SETU Software Systems, a startup incubated in IIIT-Hyderabad, has launched Veooz that aggregates and analyzes topics including people, places, products, movies, events, brands and more from social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, among others. Features Users can login to the app using their Twitter or Facebook user accounts. However, we found that there's no way to link both user accounts if one logs in using their Twitter account. One can link both accounts if they log-in using their Facebook account. Users can either follow trending topics or search anything from people, places, products, movies, events, brands, among others. Veooz displays a collections of recent tweets, influential tweets, a comment either from Facebook or blogs that might influence users, and general sentiment about the topic - in terms of positive or negative. It should be noted that the app only considers positive or negative comments and ignores neutral comments. Currently, it's not clear as to how Veooz calculates the sentiments as when we submitted a query for "Samsung Galaxy S3" it returned with a 51% negative sentiment, however, most the tweets including real time and influential were generally positive. Users can also follow a topic via email where Veooz will update users on the topic once every week. However, since we had already linked our Facebook account to the app, we expected the app to just use the email address linked to our Facebook account and not ask for our email address again. We also did not find the website aggregating data…
