Abstract: A computer-implemented method of selecting investments for an investor's portfolio is provided herein. The computer-implemented method includes the steps of: receiving data identifying one or more social-media accounts of the investor; extracting content from the one or more social-media account; generating semantic tags describing the content; identifying one or more market sectors, industries, or investments related to the content; and presenting a proposed portfolio containing the one or more market sectors, industries, or investments related to the content to the investor.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing an integrated social media and shopping environment is described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving via a computer a photographic image including at least one product, generating a computer-implemented model of the photographic image on the computer, training a machine learning estimator using the computer-implemented model, generating a set of social media tags corresponding to the at least one product based on the training, storing an association between the set of social media tags and the photographic image, and uploading the photographic image and the association to a social media platform.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a computer-implemented method of generating a topical media stream. The method includes: polling a plurality of Internet-accessible media sources for new publicly available content; storing the new publicly available content in a database along with metadata describing the content; selecting a subset of publicly available content stored in the database that is relevant to a topic; combining the selected subset with private content to form a topical media stream; and publishing the stream via the Internet.