Category: Pandia top 5

Social networking for Internet marketers

PickySite is a brand new social networking site for webmasters, internet marketers, web designers, web developers, and SEO experts. Along with PickySite’s editors, they write group and individual blogs and communicate with other members sharing the same goals.
How it works
On PickySite you can start your own personal group, or corporate blog and share information, links, [...]

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Posted on Thursday 18 June 2009
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5 problems Wolfram Alpha can solve for you

A week after the launch, Wolfram Alpha has announced it will soon pass 100 million queries. One reason for this is the fact that this new search engines doesn’t deliver search results like Google, Yahoo and the rest — it solvs problems.

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Posted on Wednesday 27 May 2009
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3 ways to find people on Twitter

Twitter search is better than it sed to be, but still, finding people on Twitter is not easy. Here are three ways to find the people you are looking for whether you are looking for old friends or you are looking to meet new people.

Twitter’s own people search lets you search for people you know by entering a first name, a last name or a username. I’ve never had any luck finding friends this way — it only really work with usernames and I haven’t had much luck guessing people’s usernames.

If you want to meet new people on Twitter who share your interests, Twitter suggests people you might want to follow (this tool is located behind the Find People link in the top menu). My tweets and Twitter friends all share the common themes of web search and digital learning. My top three suggestions are for cultural gossip from Los Angeles, the world’s third-largest steerable radio telescope and a girl called Allison who introdces herself like this: “hi there, i’m ali. i’m in a band called a fine frenzy. life is funny. let’s have a laugh”.

So I decided to go elswhere for Twitter people search. I found three interesting tools:

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Posted on Saturday 7 March 2009
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The 5 best online bookmarking services

You probably browse the web from home, at work and possibly on your smartphone. If you do, storing bookmarks in the browser can be annoying and counterproduvtive. You need an online bookmarking tool to have easy access to all your favorite web sites regardless of which device you use to get online. Here are Pandia’s top 5 social bookmarking services.

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Posted on Wednesday 4 March 2009
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Top 5 iPhone search apps

Search has gone mobile. Smart phones with large screens, decent keyboards, and wi-fi connection finally makes it fun to surf the web from a hand held device. But still, the browser window is rather small. Entering a query and browsing the search results in Safari is cumbersome. Web search apps make this easier and many of them integrate multiple search engines and services. I have tested iPhone web search applications and reviewd our five favorites.

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Top 20 social web sites

A list of the 20 most popular social networking web sites around.

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Posted on Wednesday 18 February 2009
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Top 5 Semantic Search Engines

Pandia reviews the best search engines on the web using semantic search technologies. “Semantic” is a word with a magic ring to it in search engine circles. The way it’s hyped makes you suspect it is the second coming of search. Hypes make me skeptical and I have been biding my time, waiting for the technology to mature. Now the time has come and I’m glad to present the top 5 semantic search engines.

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Posted on Monday 16 February 2009
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Why Google Latitude makes us cringe

Google launched Google Latitude this week. It is a service that lets you keep track of where your friends are by tracking the whereabouts of their mobile phones. Pandia feels a little queasy.
The Official Google Blog puts it this way:
“Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps on your mobile device. It’s also an iGoogle [...]

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Posted on Sunday 8 February 2009
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