Trend detection service received $ 3.5 million
Startup BuzzFeed received $ 3.5 million in the first round of venture financing. This is a very interesting service that specializes in identifying trends that may become relevant in the near future. That is, these are the "viral" things that come from the Internet, and information is passed from mouth to mouth - this is a kind of "essence of pop music" that has a powerful potential impact on the masses.
The popularity of content is determined by programmatic methods, and the staff of editors works on the site. They filter a lot of information on the Web and determine things that really cause a stormy reaction from the public - how stupid these things didn’t seem today. For example, a new book with images of the largest penises in people, or photos of tattoos of a school teacher who had sex with her students (these tattoos are now being tried as evidence). Strangely enough, but such events cause the greatest excitement in people that BuzzFeed professionals calmly record. They process content from YouTube and other UGC sites, and also scan the blogosphere.
Information on current trends is collected in the fields of culture, politics, fashion, music, science and technology. For example, in the technology section, the news about the Inbox Victory site is now leading, where photos of people who managed to read all the letters in their inbox and gather the counter in the Inbox folder are collected.
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The popularity of content is determined by programmatic methods, and the staff of editors works on the site. They filter a lot of information on the Web and determine things that really cause a stormy reaction from the public - how stupid these things didn’t seem today. For example, a new book with images of the largest penises in people, or photos of tattoos of a school teacher who had sex with her students (these tattoos are now being tried as evidence). Strangely enough, but such events cause the greatest excitement in people that BuzzFeed professionals calmly record. They process content from YouTube and other UGC sites, and also scan the blogosphere.
Information on current trends is collected in the fields of culture, politics, fashion, music, science and technology. For example, in the technology section, the news about the Inbox Victory site is now leading, where photos of people who managed to read all the letters in their inbox and gather the counter in the Inbox folder are collected.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/28784/
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