The Real Time Web
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Real Time Discovery (Information Aggregators)
News360 ( A Semantic News Aggregator) News360 uses semantic analysis to deliver the most relevant news of the day, including stories about your favorite topics from your favorite sources. Newsvine An instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment. Newsvine is a community-powered, collaborative journalism news website, owned by msnbc.com, which draws content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources such as The Associated Press. newsmap Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News aggregator Good Noows RSS Aggregator with Rich Features and Simple, Clean Interface (Unlike Google reader). popurls A mashup of the web's most visited social news sites and portals that encapsulates headlines of its sources in near-real time. Trendsmap Real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world YourVersion Real-time discovery engine where updates tailored to your specific interests on a continuous basis. Evri ( A Semantic Real Time Discovery Engine) Works as a discovery engine, delivering intelligent, real-time streams of information on topics that matter most at that moment: on the web and to the consumer. NetVibes Netvibes is the fastest way to track your real-time Web.All in one place and always up-to-date. Hubii Hubii is a news browser which displays breaking headlines on one side of the display, and a Google Map that shows the concentration of news publishers with the help of blue markers New York Times for Chrome Built using HTML5 it manages to deliver a really fantastic reading experience. Boasting support for 10 different layouts, keyboard shortcuts, offline reading and easy access to share tools, the app is a strong example of just what can be accomplished in a modern web app. Kadaza Service that claims to show the absolute best and most popular websites in many different and numerous categories. Scoop.it! Often described as Tumblr without the blog. It offers users the opportunity to “be the curator of your favorite topic” and suggests that visitors use the site to “create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant social media streams. Publish it to people sharing the same interest.” Bundlr A tool for online curation that does it all – clipping, aggregation and sharing web content. Click here to view a Sample Bundlr Paper.li A news aggregator. It gathers Twitter posts from a keyword, a list, or a specific Twitter account and collects what it perceives to be the popular stories and tweets. It then puts them together in a unified format that is like an online paper.Click here to view a sample The Future of Education Real Time Search Topsy Real-time search for the social web Hakia Hakia calls itself a “meaning-based (semantic) search engine.” They’re trying to provide search results based on meaning match, rather than by the popularity of search terms. The company uses something they call “QDEX,” which they claim analyzes Web pages better than indexing. Hakia also has a number of interesting features. For example, for short queries the site displays results in categories, instead of a standard list like you’re probably used to. For longer queries, Hakia highlights what it believes to be relevant phrases or sentences. Additionally, Hakia adds some social features to it’s search engine. Visual Search Engines TinEye Reverse Image Search. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web. Spezify Visual Search Results. Rather than presenting the information in a boring, uniform list, Spezify spices things up with images and snippets from various content that match the search terms. The page is filled with potential results in a way that is eye-catching. The downside is that some people may have a hard time wading through all of the images and article bits to find what they are looking for. When performing a casual search or doing a little looking on the web for entertainment, Spezify is a very good place to start Unofficial Google Image Search by Drawing Sketch up what you're looking for and use it as a search query. Other Unique Search Engines Qwiki Qwiki is the world’s first “information experience”, powered by a technology that transforms static information into interactive stories. Wolfram Alpha It is not a search engine. A search engine gives you links; Wolfram Alpha gives you answers. It is the world's biggest calculator. Wolfram's Luc Barthelet puts it this way: "We do not search the Web. We do not search Web pages. What we do is answer the questions that people ask through a process that is similar to solving an equation." instaGrok An intelligent search engine that improves independent learning on any topic. It retrieves information from around the web but goes one step further by helping you navigate your way through the results, identifying and rating the difficulty of important concepts and creating review quizzes. It also displays concept definitions and the relationships between concepts in the left column. Wiki Summarizer Allows you to search Wikipedia, have articles summarized by key points, and provides lists of articles that are related to your original search.It also offers hyperlinked word clouds for every Wikipedia article. You can click on any word in the word clouds to jump to the corresponding Wikipedia article. ... More to Come |
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