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My presentation for Online 2009
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A toolkit for searching the social web
Phil Bradleyhttp://www.philb.com
Online Information 2009
What is the ‘social web’?
• “The Social Web is currently used to describe how people socialize or interact with each other throughout the World Wide Web.”– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_web
Social sites
• Facebook, Bebo, Myspace• Flickr, Ravelry • Ning, LinkedIn, Plaxo• Delicious, Digg, Reddit• Blogs, Twitter• Wikis, Zimbio, Squidoo• Slideshare, Authorstream
Social Search Engines
• Search Engines that search the social web
• Search Engines that are of themselves social
• Search Engines that search an element of the social web
Real Time Search
• Content that has been added to the web now?
• Content added in the past, but only just found?
• Real Time updating as you search
• Resources themselves or popular links?
Trends
• Trending topics, defined as ...?
Enough!
So just Google it?
Just Bing it perhaps?
Icerocket’s ‘Big Buzz’
Mahalo
Collecta
Surchur real time board
Surchur social search
OneRiot
Socialmention
Scoopler
Social bookmarking sites
Digg
StumbleUpon
Diigo
Thank you!
For more information
• My site at http://www.philb.com
• Which search engine when? http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
• My search engine blog at http://www.philbradley.typepad.com