I’m in a neologistic, word-coining mood this morning. Like you, I have one eye on my Tweetdeck, half-consciously absorbing facts, information, memes, and other synaptic nourishment that’s flowing around me. At some point in my day, I’m inevitably walking an idea back to its source, which involves unproductively scrolling through streams of posts.
Tipping my cap to early descriptions of Twitter and microblogging, I’m calling this phenomenon ambient infomacy. Well … maybe this new word won’t happen, but you get the idea.
This is all to explain why introspectr, which demoed their Twitter and Facebook search tool at New York Tech Meetup on Tuesday, received my complete attention.
Introspectr searches through Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail content, indexing both the original post and the content pointed to by any embedded links.
That’s it. Simple idea, but potent. It will resonate with others. Social media is now more than just a babbling brook of transient chit-chat: it contains valuable nuggets that you’ll want to sift out and refer to.
Now where did I hear about NYC BigApps contest?
Google has been slowly acknowledging this trend with their recent enhancements for organizing search by when the item was updated.
Next time you’re googling, actually click on the drop menus in the left-column: you’ll be able to look at results posted within the last 24 hours, week, or month. And Google has also added special search results (currently in beta and found at the bottom of the page) based on the tweets of those contacts in your Google Buzz network.
I will be utilizing introspectr as a supplement to my Google searching since my particular network usually has much relevant information—like yours— to what I’m working on at the moment.
Is this a hole-filling product? Yes, but what a chasm!
It’s a pretty safe bet to say there’ll be more startups and tools to explore infomacy. (I’m feeling better about this word).
Related articles
- The Ambient Conversations of Twitter (directmarketingobservations.com)
- introspectr
