3° beta test
software connects a small group of family & close
friends
23 April 2004
show a
personalized animation on your friends' desktops, share a play
list, send digital photos, initiate group
chat with MSN Messenger.
5
best web based conferencing tools
7
June 2010
WebEx (Web-Based,
$US49/m); Tinychat (Web-Based,
Free); GoToMeeting
(Web-Based, $US49/month); Dimdim
(Web-Based, Basic: Free/Pro: $US25/month); Adobe ConnectNow
(Web-Based, Basic: Free, Premium: $US15/month);
ACCMAIL
2 January 2004
moderated forum for news, comments, questions & answers on
email-only methods: how to browse WWW, retrieve files from FTP
sites, read & post to Usenet newsgroups; ACCMAIL is primary
source of information, help & advice about email-only methods;
email listserv@listserv.aol.com with message in email body:
SUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL Firstname Lastname; access
protected archives, browse or search by email; Accmail techniques
AcqWeb's directory
of journals, newsletters & electronic discussion archives
26 August 2011
American Society
for Information Science & Technology Public Mailing Lists
16 January 2006
including a list for special interest group on blogs, wikis &
podcasting;
Aussie Phorums (Powered by
vBulletin® Version 3.6.7)
8 September 2007
Australian National
Forum
16 June 2005
not-for-profit, promoting democratic uses of Internet in
Australia; virtual Town Square supported by U of Sydney, Brisbane
Institute, QUT, Local Government Association of Queensland,
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Australians for a
Constitutional Monarchy & Oxfam Community Aid Abroad;
legislature – iParliament; speaker’s corner – The Domain;
conversations – On
Line Opinion; deliberative democracy – On Line Focus;
library – Issues Briefs;
Basic
netiquette for email lists & forums
17 February 2010
BinSearch: Binary Usenet
Search Engine
27 January 2007
6000+ newsgroups; recommend using a .nzb enabled news reader;
search defaults to most popular binary newsgroups;
BoardReader -
Message Board Search Engine
19 September 2001
732456 forums & message boards; find & display information
on forums, message boards; information most search engines dont
retrieve; select topic & category to search for keywords;
limit by date range; (2 Sept 2004) now using Vivismo clustering; covers web
sites that host user feedback, such as Amazon.com reviews &
Facebook discussions, Twitter & other microblogs, discussion
forum audio & video files, in addition to posts within
discussion groups & forums; Trendy(click More graphs on [your search words]
link below graph at top of search results page) charts frequency
of search term(s) over past 6 months similar to Blogpulse’s Trend Search;
Boardtracker message
board & discussion forum search engine
2 November 2005
monitor discussion boards, receive notification of new posts via
email or instant messenger, use as a search engine; customize
search criteria by topic, author, date, board
category(Entertainment, Health & Medicine; ); beta, difficult
to use, free basic account;
BrainTalk Communities
30 August 2005
300+ free online groups for neurological conditions(Alzheimer
disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, chronic pain,
epilepsy, Huntington disease);
British
Library Archives Email
19 October 2004
world's first digital manuscripts curator to collect email
messages authored by nation's top authors & scientists
CataList
official catalog of LISTSERV mailing lists
5 May 2003
75450 public lists from 280228 LISTSERV lists; view by host
country, view lists with 1000+ or 10000+ subscribers; search by
keyword; limit search to list name, host name, or list title,
limit to lists that only have a Web archive interface; search for
lists hosts
Chemical-Information-Sources-SNS
global Facebook group
19 September 2007
forum and venue for presentation, consideration, & discussion
of any & all matters relating to Chemical Information;
Collections
Australia Network
28 January 2007
cultural heritage collections online; federated search(coming);
discussion lists; exhibitions; venues;
Conversate
30 July 2005
create online discussion spaces simpler, faster, more polite, and
less annoying than group emails; Site of the month in Library +
Information Update, July/August.
Conversational
Monitoring System(CMS)
1
July 2009
Vanilla
open-source, standards-compliant, fully extensible discussion
forum CMS: conversations &no smileys, bandwidth-hogging
signatures, mailbox, forum categories; uses AJAX for fast,
simplecommunication; Interview
with founder;
craigslist
discussion
forums
7 January 2006
Current
Awareness
Discovery Tools on the Internet(V9No5, May 2011, Awareness Watch
Newsletter) 30 April 2011
Articles & trade journals; Listservs; Newsgroups, message
boards & forums; Email alerts; Web site & page monitoring
bots; Weblogs; RSS feeds; News aggregators; Subject tracer
information blogs; Search engines, asnwer engines & subject
trees;
CyberFiber® Newsgroups
directory to USENET & .alt newsgroups
20 February 2006
Dipity search engine for
message boards
29
February 2008
indexes 2300+ communities & 29m conversations divided
into health, legal, money, & pet care; tag cloud of topics to
search within categories;
Directory of Scholarly
& Professional E-Conferences
1 March
2002
Diane Kovacs Directory of Scholarly & Professional
E-Conferences back online
eScribe.com Search for a
mailing list archive
21 September 2004
Facebook social utility
30 June 2007
network friends & others; upload unlimited photos, share links
& videos; 2nd most-trafficked PHP site & among largest
MySQL installations; lightweight powerful multi-language RPC
framework allows seamless integration of subsystems in any
language on any platform; largest user of memcached
open-source caching system; custom-built search engine serving
millions of queries/day, completely distributed, entirely
in-memory, with real-time updates; 21 Mar 2012: Facebook
launches interest lists: incorporating feeds of subjects
& topics functionality similar to Pinterest pinboard social photo
sharing service & Flipboard
application collecting content of social networks & other
websites(usually via RSS) & presenting results in a magazine
style format;
Finding
Treasure in Boards & Forums (SearchEngineWatch
6/10/05)
16 October 2005
Folksonomies
overview
25 March 2005
user-created tagging systems; groups of people organize
information by adding keywords; See Flickr & del.icio.us; applications for
news media;
Forums
& Web boards(IPL 15 Things #12)
9
February 2010
Forum
Search(Newsgroups, mailing & discussion lists, Listserv,
Usenet)
25 October 2008
Forum Zilla
23 April 2004
online forum directory includes name, URL, number of users, date
launched, software used; actively seeking editors
Giganews subscription
newsfeed US$34.99/m for unlimited Usenet & 50 connections +256
bit SSL 21 November 2011
Usenet services for consumers, Internet service providers,
telecommunications companies, & multi-service operators in
170+ different countries; cheapest subscription is US$4.99/m
for 5 Gb transfers, 30 days retention, 20 connecyions & 256
bit SSL;
Gmane mail-to-news
gateway
3 July 2005
messages never expire from server, gateway is bidirectional; post
to mailing lists without subscribing; spam detection, cross-post
handling, TMDA-fueled encryption/forwarding service, web
interface, respects X-No-Archive, supplies RSS feeds, uses SPF,
features user- defined filters, gathers traffic statistics,
real-time indexing search engine; 7372 mailing lists(mainly
computer-related) with 29992211 messages;
Google+
in limited free trial; Google+
for social networking; search
engine land review Guide;
30 June 2011
9 Aug 2011: Privacy
smackdown: Facebook versus Google+; 9 October 2011: G+
is extending across all G services - search, ads, Chrome,
Android, Maps, YouTube because social-activity data & social
signals help improve search & targetted advertising; Google Plus
Circles
for sharing the right things with the right people; Hangouts
for unplanned meet-up; Sparks looks for videos &
articlesfor you; Mobile Instant upload; Mobile Huddle -
group chat; an
overview; Complete
Google Plus cheat sheet; 18
Oct 2011: Topsy Labs
launches Beta realtime search
engine for public Google+ posts;
Google Groups: the USENET
archives
27 December 2001
largest Usenet newsgroup archive on Net; basics about reading,
posting & participating in these online discussion groups.
Google Groups 2
create,
join free, search mailing lists
14 June 2004
group
dedicated to Google Groups 2 Listings show how many members,
active topics & link to start new topic (if allowed in group);
browse groups via syndicated format; RSS feeds(Atom format); Atom
feed for Google's public support group; Starting
in November 2010, Groups will no longer allow creation or
editing of files & pages; content will only be available for
viewing, & only existing files will be able to be downloaded.
If you would like to keep content currently on pages & files
sections of your group, we highly encourage you to export &
migrate it to another product. In February 2011, we will turn off
the pages & files
features, & you will no longer be able to access that content;
http://groups-announcements.blogspot.com/2010/09/notice-about-pages-and-files.html;
December
7,
2010: Preview
the
new
Google Groups;
Google
search for non-USENET groups - include phrase "next
thread" in your search
1 July 2006
Grammar Gang(U
of South Australia & Purdue U)
6 September 2008
Weekly grammar tip; Submit your sentence to comments, by: Selecting
anonymous OR Google Blogger OR Name/URL; See also Purdue OWL(Online
Writing Lab) grammar & mechanics links;
GUBA RSS(Really Simple
Syndication) newsfeeds summarizing new video content
13 January 2006
search, download multimedia on Usenet newsgroups; preview
video files prior to download via frame extraction;
automatically remove files protected by digital rights
management blacklists; compare images & identify/delete identical
image files; US $14.95;
Harley Hahn's Master List
of Usenet Newsgroups
6 September 2001
old Usenet listings reviewed & annotated by Harley Hahn;
updated as new groups are added & old groups go out of date;
browse or search.
H-Net Discussion Forums
26 May 2007
function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers
& students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas & materials
How
To Find Message Boards
25 July 2006
How
to find answer in other people’s discussions
19 October 2009
I Help You Free
Search Engine Forums
12 January 2003
friendly, informal forums moderated by experts in search engine
marketing
Internet FAQ Archives: Usenet FAQs By Newsgroup 14 September 2001
Introduction
to the *.answers newsgroups
14 September 2001
news.answers newsgroup repository for periodic informational
postings (including Frequently Asked Questions,or FAQ's) from
other Usenet newsgroups.
JISC Mail: National Academic
Mailing List Service
February 2002
Facilitating Discussion, Collaboration & Communication within
UK Academic Community & beyond
JumpCity signed
review of each item & link to any related Usenet
newsgroup
17 November 2003
Kolabora
9 February 2004
learn & discuss online collaboration issues, methods, tools
& technologies; Web conferencing
LISTFISH
2 November 2002
search engine to help find email publications, updated regularly;
science, computers, sports, fashion, government, culture, &
for under 21's
Listorious
direcory to finds lists of Twitter users on any given
topic
17 November 2009
LISTSERV 29 October 2003
LISTSERV lists hosted in Australia 4 November 2001
Listserv Tips and Other Research Tricks 31 July 2003
Free Listserver
ASP Comparison:
17
April 2002
Yahoo! Groups & Topica Exchange - main
companies in industry; bCentral's free ListBot discontinued &
re-offered as a paid ASP called ListBuilder. Yahoo!
Groups, largest free service, acquired eGroups.com, which
previously acquired OneList.com; use Topica & Yahoo! Groups
for both newsletters & e-mail discussion groups; Yahoo! Groups
is better for e-mail discussion groups with special features for
moderators
listTool.com
29 October 2006
free subscribing, unsubscribing & sending commands to 878
mailing & discussion lists in categories such as law, art,
music, computers, news, business, humor;
LitMinds
community
23 June 2007
readers, authors, independent booksellers share reading interests,
make friends, converse free;
LLEK
- Forums
24 August 2004
Mail Archive
21 September 2004
free archiving service without warranty for electronic mailing
lists; 1990 lists currently; basic keyword searching only
Mailbase
5 May 2006
UK national service providing electronic discussion lists &
information sharing facilities for all sectors
Mailing
lists
- basics
12 November 2004
MessageKing message
board search engine
20 February 2002
search for specific discussion topics on message boards &
forums
National Forum(TNF:
Australia)
not-for-profit promotion for democratic uses of Internet in
Australia; virtual Town Square free democratic space for citizens,
& shop fronts for institutions; members include University of
Melbourne, Brisbane Institute, QUT, Local Government Association
of Queensland, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Australians
for a Constitutional Monarchy & Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, as
well as prominent individuals and parliamentarians;
Newsreaders
12 September 2006
Xnews
& Agent,
NewsLeecher
& NewsBin Pro; GrabIt:
described
for Noobs open source newsreader for accessing content
& assembling split files - getting files from Usenet is more
difficult than from P2P programs. Large files must be split over
multiple posts due to technical limitations; supports multiple
servers, concurrent server connections, & SSL encryption;
tweak advanced settings such as article cache size & error
handling in the preferences window; free, paid subscription
service allows you to search articles without downloading
bandwidth-consuming headers. The program functions fully without
this subscription;
Newzbot: public USENET
resources
19 September
2005
Server lists sorted by group count, longevity, speed, freshness,
rating
Omgili Search Engine for
web-based discussion forums
14 January 2006
Forums, Discussion groups, Mailing lists, answer boards; keyword
search, special syntax; advanced search; Enter query, doubleclick
on word in query. An i pops up. Mouseover i to limit query word
search to title, topic, or reply, or exclude altogether; consumer
opinions, debates, discussions, personal experiences, answers
& solutions; Omgili's Crawlers recognize board software such
as phpBB, VBulletin, YaBB, SMF, Invision, Snitz, FuseTalk; FAQ; Omgili Buzz daily overview of
popular discussion topics; Omgili Graphs
chatter about topics of your choice; proprietary algorithm
analyzes complete discussion(thread) to detect structure (the
different posts), their dates, user names, signatures etc; Omgili Product Reviews;
See also BoardTracker;
search algorithm analyzes forums giving title of discussion
thread, extract where Omgili hopes to find an answer, links to
source & other discussions on the same topic; sort results by
relevance or date; buzz chart shows amount of discussions on topic
in past month; (Feb 09) indexing social media sites including
Digg, MySpace;
Online Community
Report
3 March 2002
free twice-monthly newsletter covering news & best ideas in
online collaboration
On Line Opinion
not-for-profit Australian e-journal
14 November 2007
forum for public social & political debate about current
Australian issues; articles to stimulate public discourse on a
range of topics are gathered from a variety of independent
sources;
Ozlists:
Australian Electronic Mailing Lists
now
decommissioned
13 June 2009
directory/listing for non-commercial electronic mailling lists
based in Australia or primarily concerned with Australian content;
Project Wombat
10 March 2006
e-mail discussion list for difficult reference questions; free
membership, non-members may submit questions; 3 versions: main
list follows off-beat, eclectic tone set by Stumpers list, &
“moderated in retrospect” like that list; Project Wombat FM filtered
version in which only questions & answers are distributed, as
frequently requested by busy readers; Project Wombat Open has minimal filtering to
keep out spam, all posts from subscribers are accepted;
Publicly Available Mailing Lists(PAML) 6 February 2002
Real Time
Search See also Social
Media Search Engines
26 April 2009
From static
to realtime search, John Battelle; Twitter Power Search;
Scoopler: real-time
search for social content; indexing live updates from
services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious - Scoopler: real-time
search for social content; Twitter Search (review);
