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Samepoint: Social Conversations Search
Sarah Perez on September 6th, 2008
 I just discovered Samepoint courtesy of Killer Startups, and I was intrigued. A social conversation tracker? Sounds like something I want to check out. The site allows you to perform searches across the social web including Facebook, Friendster, Diigo, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Yelp, Twitter, MySpace, Simpy, Mister Wong, Blogmarks, and Reddit…but oddly, not Twitter. The site also searches blogs via Technorati and by performing searches on Wordpress.com. SnapshotsAfter you run a search, you can narrow down your options using the “Search Within” feature in the right sidebar. Here you can select any one of the sites to see just results from the site. Now, you would think that in doing so, the main page of search results would be updated to display the filtered items, but instead, you’re presented with a “snapshot” of searches from that site just beneath the “Search Within” box: Snapshot of searches for “sarahintampa” SearchesThe main search results attempt to aggregate the conversations around a particular topic to show you the source and the comments of that particular convo. For testing purposes, I ran a few searches on some of my favorite terms: “Greasemonkey,” “Twitter apps,” “FriendFeed,” and, of course, the requisite vanity search for “sarahintampa.” I have to say, the results were confusing. I don’t know how it determines how to group conversations, but the results were always in the format of “search terms” + “other word(s).” For example, a search for “Twitter apps,” returned conversations around “Update Apps” + “twitter apps,” “Chrome” + “twitter apps,” “Android Apps” + “twitter apps,” etc. For Greasemonkey, I received results like “Active Digg Users” + “greasemonkey,” “Que Hay” + “greasemonkey,” and “having” + “greasemonkey.” And even when I looked at the search results for one of my keywords and the apparently arbitrary other word paired with it, I couldn’t determine where or how the conversation even related to the terms. Search Results for “Greasemonkey”: Can I just say HUH? Clearly I’m doing it wrong. But I don’t know how to do it right, then. I thought a search engine, social or otherwise, was for querying on keywords. Apparently not. So how this site is actually useful – or rather, how it’s more useful than a Google search, a Twitter search, a Friendfeed search, or a Google Blog search, etc. - I’m not entirely sure.For goodness sakes, if you are looking for a universal social search engine, just head to Yacktrack’s Chatter page instead. It makes a lot more sense.
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Are You Blogging or Journaling?
Sarah Perez on September 1st, 2008
This post is for my readers who aren’t uber-early adopters on the bleeding edge of tech. Many of you will want to just bypass this one. Every now and then, I write something for those only moderately obsessed with technology and social media. If you’re thinking of starting a blog, one of the [...]Continue Reading...
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Hide The Awful YouTube Comments, Keep the Good Ones
Sarah Perez on August 31st, 2008
Ha! You have to appreciate the ingenuity of something like the Firefox extension YouTube Comment Snob. This plugin hides the horrid and profane comments written by the adolescents, griefers, and other freaky creatures that seem to inhabit YouTube waiting to leave their grammatically incorrect, foul, and otherwise unreadable comments underneath all the videos on [...]Continue Reading...
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Blogging From the Blackberry?
Sarah Perez on August 30th, 2008
As you know, I still have a Blackberry as my phone. I can’t get a 3G iPhone until my T-Mobile contract expires next year, so I opted for an iPod Touch instead. Since I’m stuck using the BBerry when wi-fi isn’t available, I’m interested in finding apps that can do what the iPhone/iPod Touch [...]Continue Reading...
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And We’re Back…Sorta
Sarah Perez on August 30th, 2008
If you follow my blog via RSS or email and had wondered what had happened to my site, then you must have missed the story I documented via Twitter and FriendFeed last week. The shortest explanation is that my dear ol’ dad accidentally killed my website, but the longer story involves a tale of [...]Continue Reading...
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Tweeple Twak (The Twitter App I’ve Been Dying To Show You)
Sarah Perez on August 21st, 2008
When a friend showed me the Twitter app he was building not too long ago, I was pretty darned excited. I knew for a fact that this app would greatly appeal to Twitter users who would like to keep track of their followers, especially in the wake of the great Twitter follower drop of [...]Continue Reading...
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The Microsoft Sphere
Sarah Perez on August 21st, 2008
By now, you probably have heard the news about the Microsoft Sphere. From the same researchers who developed Surface, the Sphere is a similar multi-touch device except instead of being a table, it’s shaped like a globe. The sphere was built as a collaborative effort between Global Imagination, makers of a digital globe known as [...]Continue Reading...
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Speed Launch From Office Labs
Sarah Perez on August 20th, 2008
The Office Labs site has released their first community prototype project: Speed Launch. (Community Prototypes are projects that Microsoft employees work on in their spare time.) Speed Launch is an application launcher, similar to Launchy, which I reviewed earlier here. With Speed Launch, you can quickly launch programs, documents, even frequently accessed websites. What [...]Continue Reading...
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Update Twitter From Identi.ca
Sarah Perez on August 20th, 2008
For those of you who haven’t taken the plunge with Ping.fm, I just came across a cool little cross-posting tool for Twitter/Identi.ca users. The app will post Identi.ca updates to your Twitter account automatically after you fill in the necessary information. The first post will only grab your latest Identi.ca update, and then, after [...]Continue Reading...
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For Love (or Not) of FriendFeed
Sarah Perez on August 19th, 2008
Today, I asked this question on Twitter and I got some interesting responses: Now I’m really curious. I was surprised to see so many NO’s. I guess I thought that most of the people following me on Twitter would probably be social media enthusiasts who loved the FriendFeed service, too. This is a [...]Continue Reading...
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