Embed Evri’s Sentiment Widget
Check out our new sentiment widget. You can select your favorite topic to seed the widget. Then just select your blogging platform, or grab the code, and embed it onto your web site or blog. Your readers can then get an up to the minute assessment of how the web feels about your topic.
If your topic is Barack Obama, for example, your readers can see that 38% of the web feels positively about him, and 62% of the web is expressing negative sentiment about him. You can also see who Barack Obama’s top critics and praisers are, and then explore exactly what they are saying about the president. Play around with the drop down boxes to get different sentiment expressions found on the web and as always, please do send us your feedback.
On a final note, the Evri sentiment widget is built using our sentiment API which you can read all about in this blog post titled Sentiment API Exposes Web’s Feelings.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Sure doesn’t work for the two tech topics I tried, PayPal and App Store. Both are in the news right now but maybe 3 incidents of sentiment detected over the last 6 months? And 75% positive about the app store?
November 4th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Thanks Marshall for your feedback. We’re striving to achieve good results across a broad array of millions of topics and we do perform poorly in some cases. I agree the performance should be better on these two topics. We’ll see what the root problem here is and get some improvement soon.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
We’ll need to fine tune the areas where sentiment works best. I’ve been playing with lots of different examples today, and there is definitely potential. I was surprised to see the results for local Seattle politicians like Christine Gregoire and Greg Nickels were pretty good. Sports figures like Alex Rodriguez do OK. I think the best results are in politics: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Hamid Karzai, Gordon Brown, etc. I got some laughs looking at Lada Gaga.
But for products, like the Kindle, we don’t do so well. Unless 100% of people really love the Kindle.