Dec 07 2008

Sunday fun: TechCrunch marketplace

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Looking to burn some time, and perhaps see how worthwhile the "wisdom of the crowds" opinions are? Checkout the TechCrunch marketplace (http://techcrunch.askmarkets.com/), powered by askmarkets.

 


Should be interesting to search and see who might be on there way to the tech deadpool.

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Dec 06 2008

Tracking your individual reputation

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The Saturday quick hit is myON-ID people search (http://www.myonid.co.uk/), a search engine that mines the web and social networking sites to discover what sites are saying about you. Simply type in your name, and the system searches its index for any mentions (you'll need to try different variations of your name ... Larry, Lawrence ... and I'm not quite sure how it handles all of the "John Smiths" out there) of your name, categorizing the results in tabs (Social Media, Social Networks, Web and Media).

This site is still under development, but it could develop into a nice tool to track individuals and their public profiles on the web. 

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Oct 23 2008

Track and Analyze News With Silobreaker

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Overwhelmed by Google Alerts, or other free online current awareness services? Take a look at Silobreaker (www.silobreaker.com), a service that pulls information from blogs, news, media, fact sheets, reports and other sources, categorizes and visualizes the results to help you better understand your query. Silobreaker allows searching by keywords, and also allows you to narrow down to a specific company query as well. Search results include a map visualizing related terms to your query (image below was a search on Monsanto), plus a sidebar with people, companies, key phrases, organizations, industries, cities and countries related to the query. Quotes and related documents occupy a prominent place on the search results page, allowing you to quickly jump to additional articles. 
Silobreaker also allows you to perform "network search" (identify relationships), "hot spots search" (auto mapping of news results) , "trends search" (chart media attention to a topic) as well as allowing advanced filtering to improve the results of a search.
news monitoring
Overall, I like Silobreaker, It can certainly help anyone needing to monitor companies or industries, and the price is right (free). I'm also interested in some of their upcoming features, including news alerts ... it will be interesting to compare them against Google Alerts for relevancy. 

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