OneRiot
IE8 Add-On for real time search; Collecta
monitors update streams of news sites, popular blogs & social
media, Twitter, blogs & Flickr; Crowdeye indexes Twitter Tweets
matching messages for a query, showing links, tagcloud of popular
words, & hash tags(when available); searches up to 3 days,
& shows volume chart; Future
of search: Social Relevancy Rank; Topsy; Itpints real-time search of Backtype & Twitter for cuurent awareness; 4
things to consider choosing a Real-Time Search Engine(feedmil); See also Real-Time
Web: A Primer, Part
1; Part
2; Part
3; Make
Google search real-time with URL hack(Query Date Range search
option: limit search to the last day qdr:d, last minute qdr:n,
last 10 minutes qdr:n10, last 30 seconds qdr:s30; Typepad paid
blogging service updates now in real time using Google-backed
real-time protocol Pubsubhubbub,
Atom-centric alternative to real-time protocol RSSCloud which competitor
WordPress turned on last week; Real time
search: Part1:
Intro; Part
2: The RAM monster ; Part3:
The sliding window; Part4: ; Leapfish
now a multi-media & real-time search, communication, &
sharing platform;
Redball.info searchable access to 100000 newsgroups; 90000 mailing lists 7 October 2004
Scintilla(Nature
Publishing Group)
22 June 2007
collects data from hundreds of news outlets, scientific blogs,
journals & databases for you to organise, share &
discover;
Search Engine Watch Forums 10 June 2004
Search
information managers
27 March 2004
Onfolio embeds in Web
browser; collect, organize, share search results; 1-click buttons,
tabs, IE-style file system; search activities captured, organized,
customized within Onfolio file structure; professional edition for
rapid publishing to Web or RSS syndication feed; 30-day free
trial; standard edition $30, professional edition $80; see
also delicious, Furl, Content Saver, Eurekster, Orkut
Searching
Email Discussion Group Archives & Usenet Newsgroup Archives
28 December 2008
Slyck's Guide to The
Newsgroups
12 September 2006
Social network collaborations
6 March 2004
web based collaboration started with Friendster; Eurekster learns behavior of users &
social networks to deliver personalised search results to
extended communities; searches shared anonymously; Orkut invitation-only
site(Orkut
Buyukkokten,
Google software engineer) ; www.ryze.org
& www.zerodegrees.com
offer similar services with business focus synchronized with
Outlook; apophenia blog
follows social software reviews
(& bags Orkut); Lycos hub
for personal connections; dating, business, family,
health; Ryze, Linkedin, Simpy, del.icio.us, Spurl,
& furl (bought by LookSmart
for targeted contextual ads Sept 2004) - aka Social
bookmarking - See also Search
information managers(above) & FOAF:
Using open standards to support community building
; Friend of a
Friend (FOAF) machine- readable; people, links between them,
what they create & do; See also Circles
Of Trust: Influence Indicators On The Internet
SPARC (Scholarly
Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
17 December 2009
SPARC in collaboration with stakeholders – including authors,
publishers, & libraries – builds on unprecedented
opportunities created by networked digital environment to advance
conduct of scholarship; Publications;
Resources for
Publishers; SPARC-ACRL
Forum;
Spire Project:
Discussion Groups
14 September 2001
Mailing Lists, Newsgroups, Associations are focal points of
discussion, exchange of information & professional
development. Collectively called Special Interest Groups(SIGs);
contact point for experts, or site of focused, specialized
libraries.
Tagging
See also Folksonomies
25
March 2005
Talk Digger
17 July 2006
find, follow, join conversations; URL of BBC news item, blog post, product page; paste URL in Talk Digger search box & press Dig it!;
Talk Digger then asks search engines "Who linked to that URL?"
;
Tile.net: The Reference Guide to
Email Newsletters & Discussion Lists & USENET newsgroups 16
October 2005
Topica
like Yahoo offers
discussion groups on a wide range of topics; create your own email
or web-based discussion list at either site;
Topsy realtime social search
engine for consumers
18
October 2011
large-scale systems & databases designed to index databanks of
authored content in realtime; algorithms rank content based upon
influence graphs; deployed by online publishers, search engines,
content aggregators & marketers, with 1/2b queries/m; 18
Oct 2011: Topsy Labs
launches Beta realtime search
engine for public Google+ posts;
Triceron.com
list of subscription based Usenet feed providers primarily
featuring uncensored newsgroup postings; often have a retention
rate of only 7-60 days;
Twing online community &
forum search engine
8 March 2008
analyzes parts of a forum post (topic information, subject, text,
number of replies, etc) to provide search results matching term(s)
searched;
Twitter search services T.
