Negroponte's "Daily Me" = RSS Feeds + Google Alerts
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — ... and Google Alerts, which provide automated search results served up instantaneously. And there are many other digital tools and services out there today that help us personalize our media experience. ...

‘Google for Webmasters’ Video Tutorial - How Google crawls, indexes etc.?
D' Technology Weblog — ... Meta tags Best uses of Flash Best uses of Ajax Duplicate content Google’s Technology Google’s History PigeonRank Help Center: Link Schemes Help Center: Cloaking Webmaster Guidelines Webmaster Central Google Analytics Google Website Optimizer Google Trends Google Reader Google Alerts More Google Products ...

Brandwatch tracks your brand's online reputation
Webware.com — ... The idea is simple. Like Google Alerts, you simply give it the name of your company and it starts tracking when and where it's showing up. This includes online newspapers, blogs, forums, and even social networks. You can monitor these mentions one at a time in list form, or see them combined together in a central location, which includes an analytics engine to weed through what's important. ...

Gov. Granholm (MI) on @Maddow: "We've seen [Palin] evolution as a candidate." Evolution? A verb? My language is evolutioning! Aaah!!!
Politweets — ... my biggest blog google search draw. Looking forward to drop-off of that stat when Obama wins... 1:50 PM Oct 21st from twitterrific Republicans attack Jesus. http://tinyurl.com/4zxbpf 12:40 PM Oct 21st from twitterrific Waynewho is definitely my weirdest Flickr contact. http://is.gd/4v9m Sorry to those of you who thought you held that title. 12:08 PM Oct 21st from twitterrific @ simon1972 Google does it for me. http://www.google.com/alerts 8:30 AM Oct 21st from twitterrific in reply to ...

Building Your Online Credibility [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Be aware of who talks about you online (and what they say). If you haven’t created a Google Alert for your name, whether it’s your own name or your business’ name, now is the time to do it. If anyone makes unfair and negative comments about your business, you need to set the record straight and put out fires as soon as possible. Otherwise, you might lose potential leads without your knowledge. ...

How to Use the New Google Web Search RSS Feeds
ReadWriteWeb — Google's been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and frustrating, you have to go through Google Alerts to get an obscure RSS URL, but we offer a tutorial and some strategic advice in this post. Web search RSS is useful for being alerted whenever search results for your keywords or link have changed; subscribing to least a few searches will let you know when Google users are seeing something new in the first few pages of search results for your company name, for example. ...

New: Keyword Alerts Offered Via RSS
The Inquisitr » Technology — Seems we’re talking about Google a lot this week, but there’s one more piece of news to share: The G-Team has just announced added support for Google Alerts through feeds. Basically, what it means is that you can get the same service previously available through e-mail alerts within your RSS reader. You can create alerts that will notify you any time a Web page, blog site, news story, or video pops up with a specific set of keywords — and now, you can have that information delivered via RSS. ...

Weekly Wrapup: Microsoft Azure, Google Chrome, iPhone Apps, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, Microsoft had two major Web announcements: 1) the release of Azure, a cloud computing OS; and 2) browser-based versions of four Office products. Google was also active this week, releasing the third beta of its new browser Chrome and announcing it will support OpenID. On the trends side, we wrote in-depth analysis pieces on LinkedIn and Hulu, advised you how to use the new Google web search RSS feeds, and more. And this week ReadWriteWeb had our own special announcement: a new product, Jobwire! ...

Google Alerts agora também é oferecido via feeds RSS
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... nesta semana um dos pedidos mais freqüentes de usuários do seu serviço Alerts: suporte a feeds RSS. Isso significa que o usuário não depende mais do recebimento de alertas somente via email — a opção da forma de entrega fica por conta da pessoa e é independente para cada um dos ...

HOW TO: Build Community on Twitter
Mashable! — ... • Google Alerts - Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (Web, news, blogs, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. ...

How to Discover New Content
louisgray.com — ... is great for finding the most relevant blogs on any particular subject. It updates and crawls extremely fast. Posts will show up in the search results rather quickly. You can also search and sort published blog posts by the last hour, last day, past week, past month or any date range. I use this in combination with a number of Google Alerts, that I have set up to monitor specific keywords of interest. If a blog is publicly publishing and has RSS enabled correctly, it should show up in the results. ...

