“If you’re short on time the quick review is ‘It’s awful. Worse than I was expecting - Microsoft, what are you thinking?’”
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Bing launches. It’s awful.
June
An article originally posted on Phil Bradley's blog
In my opinion…
A non-event to me… I would always give preference to Exalead or Ask as an alternative to GG or Y!
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A Selection of Social Media Search Engines
November
An article originally posted on www.ariadne.ac.uk
“If a company doesn’t know what is being said about them, that doesn’t stop it being said; it just means that they are not in a position to contribute to or influence that discussion. Surely it becomes more, not less necessary to be aware of and to search this content - just to keep up to date, if nothing else.”
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In my opinion…
I would recommend to try Social Mention. I tried this with a few company names and it is a nice place to start monitoring things. Unfortunately, you can’t subscribe to RSS feeds that warn you when new content is available. Still you need to create feeds directly from sources like Delicious, Digg or Technorati and grab them all in a one place
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Web 2.0 in schools
May
An article originally posted on Phil Bradley's weblog
“The WebTools4u2use website is a wiki designed for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, and how they can be used in schools. It includes information on photo sharing, video tools, wikis, blogs, writing tools, presentations and so on. It’s a bright site, very informative, with sections describing the subject area, ‘5 to test drive’ and other examples.”
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In my opinion…
This very informative website contains all you need to know about web 2.0 tools in the education arena. The fact the coming generation is already getting used to these tools will definitely help make collaborative applications the next big thing in companies.
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Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page
May
An article originally posted on Phil Bradley's weblog
“Now, this is very useful. For pages that don’t have an RSS Page2RSS will basically create one for you. Simply type in the URL of the page that you’re interested in, grab the feed, add it into your favourite reader and you’re done.”
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In my opinion…
It is a great way to monitor static pages.
Though there are many other monitoring tools available on the Web, this one doesn’t require any login, it works well, and it is just as simple as a click.
I found one limitation though: it doesn’t watch the page as regularly as it should. It only checks for updates every 4 hours (well, not so bad I assume). I thought that refreshing my feed would automatically generate an update from Page2RSS, but it is not the case…
So my recommendation: use it for pages where content is not changing too frequently.
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