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People have been whispering about a new web application in development called Hunch. Today, Flickr co-founder and Hunch head honcho Caterina Fake divulged some more details about the new project on her blog.

The new project aims to become a site that can help anyone make a decision about anything. The way it will do this is through the application of decision trees that are created by contributing users. Using decision trees in expert systems is nothing new, but applying that idea to a crowdsourcing model might possibly be a stroke of genius. Think Aardvark meets Wikipedia and you start to get the idea. Read the rest of this entry »

Nielsen’s five fastest-growing community sites in the U.S.

(Credit: Nielsen)

A small new survey from Nielsen about the five fastest growing “member community destinations” in the U.S. reveals what we all kind of knew already: Twitter is at the top. From February 2008 to February 2009, …

As many may know by now, Twitter is experiencing the largest percentage growth out of any social networking medium right now along with a boatload of Twitter applications surging onto the internet.  Twitter is being used for many reasons being marketing, business or just local gatherings of like minded people.  Being a broadcast medium, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams explains how Twitter is being implemented right now as well as it’s original intent.

Here at Nets Big Thing, we’ve compiled a list of the top Twitter user tools websites on the internet that will help you make better use of the massive social growth of Twitter!  These twitter tools will no doubt make your twitting life a whole lot easier!

1. Ever wonder who YOU are following you on twitter but don’t follow you back? Or do you ever wonder who is following YOU that you are not following back?  FriendorFollow will help you sort things out and save you tons of time.

Find out who ISN'T following you

2. Do you hate clicking on Twitter links and want a threaded Twitter timeline? Tweetree allows you to see your account in threaded mode which means you’ll be able to follow who replied to what you wrote and on top of that it will parse Youtube videos, Twitpic, flickr and other popular website media without you having to click on an external link.

An easier Twitter

twitter search – twitter search is a simple yet powerful tool for finding out who is tweeting about your interests.  Just type in a word or phrase you want to see and twitter search will show you a list of people who have tweeted.

Twittervision – twittervision is a website that simply displays a visual map of people who are tweeting.  Visual representation of things tend to give the viewer a better grasp of how things are and twittervision attempts to accomplish this.

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