Bottlenose
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Keep up with the social web, visually!
Bottlenose provides a radical new way to see what's happening in real-time on the social web. Sonar shows you the live trending topics, people, and types of messages, and how they relate. Click to zoom in and explore. As you browse in Sonar, you see the related messages next to it. Leave it running and watch as Sonar updates live to show you the latest action.
Powerful filtering
Bottlenose knows how to find different types of messages, like news, opinions, videos, events, and more. Easily add filters to find exactly what you want.
Sonar does the reading for you
A radical new way to view your streams, Sonar gets you up to speed immediately. No more scrolling to catch up, no more hunting for messages that matter - Sonar instantly shows you the live trending topics, tags and people in any stream. You can even use Sonar on search results.
Social assistance saves you time
Bottlenose's smart assistants can suggest messages that are relevant to your interests, messages you might want to repost, messages by people you like, news by influencers, and much more. You can even use Assistants to automate tasks, like replying to messages, reposting, generating alerts, or routing them to email.
Bottlenose learns your interests
It's smart - it learns from what you do on social networks, and in Bottlenose as well. By learning your interests, Bottlenose can help you filter for messages that are more relevant to you.
Easily add streams
Quickly add different types of streams. Click to add streams for interests, people, lists, saved searches, smart assistants, and custom rules.
Create custom rules
Easily create sophisticated rules to find what you need, and automate actions. Just want to see relevant opinions about your brand by influencers? There's a rule for that. Just want to get alerted when someone you like mentions you? There's a rule for that too. The possibilities are endless.
A new way to view people
Click on any Twitter username, or just type one in, and Bottlenose analyzes them in real time. View Sonar to learn about their interests and expertise, their favorite topics, the people they mention, and what they're thinking about right now. View all their messages categorized by type, and even subscribe to follow any slice of their messages you want. Just want their tech news and not their foodspotting? Bottlenose makes it easy.
Author and post rich messages
You can author and post richer messages in Bottlenose and send them out to Twitter, Facebook, email, and soon many other types of streams. Bottlenose automatically adds semantic tags, and you can also add your own. These tags live in the Bottlenose network, and make it easier for others to find your messages. Want to post a classified ad, or announce a press conference, or share a review? Bottlenose recognizes dozens of different types of messages, and limitless numbers of topics. And you can post messages of any length - not just 140 characters; Bottlenose intelligently shortens them and links to the full version.
Personalized search
Do a search in Bottlenose and see results just from people you follow, or from everyone. And then use Sonar to make sense of the results.
Many ways to view your streams
You can view your streams in folders, or in columns. And more views are coming.
Want more Bottlenose?
Add plugins to extend your Bottlenose dashboard. Bottlenose's plugin framework supports Javascript and HTML5 plugins that install instantly. And if you're a developer wanting to write some insanely cool apps on the stream, we've done the heavy lifting to provide you with the richest platform to work with. Check out our Developer Program to learn more about extending Bottlenose.
