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.
