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Multiply introduces social search
I've talked about
'social search' here
on the Social Software Weblog before. And it seems that search is dead center on many 'social' activities. But Multiply
Inc., accordinging to a
press
release and an email I received from Michael Gersh—co-founder of Multiply, has crafted a social search facility for
its users that focuses on information found in one's own social network.
According to Michael, Multiply Search is: "...the first search-engine that finds content published and written by
people you are socially connected to… Results are sorted according to the social proximity index, as well as
traditional key-word relevance. Since the searcher knows relationship to the publisher a comfortable forum for
discussion exists… Multiply is the first to elegantly integrate the Internet's two killer applications; search and
communication…"
How is Multiply these days? Any early adopters still hanging in there? Comments? Feedback? ...
Outfoxed attempts social search
Here's another offering in the arena of social search: Outfoxed is the
implementation of Stan James's master's thesis on Trusted Metadata Distribution Using Social Networks. The idea is to
get beyond the model of objectively weighting links by number, moving towards showing you subjective, trusted ratings
of pages from your cohorts and contacts in your search results. As you surf, you can make explicit assessments of the
sites and services you're visiting. These trust assessments get published as RSS 1.0 files with some extra tags that
are parsed by Outfoxed. Your contacts are privy to your assessments, which then show up in your search results ("rated
good," "rated dangerous," etc.). Outfoxed is a Firefox extension downloadable
here — it's only going to be as good as who you know who's already using it. Is there a meta-way out of this
perennial catch-22? ...
Yahoo's My Web 2.0 implements social search
Things are getting interesting. Yahoo's new My Web 2.0
is now in beta, which taps into your already trusted
networks to (ideally) give you more relevant search results based on what the folks you know have recommended. I've had
the chance to start playing around with it a bit, and it seems so far to be the adorable lovechild of traditional
search and social bookmarking services. It brings to
regular search the spicy flavors of trust and serendipity and, praise be,
folksonomy (it's true, I'm a fool for tags). You can
save, tag and annotate your Yahoo search results, flag
them as public or private, and narrow a search to give results only from the subset of pages your contacts have saved.
Again, bless them, they're providing an open API for
developers to tweak, so look for some sweet new applications to be built up on top of this. They also articulate a long
range goal of seeing communities build up their own localized search engines on specific topics or areas of interest —
an ...
A 'Social' search on iTunes
What are current
iTunes music selections saying?
Social Distortion, Social
Combat, Social Unrest,
Social Disease,
Not that Social,
Social Crimes,
Social Deviantz,
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social
Climber, and Broken Social Scene were just the first nine
returns that i found on a 'social' search of iTunes.
Don't know what i expected, but these did make me ponder our 'social' state.
Up next came The Social Harp—Early
American Shape-Note Songs. A bit different than the previous nine. Ever been to a 'Shape-Note' or 'Sacred Harp'
singing camp? ...
Social Software, Anti-Social Software
Along the road of my career in technology—dancing at the intersection of hardware, software, and 'wetware'
(us!)—i've survived many jaunts down the alley ways of: artificial intelligence, expert systems, knowledge management,
customer relationship management, groupware, computer mediated communications, and numerous other 'collaborative'
software.
I will not venture into beginning to bore you with an accounting of the alphabetic acronymn soup spawned,
predominantly in large enterprises, as a result of these frequent, frantic forays fashioned for fervent followers of
finding the holy grail of 'seamless' communication, collaboration, workflow, etc. Nothing fancy really, just searching
for magic bullets.
danah boyd recently blogged an
abstract
for a paper she's writing on The Significance of "Social Software". 'Social Software' is a fairly benign term
when compared to the more arrogant 'Knowledge Management'. Imagine managing knowledge? Yours, let alone someone ...
ObjectsSpace and ObjectsSearch
In my continuing search for signs of intelligent life in the expanding universe of online social media tools, I
found a brief press release
about ObjectsSearch and
ObjectsSpace—combining blogging, social networking, photo-sharing, and
search.
ObjectsSearch sounded familiar and I found that
The Daily Rundown lists
ObjectsSearch at number 9 in a list of the 'Top 10 Search Engines of 2004'.
Is search at the center of your social networking experience? Or is social networking at the center of your searching
experience? ...
Earthcomber and social mapping software
I went on a social story search on
Engadget this evening and stumbled upon Earthcomber's
recent addition of 'sharing' features to their PalmOS PDA mapping product.
In a recent press release, Earthcomber founder Jim
Brady said: "We're putting people in charge of their own experience, and with this release of Earthcomber, people can
graduate from being recipients of information to being mappers of their own worlds."
With or without a GPS enabled palm device, Earthcomber rocks for everything from personal travel to smart mobbing to
bird watching. Free for users, Earthcomber comes preloaded with about 1.5M locations, points of interest, libraries,
hospitals, etc.
You can mark, or 'trade places' using either your Palm device or the web. And now you can join any number of groups to
share these favorite spots.
Note to self: add to SNS Meta List under MoSoSos. There, done. Here's my current MoSoSo list:
AirCQ, awaRE, BEDD,
BusyThumbs*, BuZZone, CrowdSurfer, ...
