- What is Headup?
- Headup is a blog widget that gives your audience immediate access to dynamic, contextual and social content complementing your own.
- Why should I put Headup on my site?
- Headup reduces bounce rates, increases time-spent-on-site and improves your visitors' experience by giving them access to content they're interested in without requiring them to leave your domain. Registering your widget enables you to configure it to drive traffic internally to related posts on your site.
- How do I add Headup to my site?
- Check out the installation instructions, select the type of widget that best suits your needs and proceed accordingly. If you encounter any difficulties please don't hesitate to contact us.
- How does Headup work?
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When a reader accesses a page on your site Headup scans it to identify and highlight the content's key topics. Headup marks the topics it identifies on the page with a dotted
orange underline. Hovering underlined topics launches Headup's sleek overlay interface revealing the related information Headup retrieved for the topic.
Headup draws the information it brings in from popular online sources in real-time guaranteeing your content remains fresh and up to date always regardless of when you wrote it.
Visit our Technology section to learn more about how we do it.
- How does Headup choose what topics to highlight?
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Headup elects which topics to highlight on any given page by performing a deep semantic analysis of the page's content in order to understand its true meaning.
The goal of the process is to discover and highlight, within the content's context, the topics readers will find to be the most interesting and useful.
To get a feeling for topics Headup will highlight on your content use our Entity Extraction Demo.
- What type of content does Headup display?
- Headup matches the content it displays to the context of the topic so the types of content displayed tend to vary from one topic to the next, however for most topics Headup will display the following data (at least):
- Summary – The encyclopedic entry for the topic drawn from Wikipedia or a similar source
- News – Related news, articles & posts drawn from popular news sources and customizable via registration to include your own sources as well
- Images – Related image from Flickr, Panoramio, Picasa, etc.
- Videos – Related videos from Youtube
- Real-time data – Topic related Tweets
- Related products from Amazon
- How does Headup know about the user's Facebook friends?
- When users select the Headup "Facebook" tab for the first time, they are asked to "Facebook Connect" with Headup. By performing Facebook Connect, users personalizes their Headup experience, and can see status updates, favorites, fan pages, groups, etc. of their friends which are related to the highlighted topic. For example, if the topic is a movie, the users can see which of their friends are fans of the movie. If the topic is a company, the users can see which of their friends work for that company, or have mentioned that company in their status updates.
- Why should I Facebook Connect Headup?
- Connecting Headup to your Facebook profile personalizes your Headup experience enabling you to how your friends' Status Updates, Favorites, Fan Pages, Groups, etc relate to the topics you're checking out.
- Where can I see Headup in action?
- Headup is active on thousands of blogs and websites. Check it out on:
- News
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JPost.com
- Film
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TheMovieBlog.com,
VaughnOnMovies.com,
HeyUGuys.co.uk,
- Celebrity
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HitDanBack.com,
J-Entonline.com,
- Tech
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RuhaniRabin.com,
JeffPulver.com,
- Personal
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Jewlicious.com
- Sports
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pwrshow.com
- I installed Headup but can't see any annotations. why?
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- Make sure you've read the Publisher Guidelines prior to installing our widget
- Depending on our server load it can take anything from 3 minutes to a couple of hours before you begin seeing annotations on your site
- Bear in mind we only analyze pages that receive visitor traffic
- Which languages does Headup support?
- At the moment we identify topics in English and perform best on English language sites. Headup supports non-English blogs too as long as names mentioned are identical to the English ones – i.e. New York, Angelina Jolie, Nokia, etc.
(see: Spanish, Norwegian)
- How do I select which topics are highlighted?
- Headup identifies which topics to mark automatically. You don't need to do anything. If you want to customize and tweak your implementation of the widget you're of course welcome to register for access to our publisher dashboard.
- What happened to the Headup FireFox Add-on?
- Our Firefox addon is available here.
- Who should I contact if I'm having any other issues?
- Visit our Contact Us page, Tweet us @headup or email support@headup.com.