Category: Social media

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.
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On PickySite you can start your own personal group, or corporate blog and share information, links, [...]

Google is preparing a new tool for web communication called Google Wave.It is in essence a combination of Google Mail and Google Docs, letting people collaborate on projects.

Scoopler is a brand new real-time search engine that aggregates and organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens. It indexes live updates from services like Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. I like Scoopler. It is easy to use and sufficiently powerful to be a useful tool for most information professionals eventhough it is not so advanced as to be intimidating to regular web searchers.

Twitter is to improve its search engine in a radical way. Pandia argues that Google and Twitter need each other.

Search engine Yauba gets help from its twitter friends to translate the site into French.

With the enormous amounts of information and the appalling signal to noice ratio on Twitter, good search tools are always welcome. How else would we get at the gems? Tweetzi is a Twitter search engine that is great for monitoring trends and following breaking news.

MicroPlaza is a personal web application that looks at your Twitter network and displays all the links shared by the people you follow. It also provides tools to search your friends’ tweets, filter information and watch Twitter trend topics.
With MicroPlaza, it is easy to catch the important information, even if you have a large network. The basic concept is capturing all tweets with links in them and clustering tweets that contain the same link.

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: