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Searching Socially

August 11, 2006

Posted by leah.jones

Okay, okay, I admit it. I'm not a first adopter or a trendsetter. While I have a pretty high awareness of what is coming out or going on, I don't have user profiles 18,438 different sites.

This week I learned about a few new things, though, that are pushing me to make a few new user profiles.

Omgili.com has a new social searching tool called PowWow. It is connecting users with similar searches and allowing you to ask questions of other users. I discovered it earlier this week and when I have a really good question, I intend to ask away.

Through obsessive stats checking on one of my blogs, we discovered (or was discovered by) Stumble Upon. It is web-surfing for lazy people like me. Added to the toolbar, just click on the Stumble button and you go to a random website. Give it a thumbs up or thumbs down and stumble to the next. You set the topics you like to stumble upon--I set mine to writing and satire for starters.

LastFM isn't new, but it new to me. It is a social music site where users share playlists and is powered by the AudioScrobbler team. Is anyone out there using it? I'm just in taking the tour today, but it could be my entry into the magical world on mp3s.

The last site that piqued my interest this week it NOTCOT.org. First you probably need to know, that in college my favorite view was of a bulletin board. My favorite bulletin board was at the UIUC in the quad. A gigantic cement block covered in flyers. NOTCOT is that cement block only more beautiful. Self-described as a telephone pole, I think it is a wonderful, visually appealing site to visit for a mini-vacation.

What sites did you discover this week? Who has gone social? Who is making you get a new user profile?

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