FreshDeals puts online bargains in your pocket
Webware.com — ... , a way to get notifications when a keyword or product you bookmarked goes on sale. You can do this with a customized Google alert and some special e-mail handling rules, but it would be great to get it in a package like this. ...

Tiphero Saves You Money
Gear Live — ... We found a nifty site that can save you some bucks in this time of adversity. Tiphero helps you keep your hard earned money in such areas as food, entertainment, finance, and office expenses. We are especially fond of the Google Alert. If you are thinking of buying something and want reviews or prices, enter the specific product information. If you buy certain groceries regularly, it will alert you if there are coupons. Sign up to keep abreast of their latest tips or submit your own. ...

BackType Launches Google Alerts For Blog Comments
TechCrunch — BackType, a Y Combinator startup that launched in August, is a sort of “Twitter for comments” that aggregates comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Today they launched a new feature called Alerts that will let users track keywords included in comments on tracked blogs - a sort of Google Alerts for blog comments. This will be useful to anyone who likes to track what’s being said about them, their companies or their brands online. Google Alerts only show keywords that are in ...

Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation
Mashable! — Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, it was behind our backs and we almost never found out about it. Today, most of these dialogues are right in front of our own eyes and the number of locations where our brands may be cited is astronomical! We must remember that conversations are being held on the web with or without our consent. That means we ...

The Many Uses of Free Range
Green Daily — ... I sift through a lot of articles daily and one of my Google Alert words is "free range." I use it to locate stories about food -- usually chicken. However the word has made it's way so deep into the American vernacular that now it's used in cutesy titles for articles and websites. I've listed a few below. ...

40 Key Elements to Getting Started In Social Media
louisgray.com — ... 21) You have linked out to many bloggers, some are noticing and linking back. But how do you know? The answer is simple, set up Google Alerts to track mentions of your blog. This is a requirement not an option. Blogging software such as Wordpress will track inbound links, but it's not always accurate and lots of inbound links are missed. In addition to alerts, you need to be doing ...

Do You Organize Your Online Job Hunt? [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Although there are some cases where visiting actual job boards can help, there are several ways for you to automate your job search. For example, I set up Google Alerts for the phrase “Write for us”, so that I can be notified when websites and blogs call for submissions from writers. Other alternative key phrases could be “writer needed” or “looking for writer”. Just replace “writer” with whatever your job title is, and you can receive alerts every time someone posts a ...

8 Tools to Track Your Footprints on the Web
ReadWriteWeb — ... We couldn't end this post without mentioning Google Alerts, although likely most of you are familiar with it. Although Microsoft and Yahoo have alert tools, Google's offering beats them hands down. It offers e-mail and RSS alerts for any set of keywords including your name. ...

Imagine there’s no Google (Part 1)
The Next Web — ... places to advertise. Speakign of which, some of them use… No Google Base So those easily accessible databases of products and features are gone too. But some of the knowledge was place into, oh dear… No Google Knol So those expert articles which attracted a little Adsense Revenue and a great deal of qualified traffic are no more. As are the collaborative communities which helped to create the documents. No Google Alerts No emails when my name is mentioned, or when a ...

Trackle makes Web alerts easy, manageable
Webware.com — ... I am a big, big fan of tools that monitor the Web. Some of my favorites include Google Alerts which I use to track where our stories show up, ...

Trackle: A Winner Among Alert Services
ReadWriteWeb — ... , a new service in the same genre. At first, we'll admit, our reaction to hearing there was yet another alerts service available was one of apathy - there are already plenty out there, including the old standby, Google Alerts - who needs another? As it turn out, Trackle was the one we were waiting for. After playing around with Trackle, it was clear that this one could be a winner. ...

Personal Branding 102: How to Communicate & Maintain Your Brand
Mashable! — Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. In my previous post, Personal Branding 101, we discussed the importance of branding in this web 2.0 world, as well as how to discover and create your brand. In Personal Branding 102 we’ll discuss how you’ll communicate your personal brand, using social media tools and proven marketing tactics, and then how to sustain your future growth by performing brand maintenance. ...

