What We Track
With millions of users registered on social network websites, the advent of the blog and news aggregator sites such as digg, mixx and del.icio.us internationally and now laaik.it locally, anyone can say anything online.
These sites, in addition to the existing mainstream news, community and activist websites, make it near impossible for your company to know the full extent of what’s being said about it online. This is why saidWot offers such a valuable service.
There are various online platforms where real time conversations are happening out there, some of these include:
- Search Engines
- Social-Networks
- Micro-Blogging
- Forums
- Social Bookmarking
- Photo Sites
- Wikis
- Video Sites
- Reviews
- Newsportals
- Google search – is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. and is the most-used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997.
- Yahoo! Search – is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo! Inc. and was as of June 2009, the 2nd largest search engine on the web by query volume, at 17%, after its competitor Google at 74% and before Bing at 7%, according to Compete.com.
- Technorati – is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a portmanteau of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.
- Amatomu – is a blog search engine and article aggregator, focusing on blogs published in South Africa. It was founded by local web entrepreneurs Matthew Buckland and Vincent Maher in March 2007, while working for one of the country’s largest news websites the Mail & Guardian Online.The site ranks bloggers and provides charts and statistics for their blogs. It also has the ability to track trends and monitor keywords in the local blogosphere via buzzgraphs. Amatomu organizes bloggers by topic and lists blog keywords.
- Afrigator Internet was founded in April 2007 as a social media aggregator and blog directory built for African consumers. Afrigator uses social media tools and technologies to showcase the best digital content that the African continent has to offer; ranging from syndicated news feeds to blog posts, podcasts, videos and images.
- Bing (formally Live Search) is a new breed of search engine from Microsoft designed to change the way you find the information that you want. Bing is positioned as a “decision engine†enabling users to sort through the masses of information and find the shortest distance to an informed decision. Bing is now integrated into the majority of Microsoft’s websites, such as the Live.com and MSN.co.nz web portals.
- Facebook – The name of a social networking site (SNS) that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, post photos, share links and exchange other information. Facebook users can see only the profiles of confirmed friends and the people in their networks.
- Twitter – is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.
- MySpace – MySpace is an online community that allows friends to keep in touch and meet new people as well. It started out as a website that bands could use to promote their music, but has since grown into a more general community of friends.
- Bebo – Myspace’s biggest rival. Currently very popular amongst college students in Ireland for some strange reason.
- Orkut – a social networking service that allows you to post personal or professional information and link to friends and acquaintances. Its popularity has been overshadowed by rivals in many parts of the world, but it is wildly popular in Brazil and India.
- Hi 5 – a social networking website. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO As of January 2009, Hi5 claims to have over 60 million active members.
- Twitter – is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.
- An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site.It is the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system.From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content.
- HelloPeter.com – A Consumer Complaint site where you can report on the service you receive from any supplier – anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free.
- Delicious – formerly del.icio.us, pronounced “deliciousâ€) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
- Mixx – a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools.
- Laaik.it – South Africa’s hottest social news and bookmarking site.
- Digg – A Web site that accepts links and brief descriptions to news articles, videos and podcasts from members, all of which are voted on by other members who “digg it!â€
- Flickr – is a popular photo sharing website that allows members to upload their own photos into customizable albums that can then be labeled, organized, tagged, and publicly posted. Flickr, as well as many other photo hosting websites, provides image URLs for every file that is uploaded, and these image URLs can then be used to embed a photo in a website, social networking profile, blog post, or email.
- Wikipedia – is a free web-based and collaborative multilingual encyclopedia, born in the project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning “quickâ€) and encyclopedia.
- YouTube – A very popular Web video sharing site that lets anyone store short videos for private or public viewing. YouTube provides a venue for sharing videos among friends and family as well as a showcase for new and experienced videographers. Featuring videos it considers entertaining, YouTube has become a destination for ambitious videographers, as well as amateurs who fancy making a statement of some kind.
- TripAdvisor – is a free travel guide and research website that assists customers in gathering travel information, posting opinions of travel related issues and engaging in interactive travel forums.
- HelloPeter.com – A Consumer Complaint site where you can report on the service you receive from any supplier – anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free.
- 24.com
- lol.com
