Mary Ellen Bates, Owner, Bates Information Services, Inc.
BatesInfo.com
Slide Deck found at BatesInfo.com/extras
Newsy.com - The Week meets YouTube
-Human editors summarize the news
-One-sentence summary
-Walter Cronkite of the 21st century
-Links to original sources
Google Buzz - Competition for Twitter
-Access via Gmail; comments to a post go to email
-Nice browse features
-Includes Google Stars; you can star a link on a search, will automatically be saved to your goole bookmarks; you can star a google buzz
-Rudimentary search; no date sort of results; includes other social media sources
-Offers recommendations
BuZZZy.com
-Searches Google Buzz plus Twitter, Friendfeed, etc.
-Results are chronological (unlike Buzz)
-Can limit by language
***Side note: Google Language Search, need to search other languages***
Factery.net
-Searches Yahoo BOSS and Twitter
-Ranks by FactRank
-FactRank secret sauce includes
--Tweeted URLs
--Frequency of factual sentences (One Riot indexes URLs that have been mentioned in Twitter)
-Looks for more fact based sites
-SERP (Search Engine Result Page) has facts, not extracts
-Great for mobile devices
-Tools to extract data from a web page
See latest web "facts"
Technorati - technorati.com
-Authority is working!
-Cuts out spam
-Search by blog title or blog post
-sort by date or relevance
-shows hottest posts in various channels (topics)
SlideFinder.net
-great search tool for slide decks
-they crawl individual PPT pages; emphasis on university sites
-SERP includes thumbnails of indiviual pages; one click to full slide deck, one click to download
-Search by: presentation name, slide and note text!, language
-Try
-Add in lets you know you can search within PowerPoint
World Govt Data
-Compiled by The Guardian
-Metasearch of govt data from US, UK, Australia, New Zealand
-Standardized format; can compare data from multiple sources
-User ratings
Factual.com
-Search data sets
-Like Wolfram/Alpha, but as a wiki
-Now, primarily wikipedia content
Twitter Lists
-Create and publish an RSS of your faves
-Can see who is listed on other lists
-Can see what lists a user follows; who does the guru monitor?
-Can't search the lists
Listorious.com
-Spiders (public) Twitter LIsts
--Find lists on a topic
--ID experts
What you're worth per hour
-Your salary x 1.3
--$74,000 is SLA median salary (=$96,200)
-Divide by BILLABLE weeks
--47 weeks ($2050/week)
-Divide that by 40 hours/week
--$50/hour
***This has been a great session. Instead of presenting a session such as 45 sites in 45 minutes or Top 20, Mary Ellen really discussed some great websites that are USABLE. While I love to hear about those fun cute sites, these sites she discussed are ones that not only can I use for myself, but also show to my library users, as well as incorporate into my class. I just know my students are going to love it!***
2 comments:
I love Mary Ellen Bates. I think I first say one of her presentations in the mid-90s. She is always has cool and challenging ideas about searching.
This was a really great session, and she was a great presenter. I can't wait to try out some of these sites that she recommended.
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