I’ve occasionally used the trending tool from IceRocket, but hadn’t until lately noticed that Google itself has a very useful trending tool. Have you tried it? It’s at http://www.google.com/trends . The trends […]
ResearchBuzz
News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such online information collections. Since 1998.
ResearchBuzz Roundup 100707
WiFi detecting t-shirt. WANT. Google Labs are getting empty! the Reader has graduated too. The State Department has a posse^H^H^H^H^H blog: Dipnote. Hey! Zoho has a database. A blog for librarians interested […]
Information Trapping for Tags: Thagoo
If you’re looking for more tag sites to do information trapping, check out Thagoo. It’s a tag meta-search site that offers RSS feeds for search results. The site’s at http://thagoo.com/ . Search […]
Play a Game, Teach The Computer About Music
I love learning about these sites that create games that allow humans to teach computers. Last year I covered Google’s game that allows players to tag images from Google. Recently I learned […]
Information Trapping for Genealogy
Family tree searchers out there? I heard about a site this week that lets you check for information on ancestors you’re searching. Genealogy Agent, at http://www.genealogyagent.com , allows you to monitor genealogy […]