A toolkit for searching the social web

A toolkit for searching the social web
Phil Bradley
http://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

Addict-o-matic

Social bookmarking sites

StumbleUpon

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

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