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The Saorsa blog
Explainers and essays on what Saorsa is, how it’s different, and where social media goes next.
How to track events around the world in real time
The fastest way to follow a breaking event is to see the reports, the live data and the verification in one place. Here is how to do it well, and how Saorsa does the hard part for you.
ReadHow to track flights and ships (AIS) together
Aircraft and vessels broadcast their positions, but most tools show only one. Here is how ADS-B and AIS work, and how to see flights and ships on one map, with the weather and satellite context, in Saorsa.
ReadHow does live data change social media?
Social platforms are built on posts. Adding live data, satellite imagery, weather, flights and ships, changes what a feed can tell you: not just what people said, but what is actually happening. Here is how, with where each platform stands.
ReadHow will AI change social media?
So far AI in social media mostly means a better recommendation feed. The bigger change is AI that gathers, verifies and explains the real world. Here is what shifts, and how it compares to the platforms today.
ReadWhat is the next big social media?
Every era of social media reorganised the feed: around friends, then interests, then video. The next shift is toward the real world, where the unit is an event and the context is live data. Here is the case, with where today’s platforms fit.
ReadThe context you can only get from combining live data
Saorsa reads context from satellite imagery, weather, flights, ships and 150+ live sources at once, and puts it next to the conversation. That combined real-world picture is what sets it apart from a feed of posts.
ReadHow Saorsa is different from other social media
Other platforms are built around people, posts and virality. Saorsa is built around real events, where communities discuss live things together, surfaced because they are real and relevant rather than because they went viral.
ReadWhat is Saorsa? An AI-native social network for the real world
Saorsa (pronounced SOOR-SAH) is a social network organised around real events, not posts. Communities discuss live events, places and changes in the world on one page, next to the data that explains them.
ReadHow do you pronounce Saorsa? (It’s “SOOR-SAH”)
Saorsa is pronounced “SOOR-SAH”, two syllables with the stress on the first. It’s the Scottish Gaelic word for freedom. Here’s where the name comes from and why we chose it.
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