Thursday, June 26, 2008

100 Useful Niche Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of | College@Home

100 Useful Niche Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of | College@Home: "100 Useful Niche Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of

By Laura Milligan

Though the general Google site is often touted as the number one search engine online, college students sometimes need more specific tools to help them uncover quality information on the Web that they can use for class projects, research papers, and even job and apartment searches. This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students, including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more."

Monday, June 23, 2008

Strategic law firm intelligence via Summize and Twitter : Real Lawyers Have Blogs

Strategic law firm intelligence via Summize and Twitter : Real Lawyers Have Blogs

"[W]ith the growing use of Twitter by those active in social networking and social media, monitoring the blogosphere alone is not enough. You need to monitor what people are 'micro-blogging' at Twitter. A lot can be said about you - good and bad - in 140 characters of text broadcast to hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of a person's followers on Twitter.

I subscribe to an RSS feed of keywords and key phrases mentioned on Twitter via Summize.

Summize is a search engine for Twitter that, like Google Blog Search for blogs, allows you to subscribe to searches. You don't browse searches ala a standard Google Search, you subscribe to an RSS feed of your search so as to read updates in your RSS newsreader."

Monday, June 09, 2008

oopsimsorry.com

"Oops.....I'm Sorry is an interactive web site that offers people Options, Opportunities, Possibilities and Solutions (OOPS), to deal with the 'OOPS' that happen in life. 'Oops' as we define it is, anything that goes wrong or is upsetting. "