I attended the launch of the latest social aggregation website on the scene last night. It’s a website with leaderboards of the most prominent celebrities being followed in the social space.
Drew Thomson, Chief Executive Officer, All The Worlds Entertainment, bringing guests through the starcount website.
Who is the most popular artiste in the world today?
No prizes for guessing that it’s Lady Gaga, who happened to be performing live in Singapore at that time – almost directly above the venue for the launch of starcount at Pangaea in Marina Bay Sands.
starcount mines the opinions and sentiments expressed in these 11 social networks:
- Renren
- Tencent Weibo
- Sina Weibo
- YouTube
- Youku
- mixi
- Vkontakte
- Google+
- Orkut
5 of these 11 websites are from Asia, in China and Japan.
But which is the most popular football (as in soccer) club in the world?
There were equally riotous calls for Manchester United and Barcelona among the guests at the launch event.
Well, starcount says it’s Barcelona FC.
The starcount website is all about popularity.
It crawls the top 11 social networks on the Internet everyday to mine what 1.5million people are saying and sharing about celebrities or things (from sports clubs to musical instruments).
Based on the amount of buzz in the social space, each celeb is allocated a starcount score which is used in ranking them in all manners of leaderboards that users of the website can view.
There are preset leaderboards in the usual categories (such as best films, most popular singers) for users to browse, or they can create their own charts (such as who serves the best macaroons in Tanzania).
