Searching the Inauguration Pulse via Google
Because of my reach as an author on the topic of Social Media Marketing, I recieved this email today:
“Dear Israeli,
The power of social search will flex its muscles on this historic day as Barack Obama becomes President.
WebMynd, a nifty company that embeds social search within Google, today released a handy OneRiot extension for Firefox that brings the real-time pulse of the web straight to Google: http://www.webmynd.com/html/oneriot.html.
In addition to OneRiot, the WebMynd extension also comes packaged with other social sits like Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube. Once downloading the WebMynd extension, folks searching for news and events surrounding today’s inauguration (and other news) will see the real-time pulse of the web from OneRiot and the other social sites right alongside their Googlies. Very cool!”
This seems like a great idea to me, the ability to provide current breaking news ‘pulse’ to add to a portal or website ‘stickyness’ and increase both the value of the website to it’s affinity group visitors, and conversion for the website owner.
Perhaps this is a good time to point out, at this turning point in our history (I will elaborate in a spicy way later in this post) and to share the value of this kind of blogging – siezing an opportunity to comment on current events to:
