Kurrently - A real-time search engine for Facebook and Twitter. for Windows - Seesmic Seesmic has been acquired by HootSuite and as of March 2013, the Seesmic website is no longer supported. But HootSuite welcomes all Seesmic users into our nest! Here’s how you can start using HootSuite today. Making the transition to HootSuite: Getting started is easy. What this means to Seesmic users: Like Seesmic, HootSuite offers a suite of social media management tools for business, with even more options for SMB and enterprise customers. To get a clearer picture of what this means to users, we have prepared a comparison chart that will help you choose the right solution for you. Outils pour Twitter - www.erasme.org quelques outils indispensable pour tirer le meilleur de Twitter Bien que Twitter soit encore peu connu et utilisé en France, il connait une véritable explosion outre manche et outre atlantique, et des usages de plus en plus intéressants en sont faits. (Voir aussi pour débuter l’article Premiers pas sur Twitter) Chaque semaine voit l’apparition de nouveaux outils qui exploitent les possibilités des API Twitter pour rendre plus facile son utilisation. En voici quelques uns qui me sont devenus indispensables : splitweet : pour suivre et poster dans plusieurs comptes Splitweet vous permet de gérer plusieurs comptes twitter, de poster dans ces différents comptes sans avoir à vous reloguer, de voir l’ensemble des personnes que vous suivez dans vos différents comptes d’identifier clairement les réponses qui vous sont adressées idem pour les messages directes. de suivre des mots clefs : tous les twitts qui les mentionneront apparaitront. Twitterfeed : pour alimenter Twitter par des flux RSS
How to Use Blekko to Rock at Your Job The author of the web's first worm-virus, teamed with a man who dresses as a medieval warrior and goes to battle on the weekends and a woman who follows World of Warcraft, acupuncture and ballet, have raised $24 million dollars to storm the gates of the Google Castle. They got incredible press coverage when their new search engine, called Blekko, launched this week - but they are probably going to get slaughtered. In the meantime, they have provided an opportunity for countless other freaks and geeks to use the magical tool they've built to grow our stature wherever we work; to cut through information overload, to shine a bright light on opportunities and to augment our minds with the snap of a finger. Read on for my advice about how to use Blekko and we'll use it well - for as long as it lasts. Blekko CEO Rich Skrenata, photo by Robert Scoble What is Blekko? Blekko was the name of company CEO Rich Skrenta's first networked computer. What have these people built? It's awesome. Quick tips:
The Reveal: Killer Apps for A Successful Twitter Network (Pt.2) I hope you’ve already embarked on a Twitter-search journey since the clickable chart. If not, then hopefully this post could prompt you to actually utilize some of them, as we’ll be digging a little deeper into these Killer Apps. Let The FUN Begins!Take a look at the overall structures of each application, what can you conclude from it? **Click the image for Enlarged Version** Obviously, there’s no such thing as the PERFECT Search App ! Up Close & Personal, With The Apps…Let me pre-warn you, there is no ‘definite’ answer of which is the best app to be used. ~Click here for enlarged image. Cautions: You should always be careful whenever a site is requesting you to login via Twitter username/password. Meet The Killer Apps! People & Keyword Search1. Score: 4/5 Specialty: -Ease to use with (almost the best) real-time results. 2. Score:2/5 Specialty:-Nice sky-blue background (for those who’s fed up with plain white backgrounds). Score: 3/5 Search People On Twitter 4. Score: 4/5 Location Search6.
iVideotweet : post et partage de vidéos depuis son mobile 3G sur Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search An extraordinary day of breaking news on Thursday led to record-breaking traffic spikes as people searched online for information about the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and, especially, Michael Jackson. And just like their counterparts in traditional media, the news divisions of Google, Yahoo, and Bing responded with sometimes extraordinary measures to ensure they were giving searchers the most accurate and current news available. Below, a look not only at the extreme traffic spikes that took place, but also an insider’s look at what happened as each search engine — and Wikipedia — grappled with the demands of a nearly unprecedented surge of interest in the day’s breaking news. Google: “An all-hands-on-deck moment” “Thursday was a pretty out-of-the-ordinary day.” The rush of traffic was so severe that Google initially thought it was under attack. Google hasn’t said yet how Thursday’s traffic compares to other important news events. Thursday was a record-breaking day for Yahoo.
FrontPage Use PHP to build a Twitter-like system on your site If you've been paying any attention at all, you know that Twitter is one of the biggest sensations in the Web 2.0 world. For those who don't know, Twitter (a service available at Twitter.com) is a simple microblogging service that allows users to make posts (called tweets) of up to 140 characters that answer the question "What are you doing now?" Users can follow people they find interesting and have followers of their own. In this way, information can be published to a small following or disseminated far and wide. A quick glance at any single Twitter account reveals that users typically produce tweets on a wide variety of subject matter, from the everyday (for example, "I'm having a sandwich") to the more sublime. Often, there are embedded links to images, media files, and blog postings. Many other sites and services, such as LinkedIn and Facebook, now allow their users to update their current status in a decidedly Twitter-like way. Designing the back end of the application Listing 1.
LocaFollow - Locate and follow twitter users searching in their Bio and Location fields