Who is Better Suited to Building A Site Online Presence?
Search Engine Journal — ... Take it upon yourself to create profiles at social media sites, sign up at forums that fit your employer or client’s niche, create Google Alerts and build an list of blogs and sites that may be important to their niche. You don’t have find every site. You don’t want to overwhelm then. Just give them a taste to see how much they can handle. ...

Google’s Best practices against website hacking & preventions
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google will return all the indexed pages of your website that contain those spammy keywords and that are, with high probability, hacked. You could also use Google Alerts to monitor queries like above. In addition, you can also use, Google’s Webmaster Tools to spot any hacking activity on your site ...

Should RSS be Jettisoned On the Information Journey?
louisgray.com — ... Some number of years ago, I used e-mail alerts to scan Google Alerts notifications and RssFwd (recently shut down) to pipe RSS feeds to my e-mail account. These days, I've mostly moved my Google Alerts RSS feeds over to Google Reader for easier management. ...

DEMO: Gazaro launches its personal sales flyer
VentureBeat — ... so you don’t have to keep checking in on it. It can send alerts via email, RSS, or, later on, Twitter. You can list products, brands, and stores. The idea is to save you money in turbulent times by getting you the best deals without wasting your time. The company was founded in 2007 and has eight employees. Competitors include shopping sites such as FatWallet, Shop It To Me, and SlickDeals. There is also competition from notification systems such as Google Alerts and Yotify. According to the Journal of Retailer and Consumer Services, ...

Highlights of SxSWi: Susan Bratton (part 2) Blogging and Reputation Tracking
Podcasting News — ... .] Many simply use Google Alerts. If a blogger is writing about one of Dave’s key areas of focus, he comments on the blog to “stay active in conversations.” ...

Digital detritus of dead companies creates financial trouble
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... though some may argue it should have been able to recognize the pages in question consisted of credit card numbers and thus should have been excluded from caching or even indexing in the first place. Meanwhile, if you want peace of mind you really should take matters into your own hands, and I highly advise everyone to take advantage of Google Alerts themselves. It's easy to set up a daily alert that will let you monitor the web for new pages that include your name. Just visit the Google Alerts page, add your search terms (your name, in quotes, should be enough), and select ...

HOW TO: Leverage Social Media for Career Success
Mashable! — Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Social media tools are becoming mandatory for career success. They are free advertising and give you the ability to connect directly with hiring managers, entrepreneurs and recruiters, instead of applying for jobs through job boards, which are black holes.  Your digital assets — blog, podcast, and social networking profiles — are your online identity and how people discover and connect with you.  You have the ...

Gadgetwise: How to Manage Your Reputation Online
NYT > Technology — ... incorporates many of the above tips. Ms. Allison also changed her last name, which is another way to clean your Web footprint as is using a middle initial. It’s also useful to set up a Google news alert for your name so you can continue to monitor your brand. Remember, everything you put your name stamp on can potentially leave a lasting trail on the internet so, perhaps most importantly, think before you type. Have any other strategies for managing your rep online? Post them below. If we get enough, I’ll digest the best suggestions in a follow-up post.

5 Ways to Take Control of Your Personal Brand Today
Mashable! — Dan Schawbel is the author of the bestselling book Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. With a bad economy, more pressure at work and overwhelming competition, investing in yourself and your future is crucial.  There are a lot of new trends and tricks that you can take advantage of now.  Below are five easy and initial steps you can take to start building your brand today.  These will help you control your online identity, protect your future, centralize your digital assets, safeguard your ...

Taking the social media journey with Travers Collins & Company
theory.isthereason — ... , I had first-hand experience with the tedious aspect of mass media monitoring. Add the surveillance of social networks, and what could be relatively interesting can quickly turn into pure drudgery. Thankfully, with more news and conversations being shared online, I showed that it is getting easier for us to track what mainstream media as well as individual users are saying about particular ideas. At the basic level, there are free tracking tools on the web such as Google Alerts and ...

