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briansolis: Collecta Turns Internet’s Ocean of Data into a River of Real Time Information

  • Mariana Evica · 5 months ago
    Am I correct, Brian, in saying that no search engine or proprietary app can search Facebook for conversations, trending topics or conversation agents of influence? I'm assuming Facebook's still too much of a walled garden for that, yet.

    Because the conversations on Facebook seem richer to me (and not as limited by the character limits of things like Twitter), I'm waiting for that information revolution.
  • brian · 5 months ago
    Mariana, even though Facebook switched the option for users to share updates with "everyone," not just those within their social graph, the stream is still unavailable to developers. This means that you are right, we don't have a search engine for conversations in Facebook (outside of the social graph) - at least not yet. In the meantime, search.peoplebrowsr.com allows you to search keywords within your social graph today. However, I do agree with you. Conversations on FB are richer, deeper, and more fulfilling.
  • davidleffler · 5 months ago
    There's a great article from Wired a couple of issues ago saying how Facebook wants to replace Google for searches where people are looking for a "more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information," whether looking for the best doctor or best camera. So I don't think that Facebook will be opening that walled garden anytime soon.
    Here's the article: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/...
    And here's a recent mention on the Wired site as to how most of the engineers hired by Facebook also had offers from Google: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2007/06/facebook...
  • Rolando Peralta · 5 months ago
    I don't know how I missed this post, but it's quite useful. Thanks a lot Brian. Collecta looks really cool.
    and following the las comments, I'm totally agree about FB. I think that when FB open personal "updates", they'll give us a strong buzz monitoring tool, as Twitter is nowadays.