Another day, another real-time search tool to add to your competitive intelligence research toolkit.
itpints allows you to submit keyword(s) to search for relevant content on social networking platforms and blogs. Figure 1 below illustrates a test for a query using the keywords, “Gourmet Magazine“, the very popular cuisine magazine that has ceased publication two weeks ago by Condé Nast.
Figure 1: Results of search for “Gourmet Magazine” on itpints
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By browsing through the results, one can see that the tool pulls content from such Web 2.0 applications as:
- Plurk
- Friendfeed
Any relevant content found by itpints on Digg and blogs will be presented as an abstract as seen in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Abstracts from Digg and a blog for keyword search, “Gourmet Magazine”
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The beta version of itpints can found at www.itpints.com
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