CalendarHub, YASC (Yet Another Social Calendar)
Here's another entrant into the social calendaring space — CalendarHub lets you create private and/or shared calendars for your family, friends, groups, etc. Search
other folks' calendars for events that interest you. Publish your calendar on your website, create reminders, subscribe
to others' calendars via RSS. Take advantage of the API to build your own apps on top. I'll be interested to check out
the drag and drop interface — still waiting on the beta invite.
[Via del.icio.us] ...
The social web as the new intranet?
Jon Udell is one of my favorites and in this week's print edition of InfoWorld magazine his column really raises some
fundamental issues. The article was available a week ago online but just now caught my eye and is titled Reinventing the Intranet: Modern social software could be the key to building effective enterprise knowledge
systems. Anyone who's been reading much of Udell's writing will be unsurprised
by the basic premise of this piece, but the sense of historical perspective and the succinct questions the article
raises about translating what are so far largely consumer oriented services (Web 2.0) into truly powerful tools for
organization communication are refreshing and important. Udell focuses on enterprise vs. general web search
and the impact of social bookmarking/tagging. He asks whether these technologies will be implemented
intelligently as organizations shift towards internal use. "Given the
opportunity," Udell write, "people will want to bookmark and tag ...
Social-Mail, Byoms and more: This week's eHub round up
"I like your roundups of eHub!" says Emily Chang in an email. All the more reason to keep doing the darned things. Emily Chang's eHub is a great resource for learning about new or newly highlighted Web 2.0 services and products, but it can be overwhelming. In the spirit of helpfulness, I've now done a number of weekly summaries of my favorite items on eHub. The following is the most recent in the series. No substitute for reading eHub itself, of course, these summaries are just my favorites on the weeks I find time to do a write up. Listed in order of my excitement this time instead of chronologically: Social-Mail Happy day! Send emails to an RSS feed. I feel far more comfortable using this tool, a Big in Japan offering, than I do using my previous stand by, mail2rss.org. Mail2rss.org has worked well for me so far, but the fact that it's remained in "extreme alpha" mode since I found it makes me very glad to find an alternative. I use these tools ...
Wayfaring is social tripping
Wayfaring is a service that allows you to create your own customized and annotated
Google Map and share it. Or, just browse the maps others have created — from the Philadelphia Marathon route to LA gay bars to best
places to snorkel on Maui. You can leave comments on each map or contact the mapmaker directly with questions. This
is cool on a large scale to share points of interest with a wide audience, or on a small scale to set up a map of your
family's recent road trip to share with your friends, e.g. — I like that it works on both levels. The keys will
be getting people to come contribute to another data silo, and making sure folks can easily find something interesting
when they're browsing/searching. [Hat tip to Marshall Kirkpatrick
and Narendra Rocherolle for the heads up!] ...
Jookster
Jookster mashes up web archiving, social networking, and ranked searching to provide a new service that I think has some interesting things going with it. After signing up for a Jookster profile and installing the Firefox tool-bar, users have access to personalized searches and instant web archiving. Clicking on the Jook This button in the tool-bar instantly archives a copy of the page you are visiting and indexes it for search. You can go back at your convenience and search through all the pages you have jooked. The cool thing about Jookster however is not the fact that it can archive and index content, Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 has been doing this for ages. The cool aspect of Jookster is the social aspect. Adding buddies with similar interests expands your search results to include things jooked by them, and their buddies, and their buddies buddies, etc. You can specify how many degrees of separation you want to search. The search results are ranked by how many degrees the person who jooked a page is away from you. ...
Gataga gone?
Yikes — it looks like Gataga, the meta
social bookmarking search
engine, has mysteriously vanished. Here's their
farewell post, nary a scrap of explanation
forthcoming. Anybody know anything about this?
[Via Library clips] ...
Yahoo news search integrates blogs and Flickr results
Wow, pretty sweet — Yahoo is integrating blog
search with their news search, as well as adding Flickr photos and My Web 2.0 results into the mix. This brings together user-created
and mainstream media in a way that's unprecedented, totally beating Google to the punch on this one as well as
leveraging the goodness of both Flickr and My Web 2.0. From the announcement, we should expecting yet further
integration of community created content (podcasts, e.g.) in the future.
The index only includes a subset of the larger blogosphere (those that are included in the My Yahoo feed directory), but will grow to ideally
include everything from the blo.gs ping stream. The interface doesn't quite put blogs on equal footing visually —
they're off in a sidebar while the regular news search results are in the main pane — but I actually sort of like
the way this is done. It's not going to alienate mainstream users who want to stick with their traditional MSM sources,
but will provide a still visible ...
Gada.be tag metasearch aggregator for mobiles
Given that anything related to tagging has my immediate attention, so I gada talk (aww I had to, forgive me) about
Chris Pirillo's new project, gada.be — but not without noting how deceptively
easy it is to conflate "search" with "social" these days, on top of the tendency to conflate
Web 2.0 and social. Anywho — the idea behind
gada.be is two-fold: to consolidate a host of separate tag searches (and keyword searches, which sort of glosses over
the distinction between user tagging and keywords, bear in mind) into one search to rule them all (tracking about 140
resources at the moment), and to make that search dead easy to do on a mobile device by using a small bit of syntax you
can use to actually specify your search in a single URL. Thus, you can enter a search query from a cellphone or PDA (as
well as from any old browser) by entering the search term/tag/keyword as the subdomain, like so:
http://corpse.bride.gada.be/ or http://corpse-bride.gada.be/ (using the dot signifies a quoted ...
