As the child of TweetMeme, one of the most successful search and aggregation frontends to Twitter, DataSift aims to power sophisticated search, filtering, and analytics for applications.
DataSift moved its headquarters from the United Kingdom to San Francisco earlier this month and hired a new CEO, Rob Bailey. Founder Nick Halstead, also founder of TweetMeme, continues to serve as chief technology officer of the firm, which operates TweetMeme as a subsidiary. Where TweetMeme is a consumer website, DataSift calls itself as a platform-as-a-service company--that is, a cloud computing service for building applications.
DataSift has partnered with Lexalytics for sentiment analysis and Klout for influence scores. Meanwhile, the all-important partnership with Twitter was cemented when TweetMeme assisted Twitter with the creation of a Tweet button, modeled on the TweetMeme retweet button.
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