Phil Talsky

Phil Talsky

Attensity
Phil Talsky joined Attensity in 26 and has held several roles in the product marketing organization here. He is currently the technical marketing manager, responsible for technical product deliverables supporting the field sales organization. Prior to joining Attensity, Phil has held product marketing and product management positions with several startups, including Aligo (acquired by Corrigo), Utopy and Baystone (acquired by Remedy).
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    Posted on 2010-04-05

    So, the iPad finally shipped (okay, it's only been six weeks since the announcement, but it feels much longer, doesn't it?)  So, as a follow up to my post-announcement analysis, I wanted to see how people felt after getting their hands on the real iPad for the last day and a half or so.  As usual, I used Attensity Cloud to pull 50,000 Tweets on the iPad, and ran them through Attensity Analyze to perform my analysis.  And, overall, I do have to say that the results are probably very pleasing for Apple.

    (For...

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    Posted on 2010-02-10

    Last week Apple announced one of the world's worst-kept secrets, the iPad.  Being the gadget freak that I am, of course I watched the announcement stream (amazingly, Apple didn't stream it directly, so I watched bootleg streams on another site).  I was actually surprised at how pedestrian the announcement was.  It really didn't seem up to the Apple standard.  It was low-key.

    And, of course I planned to do an analysis of what others think about the iPad using Attensity Cloud and Attensity Analyze to extract purchase intent, understand general sentiment and feature-level opinions.  But I went about it in a slightly different way...