I woke up this morning feeling an irresistible need for an information aggregator.On a daily basis what I use the most are: Google Reader, Twitter, Google alerts. In an attempt to organize, understand and sort, I use Google Analytics and Delicious.
And I feel like I'm loosing and missing a lot of information, time and at the end of the day, I don't have the "big picture".
So, I woke up moaning about how hard it is to cope with so many info and how frustrating it is to miss so much.
Quite patiently - it wasn't 7:00am yet - my personal geeknius (geek+genius) advocate for a thorough market survey: "you may like to try this and that, probably that you'll find something to meet this need".
I did as told. Didn't find my solution yet, but felt it was worth sharing my first findings:
- uberVU (I love the name) - social info on key words displayed in a (very) nice dashboard - realtime
Here's a quick demo:
There's a nice "Trial for free for 30 days". Cost is pretty fair as well:
- Wikio - blog & news syndication
seems pretty thorough in the aggregated sources and allows you to popularize them through votes. And it's free. Basically, it provides you with "what's hot".
- Newscred: Then a tweet from @nicolasgamard led my to NewsCred
Basically I found it a Reverse Google Reader: instead of following a given media, you type in a topic and newscred displays related news in a "your own newspaper"-way.
See mine: http://adeforsan.newscred.com/#
OK now, let's test them on a given topic. I looked for a synthetic view on Kwaga.
Results:
- on UberVU: http://www.ubervu.com/kwaga/social-media/
- on Wikio: http://www.wikio.com/search/kwaga
- on NewsCred: http://adeforsan.newscred.com/kwaga
- Only uberVu provides multi-languages results
- None drag info from Feedback-type of forum
- I got aggregated info by media type, but I'm still missing the cross-media syndication I'm looking for. Not mentioning the associated dashboard.
Thanks for sharing.
Web-ephemere.fr even if it still in working process
ReplyDeleteAlthough it suffers from the tragedy of the commons, just waiting for friends to notice things is a great way to find content.
ReplyDeleteI use Netvibes on the "big screen" and another generic RSS agregator on my mobile (nokiaN900).
ReplyDeleteI like Hootsuite to agregate posts from FB or twits. It can send updates to these social medias as well as to LinkedIn and Ping.fm (+ others).
IMHO, we are awashed with new services like these that pop up at weekly rate, at least. It's difficult to keep abreast and most of all to ride the learning curve which gets steeper and steeper as the sophistication increases everytime.
This is one good reason why I like your post. I did not know of newscred, nor ubervu...
See ya (next café des community Mgrs ?)
@Pierre
ReplyDeleteI've dropped Netvibes for Google reader a while ago... But I'll get it another look :-)
So true that we're just desperatly trying to cope with the never-ending information tide - However, I have to admit that the real time fascinates me.
Yup, let's meet IRL @ next Café des Community Managers ! When will it be?