Category: Pandia top 5

The Web has changed shopping in a lot of ways. Easy access to an unprecedented amount of stores that will ship your purchase directly to me has made my Christmas shopping stress free. And it’s so much easier now to find gifts for those friends with really special interests. All of this is taken one huge step ahed with the Social Web. Social shopping is online shopping with networks of likeminded friends, commenting, sharing and recommendations. Here are Pandia’s top 5 social shopping sites.

How do you ensure that you will find your way back to a fascinating blog post, favorite song, hilarious video or fascinating blog? Bookmarking used to be the answer — first in the browser, then online to ensure access across computers and platforms. But the game is changing and in the future you might be [...]

The main reason Google rose to be the World’s most popular search engine is the quality of the search results. But the Web has evolved since Google was launched and so has Google. With these ten tips you can use Google to search new media or old sites in more advanced ways.

There are now a lot of music sites out there like Pandora.com and Last.fm that gather information about people’s taste in music. And they do not simply log what kid of bands or songs people search for, but how often each song is listened to and favorited and even which other songs and bands that are popular with people that like a certain artist or song. This way these sites can recommend music with a high degree of accuracy. But their search engines are not always great. Here are 3 great music recommendation engines, each with an innovative functionality and interface

Whether you are a business owner looking for information on your competition, a consumer wanting to make informed purchases or an information professional or journalist doing research, the call for transparency that has resulted from social media has led to a number of web sites where businesses share their info for free or where customers share their opinions. Here are 10 places to go to find info on all kinds of businesses and organisations.

To find what you need on the Web, your search engine of choice sifts through enormous amounts of information on your behalf and comes up with a list of search results. Now your job starts: To sift through the search results for the most reliable information. Depending on your query, this can include wading through not only irrelevant sites, but objectionable material of fraudulent sites. Here are three search engines that have solutions to this and some advice on information literacy.

I am a huge fan of online social bookmarking. My account on Delicious holds some 1800 bookmarks in categories from Annotation to Wiki — and I add new bookmarks on a daily basis. To be able to store links with comments in categories of my own choice is a simple yet powerful way to help me retrieve treasures I find online. But new tools are arriving that add functionality. Here are three interesting tools, each with its own take on bookmarking.

Social media of all kinds are a source of huge amounts of fresh information about news and events, likes and dislikes. But the signal-to-noice ratio is not good: Much, maybe most, of the material posted is personal and it can be hard to find the pertinent information. You need help to sift and sort the items, so why not try one of these five great real time search engines.