic analysis of real-time conversations & click the search topic to see exactly what is being said at the moment.

Supported Operating Systems Windows 7 & Windows XP.

Visit Intel AppUp store to download the TipTop Sentiment Window app for free.

Why should I use TipTop's Buzz Window app on Intel's Netbook?

The TipTop Buzz Window app for Intel netbooks allows users to immediately get dynamic conversation summaries around any current topic in social media.

• Simply enter a topic to "Get Current Buzz",
• See the conversation cloud below, and
• Click the buzz terms to get related tips & trends from TipTop's search results.

Supported Operating Systems Windows 7 & Windows XP.

Visit Intel AppUp store to download the TipTop Buzz Window app for free.