WhosTalkin: Social Media Search for a Moment in Time
Today, searching through social media sites is much like the days of searching the Web before the advent of Google. Many of us are performing a series of loosely associated searches, and then aggregating them to try to get a glimpse of the bigger picture. To get a good cross-section of the conversation, we're running searches on Twitter and Ice Rocket, creating any number of Google Alerts, and building Yahoo! Pipes to sift through all the sources of information.
The perfect solution isn't there yet. And while no one has truly nailed "social media search," WhosTalkin is definitely a step in the right direction.
WhosTalkin, a social media search engine that recently came out of private beta, provides a simple interface that allows users to search a number of popular blogs and microblogging platforms, news aggregators, networks, video services, images, forums, and popular bookmarking and tagging services. Search results generally provide a decent overview of "who's saying what" about the particular search term, and WhosTalkin does a good job of crawling through a number of services in one fell swoop. Which is good.
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