Posted in Information Retrieval on Sep 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I performed a quick research on freeware web monitoring applications. By web monitoring application I mean a desktop application offering at least the following functionality:
The user enters a list of web pages to be monitored.
For each web page, the user assigns custom rules that tell what kind of updates she is interested in (eg. all […]
Posted in Information Retrieval, Public Relations, Social Media on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
The role of Usenet in opinion sharing is not as important as it used to be. Wikipedia’s definition of social media doesn’t even include this medium and I guess that most of today’s Internet users don’t know the term at all.
Nevertheless, there’s still a lot of traffic in Usenet, for example in such groups as […]
Posted in Information Retrieval on Apr 10th, 2007 No Comments »
A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me about an efficient way to monitor an auction website for new tenders. The site didn’t offer a RSS feed so it was not possible just to use a feed reader. This inspired me to perform a quick search on free feed creation tools, ie tools […]