Starting the social media journey for communication agencies
theory.isthereason — ... , I had first-hand experience with the tedious aspect of mass media monitoring. Add the surveillance of social networks, and what could be relatively interesting can quickly turn into pure drudgery. Thankfully, with more news and conversations being shared online, I showed that it is getting easier for us to track what mainstream media as well as individual users are saying about particular ideas. At the basic level, there are free tracking tools on the web such as Google Alerts and ...

HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter
Mashable! — Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.  Follow him on Twitter @DanSchawbel. Today, Twitter has roughly 6 million users and is projected to grow to 18.1 million users by 2010. With all those people, the chances for networking are endless and connecting with new people can lead to career opportunities, so it is essential that your personal brand exists on the service. Last month we showed you a step-by-step process for building ...

Online Reputation Management: 16 Free Tools
SitePoint — ... 11. Google Alerts – Your keyword search results are sent via e-mail for keyword mentions in news, web, blogs, video and groups categories. ...

Crisis Communications for the Social Media Age [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... encounter moments of crisis — some as large as the Domino’s fiasco or as small as an old-fashioned person-to-person flame war. My advice is to plan now. Don’t wait for that communications crisis to take place before planning for how you’ll handle the fallout when something bad (inevitably) happens. Here’s a blueprint you can use for your own plan. 1. Pay attention. Whether you are using Google Alerts or Twilert or any other monitoring service to see when your name or brand ...

Killing Bad Search Results with Reputation Management
WebProNews Feed — ... for potential crisis issues - Mitigating crisis damage and rebuilding name reputation in search engine results Along with the solution, the company has launched an index for representing reputation across all the major search engines. They call this index the TruReputation Score. There are already plenty of tools out there that can help you manage your online reputation. One of the more well-known ones is Andy Beal's Trackur. There are also Google alerts, and Twitter search, which can both be especially helpful. Here's an ...

Which Social Media Tools Should You Use?
Fast Company - Technology — ... Another piece of technology I count on is Google Alerts! Go to Google and type "Google Alerts" or got to http://www.google.com/alerts. You do need to have a free Gmail account first. If you don't have a Gmail account, please when you are finished reading this have someone counsel you on why Gmail is a good idea. It's also free! But with a Google Alerts you can set up an alert by typing in any text you want, and anytime, anyplace in the world that the text is mentioned, you get an instant email notification. ...

HOW TO: Use Social Media for Enterprise Business
Mashable! — Companies such as Zappos, Dell, and JetBlue are all known as successes in harnessing the power of social media for business. However, the aforementioned businesses sell directly to consumers. How about the business that sells products to other businesses? What if you’re a company that builds inventory software or datacenters for the likes of Walmart? Is Twitter, Facebook, Ning, or a company blog going to be any use? In fact, the answer may surprise you. There are business-to-business companies that are utilizing the social web to find customers, to build up a reputation, and ...

Listening With More Than Two Ears
Inc.com — The Roman philosopher Epictetus said "We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less." On the Internet, the sentiment is the same - in this age of conversation, we need to listen to hear if our customers or our market is speaking to us. Many firms forget this, but listening is (or should be) the first part of your marketing or sales cycle. However, we don't only have two ears online - search and other tools can help you listen more effectively for markets or potential customers.  Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search tools can make it easy to search ...

Listening With More Than Two Ears
Inc.com — The Roman philosopher Epictetus said "We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less." On the Internet, the sentiment is the same - in this age of conversation, we need to listen to hear if our customers or our market is speaking to us. Many firms forget this, but listening is (or should be) the first part of your marketing or sales cycle. However, we don't only have two ears online - search and other tools can help you listen more effectively for markets or potential customers.  Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search tools can make it easy to search ...

Monitor Your Personal Brand Using Search Engine Alerts [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... my own name online every once in a while, setting a Google Alert on my name means I don’t have to do it so much. Every time Google finds a web page with my name on it, it emails me. Setting up a Google Alert is simple. Go to your Google account and choose “Alerts.” Type your full name in the Search Terms field. Then choose the type of search. I recommend a comprehensive search because then you’ll receive Google Alerts with results that span online news, blogs and other web sites. You then have the option to set the ...

