Tracking online conversations with Yahoo Pipes

Tracking Online Conversations WithYahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Some places to track

Some places to track • Twitter: search.twitter.com “-from:twitterhandle” (no tweets from that handle)

Some places to track • Twitter: search.twitter.com “-from:twitterhandle” (no tweets from that handle) • Blogs: blogsearch.google.com or twingly.com Inbound links: “link:URL”

Some places to track • Twitter: search.twitter.com “-from:twitterhandle” (no tweets from that handle) • Blogs: blogsearch.google.com or twingly.com Inbound links: “link:URL” • Web: googlealert.com

Some places to track • Twitter: search.twitter.com “-from:twitterhandle” (no tweets from that handle) • Blogs: blogsearch.google.com or twingly.com Inbound links: “link:URL” • Web: googlealert.com • News: news.google.com

Some places to track • Twitter: search.twitter.com “-from:twitterhandle” (no tweets from that handle) • Blogs: blogsearch.google.com or twingly.com Inbound links: “link:URL” • Web: googlealert.com • News: news.google.com • Youtube: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos? orderby=updated&vq=mapreduce

Some places to track • Twitter: search.twitter.com “-from:twitterhandle” (no tweets from that handle) • Blogs: blogsearch.google.com or twingly.com Inbound links: “link:URL” • Web: googlealert.com • News: news.google.com • Youtube: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos? orderby=updated&vq=mapreduce • Social bookmarks:

Some places to track • Twitter: search.twitter.com “-from:twitterhandle” (no tweets from that handle) • Blogs: blogsearch.google.com or twingly.com Inbound links: “link:URL” • Web: googlealert.com • News: news.google.com • Youtube: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos? orderby=updated&vq=mapreduce • Social bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/NameOfTheTag

Some places to track • Twitter: search.twitter.com “-from:twitterhandle” (no tweets from that handle) • Blogs: blogsearch.google.com or twingly.com Inbound links: “link:URL” • Web: googlealert.com • News: news.google.com • Youtube: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos? orderby=updated&vq=mapreduce • Social bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/NameOfTheTag http://del.icio.us/rss/UserID

Howallto monitor this in one simple step & for free

1 Set up a Yahoo Pipes Account at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Pipes is a tool to aggregate, manipulate, & mashup content from around the web

Step1: Drag Fetch Feed module on workspace Pipes is a tool to aggregate, manipulate, & mashup content from around the web

Step1: Drag Fetch Feed module on workspace Step2: Add URLs of the sites you want to monitor Pipes is a tool to aggregate, manipulate, & mashup content from around the web

Step1: Drag Fetch Feed module on workspace Step2: Add URLs of the sites you want to monitor Step3: Connect pipes Pipes is a tool to aggregate, manipulate, & mashup content from around the web

Step1: Drag Fetch Feed module on workspace Step2: Add URLs of the sites you want to monitor Step3: Connect pipes Step4: Run pipe & sub- scribe to RSS feed Pipes is a tool to aggregate, manipulate, & mashup content from around the web

2 Get the URL for the search feeds

Twitter Search tips: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-search-twitter-the-advanced-guide/8034/

Google Blog Search

Google Blog Search: Inbound links

Web Search: Google Alert

Search of News Sites: Google News

Search of Youtube: Replace ‘mapreduce’ with keyword you are tracking feed://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?orderby=updated&vq=mapreduce => feed://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?orderby=updated&vq=sxsw

Search of Delicious Bookmarks: To see who tagged/bookmarked sited with SXSW http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/NameOfTheTag => http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/SXSW

Copy Feed URLs into the Pipe’s Feed Fetch Module

Be sure to grab the RSS feed for each

Click + to add a new URL Be sure to grab the RSS feed for each

Basic Pipe: Fetch info, sort it, show it One feed for a number of searches

Step1: Drag Sort Operator on workspace Step2: Sort by pubDate in descending order Step3: Connect pipes by connecting the dots Basic Pipe: Fetch info, sort it, show it One feed for a number of searches

Save your pipe & give it a name

Run your pipe

Get the RSS feed for the pipe & add to your RSS reader

Pipe Output as viewed from Bloglines Feed Reader

Voilà ! 7 searches updated automatically in one single feed

Credits: Dr. Corinne Weisgerber St. Edward’s University Blog: http://socialmediaprclass.blogspot.com Email: corinnew@stedwards.edu Twitter: @corinnew Photo Credit on Title Slide: My Sideways World

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Tracking online conversations with Yahoo Pipes

by Corinne Weisgerber on Mar 22, 2009

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