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About Us

ZapTXT is a free service that lets you keep track of Web sites in real time. You can use it to do all kinds of things - find a job, get an apartment, track your favorite blogs, or sports teams (see examples) - via email, instant messenger, or mobile device. Technically, this involves RSS and OPML, if you care about such things.

Why should you care?

Because ZapTXT is just plain useful. If you're like most Web users, you probably keep up with a handful of Web sites. There are just too many sites out there, and not enough time. ZapTXT can do it for you. Just tell us what you're interested in, which Web sites you'd like to follow, and we'll do the rest. You can get on with your life.

What's a ZapTask?

OK, we know, it sounds a little cute, but we had to call it something. A ZapTask is, essentially, what you create with ZapTXT. It's the combination of keyword(s) and Web sites that triggers messages to your email, IM address or mobile device. Here are a few examples:

* For Users

News: Create ZapTasks around specific topics for a set of blogs or news sites. We'll monitor your chosen sites and notify you as soon as something that interests you shows up. Or monitor the entire blogsphere for key words by using RSS feeds from cool search engines such as Sphere or Google Blog Search.

Interested in monitoring what users say about a particular post on a blog. Simply create a ZapTask for the comments section (note: the blog must support RSS for Comments) and you'll receive an alert with the headline, everytime someone comments on the blog. It's a pretty neat alternative to manually monitoring comments.

Classifieds: Let the deal come to you. Define search terms for gigs, items for sale, apartments or events on RSS enabled classified sites such as Craigslist, Simply Hired or eBay, and ZapTXT will alert you when we find a match.

Research: Need to monitor a company, a competitor or just a topic of interest? ZapTXT takes care of time consuming research, allowing you to get on with your life.

New Releases: Be the first to know when a new song shows up on iTunes or a video on YouTube or when your favorite book hits news stands. ZapTXT will monitor your favorite publisher sites for your chosen topics and bring the information right to your in box, as an instant message or SMS.

* For Publishers:

Whether you write a blog, a column in a magazine or you're a teacher trying to get homework notifications out to students - add the handy ZapTXT widget to your website to notify readers about topics that match their interest. Just make sure that your feed is RSS 2.0.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

whonu.com - be amazed at what you discover

My name is Derek Franklin. I am the creator/developer of whonu.com.

In addition to developing this unique online search/discovery tool, I've been known to write a book or two for Macromedia Press on the subject of Macromedia Flash.

Why did I create/develop whonu? Mainly it was because I saw the need for a tool that tapped into the power of multiple search engines because, in my personal quest for information online, I discovered that while there were many search technologies out there, each had their own definite strengths and weaknesses.

I felt that if I could bring together the power of all these great search tools into a single interface, I just might have the research, discovery, idea-generating tool I've been looking for. Thus, whonu.com was born.

whonu.com didn't begin nearly as ambitious as it turned out (ambitious from my perspective). The original plan was just to only tap into Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, and a few other sources, but as I began developing it, I discovered some pretty amazing technologies out there that, if I included them, would simply make whonu.com a premiere search destination.

In addition, whonu contains a number of search innovations and tools. Look for even more as time goes on.

Thanks for visiting whonu.com, and I hope you continue to use it to help you connect and discover the information and content that you want.

Please feel free to share any questions, comments or feedback you may have. I can't promise I'll be able to respond to all questions or inquiries, but ask anyone who knows me, I do my very best to try to.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Peter Forret - forret.com bvba

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Technorati Search

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Technorati Favorites

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Sunday, February 25, 2007

Talk Digger: The best way to find, follow and enter conversations of the Web

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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Sphere - Blog Search and Discovery

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Saturday, February 10, 2007