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 Twitter search is better than it sed to be, but still, finding people on Twitter is not easy. Here are three ways to find the people you are looking for whether you are looking for old friends or you want to meet new people.
Twitter’s own people search lets you search for people you know by entering a first name, a last name or a username. I’ve never had any luck finding friends this way — it only really works with usernames, for some reason, and I haven’t had much luck guessing people’s usernames.
If you want to meet new people on Twitter who share your interests, Twitter suggests people you might want to follow (this tool is located behind the Find People link in the top menu). My tweets and Twitter friends all share the common themes of web search and digital learning. My top three suggestions are not remotely related: cultural gossip from Los Angeles, the world’s third-largest steerable radio telescope and a girl called Allison who introdces herself like this: “hi there, i’m ali. i’m in a band called a fine frenzy. life is funny. let’s have a laugh”.
So I decided to go elswhere for Twitter people search. I found three interesting tools:
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 How about a one-stop-shop that offers technical know-how for parents and teachers who want to teach internet literacy to young people? The Council of Europe offers an extensive handbook for free.
The handbook is available in HTML and Flash format for free and a printed version is available for EUR 13 (USD 20).
The handbook aims to:
- offer teachers and parents sufficient technical know-how to allow them to share young people’s and children’s voyages of discovery through communication technology;
- highlight ethical issues and give insight into added-value in education;
- provide ideas for constructive, practical activities in class or at home to draw benefits from the Internet and mobile technology;
- share best practice in widely varying domains of Internet use;
- provide links that will give further information or practical examples.
The content is divided into 25 fact sheets on themes such as searching for information, spam, chat, games, creativity, privacy, security, social networking, Web 2.0 and becoming an active e-citizen. Each fact sheet contains a general introduction to the theme, ethical considerations, best practice examples and links to further information.
If part of the goal is to engage the net generation, the web design should have received a serious face lift. Appearance aside, this is an important resource with much needed information in just the right amounts.
I would love to see a condensed, simplified version for teenagers — most often they have to acquire their internet literacy on their own. In this version, every fact sheet should have embed code and a button to share it on Facebook.
The Internet Literacy Handbook
 You probably browse the web from home, at work and possibly on your smartphone. If you do, storing bookmarks in the browser can be annoying and counterproductive. You need an online bookmarking tool to have easy access to all your favorite web sites regardless of which device you use to get online. Here are Pandia’s top 5 social bookmarking services.
Social bookmarking is like a quiet, clever sister among her fancy Web 2.0 siblings. YouTube and Facebook are so much fun; they get all the attention. But the social bookmarking services are in many ways much more useful for most people and they are equally social (or at least they could be).
Two years ago I wrote Pandia’s first Top 5 social bookmarking services article. Since then, some new services have appeared and some old players have disappeared. It is time for a fresh look and to select the definitive top 5 services for 2009.
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What the search engine news scene has brought to our attention this week:
- Likaholix Wants to Know What You Like
Likaholix is a new website by two ex-Google employees, Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan. (G Blogoscoped March 4 2009)
- Google’s Schmidt: I Didn’t Diss Twitter
Eric Schmidt explained on CNBC tonight that he didn’t mean to insult Twitter when he said it was a poor-man’s email system. (Silicon Alley Insider March 4 2009)
- Get Ready For A Better Experience With Google Health!
Feature allows users to share their medical records with their trusted network of individuals. (PageTraffic March 5 2009)
- When Search Spam Gets Evil: “Craphat”
Spam beyond white hat and black hat SEO (SE Roundtable March 5 2009)
- Google Launches TipJar, a Yahoo Answer-Like Money Saving Tips Site
TipJar is powered by Google Moderator, a tool which started as an experiment for the Google App Engine. (SE Journal March 5 2009)
- Is Google Rewiring Our Brains?
Research on how internet searching activated different parts of the brain (SE Land March 6 2009)
- Why Google & Twitter Need to Ditch “Nofollow” for All Our Sakes!
With the nofollow tag added to every single link shared in Twitter, Google’s spider–even if it could keep up with Twitter’s flow of content–is strictly forbidden from following those links. (Marketing Pilgrim March 6 2009)
- Google Adds Recent Earthquake Info to Search Results
If you do a search for “earthquakes” on Google, now you’ll get info on the most recent earthquake activity (SEW March 6 2009)
- Yahoo! Releases Inquisitor for the iPhone
Last year, Yahoo! acquired the assets for search suggestion plugin Inquisitor. (SEW March 6 2009)
- Live Search Cashback Icon Now on MSN Toolbar
What’s good about this Cashback icon is the fact that it gleams whenever you have encountered an item in your search results which has a cashback offering. (SE Journal March 5 2009)
- Potential Trouble for LexisNexis and Westlaw
LexisNexis gives you acces to legal documents for a fee. Senator Lieberman wants it to be free (Beyond Search March 2 2009)
- First screenshot of Microsoft’s Kumo
From this screenshot (and two others I have seen), it appears the biggest change in Kumo is the way that it shows in the first results the query narrowed by a couple of different things the searcher might be looking for. (Beyond Binary March 1 2009)
- Understanding Intentions and Microsoft Search Personalization
Microsoft Kumo will use search history to identify best hits (SEO by the Sea March 6 2009)
- Live Search to get new features…oh and a new brand, too
Kumo.com, the Japanese term for “cloud” (or spider, depending) might be slated to become the new brand for Live Search. (LiveSide March 1 2009)
- 100 Best Web Tools for Your Self Improvement
Just because you feel like you don’t have time to work on your productivity, budget or goals doesn’t mean you have an excuse to put off organizing and improving your life. (Online Universities)
- Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can’t
It’s because of the potential it sees in search that the Twitter co-founders walked away from a $500 million offer from Facebook (Advertising Age March 3 2009)
- Why Googlers Are Leaving to Start Social Sites (And Invites to One of Them)
The reason former Googlers focus on community-oriented is because they know that it is very difficult to take on Google on a pure technology play (Mashable March 4 2009)
- Deep Peep
This search engine is designed to cater to the needs of casual Web users in search of online databases (Beyond Search March 7 2009)
- Why I Sued Google (and Won)
Aaron Greenspan found his AdSense account closed down but got no explanation from Google (Huffington March 6 2009)
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