search; Advanced
search;
20 October 2009
word-cloud generator & Firefox add-on
Search
Cloudlet; Summize searches Twitter
in real time; 3
ways to search Twitter; Twilert
Twitter search alerts via email; Twitscoop:
tweet, search & monitor Twitter in real-time
for news & info flows; Filtering
Twitter's
noise with Mixero;
Summize’s Twitter
Search; TwellowTwitter
search
directory;
Twitter
authority search: Twitority
sorts search results by any authority: “any”, “little” or
“a lot” in descending or ascending popularity. No live
update of search results & no RSS feeds offered; Twithority displays
results in 2 columns: Top 10000 by rank authority
algorithm & Top 10000 by time; RSS feed; See also How
to search Twitter effectively; Using
& finding Twitter Lists including Listorious directory; MustExist
finds Twitter Lists by exploring tags; 25 Nov 2011:
Guide
to using T in university research, teaching, & impact
activities;
Usenet FAQ
Archive Search
2 September 2003
See also Harley Hahn's
Master List of Usenet Newsgroups & Triceron.com; See also BinSearch above; (Oct
2009)Google’s
abandoned library of 700m titles; (8 Oct 09)Google
fixes Usenet Archive; GrabIt
Described for Noobs(open
source tool for accessing Usenet content & assembling split
files) 5
Jan 2010; 3 June 2010: Duke U
shuts down its Usenet Server, Electronic newsgroups began at
Duke in 1979; Usenet Archives
collected by Norman Yarvin; 20 Sept
2011: OldUse.Net historical
recreation updated in real time of Usenet as it was 30 years
ago, with classic green-on-black styling; read each Usenet post
synchronised from past using a command-line interface or your
newsreader via nntp.olduse.net;
Usenet search See Forum
Search(Newsgroups, mailing & discussion lists,
Listserv, Usenet) 25 October 2008
21
Nov 2011: Giganews
Usenet reaches 1200 days retention;
Usenet:
uncommon-sense.net view Usenet distributed discussion
network
12 September 2001
separated into different fora called newsgroups; Google
Groups: 20 Year Usenet Timeline memorable articles &
threads in Usenet discussion groups since1981 compiled from
significant Usenet archival resources; Usenet Archives collected by
Norman Yarvin; Get
started
with
Usenet
in
3 simple steps; 12 Jan 2012: How
to make use of Usenet for file sharing(download password
makeuseof);
Waypath feeds from 3m
weblogs
21
September 2004
Topic streams aggregate
topic-specific information; OPML(Outline Processor
Markup Language) XML format exchanges
outline-structured information between applications running on
different operating systems & environments;
keyword, Boolean & URL searches
Web
Access to Your Usenet Groups
9
August 2001
sources that help you get started; most free, some charge for this
service; Laura Schneider, About's Guide to Internet Conferencing
shows options for accessing Usenet groups: Liquid Information,
EasyUsenet.com, Extra Newsguy;
Web Forums,
Discussion Groups, & Instant Messaging
21 April 2006
Webmaster World
discussion forum for professional Web marketers
12 January 2003
Traffic increased threefold during 2002; competent search engine
optimization experts, professional & non professional; rumors,
search engine news & analysis of latest trends by well know
experts like Webmaster World chief himself, Brett Tabke.
Web
Search Guide Discussion Groups
10 February 2006
Web Search Guide: Tutorials - Discussion Groups 25 March 2005
Web Search Guide - What are mailing lists? 10 February 2006
Web Search Guide - What are newsgroups? 10 February 2006
Yahoo
plans Groups improvements See Yahoo
Groups blog
18 July 2008
Yuku social networks, forums, chats
26 August 2011
Zhift forums
search engine
30 April 2009