Whilst Google Alerts provide a useful source for the latest items that are indexed by its search engine, to understand properly what is being discussed by your brand it is worthwhile investing in some detailed buzz tracking . It analyzes and reports on daily trends within the blogosphere. BoardTracker – A useful tool for scanning and tracking within forums. Commentful – This service watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts and similar content such as Flickr or Digg. FriendFeed Search – Scans all FriendFeed activity. Google Alerts –Daily or real-time

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Take ten minutes now to read the Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out . Facebook will evolve to compete both with Google and with other social networking sites. Twitter Delicious Digg Reddit Stumble ...Tags: The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.

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There were high hopes last week that Google Wave would provide an invigorating dip in the collaborative ocean - but by all accounts, an encounter with Wave is as likely to leave you winded on the beach , with your swimmies round your ankles. According to a new Ofcom survey, one in three British schoolchildren thinks search engines like Google rank sites by ‘ how true they are’. Welcome to our round-up of all that's new, controversial or just plain weird on the social media scene in the last few days. THE HEADLINES… The blogosphere was abuzz this week after the US Federal Trade Commission ordered Celebs and Bloggers to ‘fess up if they’ve been paid to plug - or face a whopping $11,000 fine.

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See the Digg-spy style Site Scout , for example. We wrote earlier this week that the big social news aggregator model (Digg, Yahoo! Related Resources If youre interested in the wacky world of wikis, heres an RSS feed of blog posts about wikis (filtered with FeedRinse to remove mentions of Jotspot just because thats going to clog the airwaves for the next 48 hours), heres a wonderful video explaining wikis in plain english from CommonCraft, and here is wiki consultant Stewart Maders great short video series 21 ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 28, 2008 10:22 AM / 6 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » Wikia , the independent commercial wiki site

It analyzes and reports on daily trends within the blogosphere. · BoardTracker – A useful tool for scanning and tracking within forums · Commentful – This service watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts and similar content such as Flickr or Digg · FriendFeed Search - Scans all FriendFeed activity · Google Alerts –Daily or real-time alerts emailed to you whenever a specific keyword (chosen by you) is mentioned · HowSociable? – A simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web. · Icerocket – Searches a variety of online services, including

Mike is a technical architect at Stamen Design - the group that did the Digg Labs data visualisations , and the Flickr Mappr tool , and the Adobe Kuler stuff , and the MySociety Travel Maps for Commuters … yeah, you get the idea. Vast”: data can cover an enormous surface area, think Google Maps “Deep”: Data. It’s the word on everyone’s lips and… err fingertips.

That would not only solve the problem of being able to contact members through the site (users would just utilize Facebooks system), but also might expand the userbase, which seems a bit tech-centric at the moment, more rapidly and allow for more meaningful matches. « Prior Post Next Post » Posted in Startups Subscribe Email This Print This Digg Share Comments Subscribe to comments for this post OR Subscribe to comments for all Read/WriteWeb