Google Removes Alerts, RSS Buttons from News
ReadWriteWeb — ... RSS, Atom and email subscriptions for new news search results used to appear in the bottom of the left hand column of search results pages. Now there is nothing there. Both products are still available, if troubled, via the browser's RSS autodetection icon in the address bar and the Google Alerts product page. ...

Advice on Managing SMB Online Reputations
Screenwerk — ... alert can automatically inform you when your business is mentioned in a review, blog or online publication. Some review sites have features that automatically send e-mail alerts to business owners when a review is posted. ...

Finding an Old Card to Run New Apps
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... Buy It Now listings for your Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition. One piece of advice we can offer is to grab RSS feeds of your Craigslist searches so you don’t have to go to Craigslist to search for updates—this might help you notice new listings a little faster. After you perform a search, look at the bottom-right part of the page for the orange RSS link. Click that to get an RSS feed of the search results, which you can add to your RSS reader of choice. You can also set up a Google Alert ( www.google.com/alerts ) as an RSS feed; try entering radeon 9800 pro mac site:craigslist.org ...

Google Alerts Gets PubSubHubbub, Real-Time Programmable Hooks
louisgray.com — The Web is speeding up, and Google is playing a big role in making how we get our information faster - no matter its type. Recently, a pair of the company's engineers, Brett Slatkin and Brad Fitzpatrick, have teamed up to roll out a new protocol, PubSubHubbub, to accelerate just about every major part of the Google sphere in which I play - from Google Reader shared items to FeedBurner, Blogger and today, Google Alerts. If you thought Google Alerts was fast before, it's like Google went out and gave it an entirely new ...

Six Useful Things You Can Do With Google
Technologizer — ... Google sends me an e-mail every time it sees a new occurrence of “steve bass,” “earthquakes,” and keywords about my various hobbies and interests. If you haven’t tried Google Alerts, you’re missing out on a terrific service. ...

Is social media worth your marketing dollars?
VentureBeat — ... Current activity -First, you should be actively monitoring your brand. Are people talking about you online? Software products exist designed specifically to help you track company and product branding and PR firms often offer this as a service. Minimally, set up Google Alerts to track mentions. ...

Why Your Company Needs Social Media
Search Engine Journal — ... Google Alerts – Allows you to get email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. ...

3 New Facebook Strategies for Building Your Personal Brand
Mashable! — Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog and a columnist for BusinessWeek. With over 300 million users, no one can deny the power of Facebook. In fact, 50% of users log in every single day and spend over 6 billion minutes on the platform. What are they doing on it? Depending on the intent of the user, they’re sharing personal stories and updates, staying connected to friends and colleagues, and even building businesses. Many people only use their profile ...

18 Essential Tools for Every Word-of-Mouth Marketer
Mashable! — ... 2. Google Alerts is one of the most comprehensive social media tools out there; it monitors millions of blogs and news sites. Set up alerts to easily target keywords that are important to your brand and receive streaming or batched reports. Free. ...

HOW TO: Become an Expert in Your Industry
Mashable! — ... It’s not a bad idea to set up a Google Alert to search for news about your industry. Paying attention to news headlines is a great way to stay abreast of changes in your field. ...

10 Small Business Social Media Marketing Tips
Mashable! — ... First, set up Google Alerts. Google Alerts are free email updates from Google search results about any topic you’re interested in tracking. For example, I track, among other alerts, the names of our competitors, the name of our company, and certain other terms I believe are important to my business. Anytime Google adds something to its index that mentions my company or the other terms I’m tracking, I receive an immediate email notification with a link to that item. Alerts can be set up for web, blog, news, video, or groups searches. ...

Who’s Talking About You on the Internet?
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... 3. Google Alerts – Unlike Yahoo! News Alerts that primarily track mainstream media sources, Google Alerts will include stories* from blogs, regular web pages as well as traditional media if you go for the "comprehensive" option. You can even subscribe to Google Alerts in your favorite feed reader. ...