a toolkit for searching the social web

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?

Icerocket’s ‘Big Buzz’

Mahalo

Collecta

Surchur real time board

Surchur social search

OneRiot

Socialmention

Scoopler

Addict-o-matic

Social bookmarking sites

Digg

StumbleUpon

Diigo

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