a toolkit for searching the social web
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My presentation for Online 2009TRANSCRIPT
A toolkit for searching the social web
Phil Bradleyhttp://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?
Surchur social search
Social bookmarking sites
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