First things first. Here are links to the two primary charities coordinating the disaster relief in Haiti:
For obvious reasons, this search channel was hastily created. The Haiti channel was designed to search vetted news and local Haitian resources.
Primary Searches
To add the Haiti Search Channel to your Buttonall, Go to the Customization Screen and Scroll down to “Countries :: Haiti.” You may also want to download the Miami Channel (Cities :: Miami).
Miami Media
National Media
UK Media
Local Media in Haiti (Kreyòl/French)
ButtonALL is an extremely powerful shopping sales research tool. No joke:
(reprints from last year)
ButtonALL was recently featured in Eleftherotypia…if your Greek is rusty that would be the Athens Free Press, one the largest newspapers in the country.
I honestly haven’t been this excited about a press clipping since we made Indian MTV.
Tried Babelfishing our excerpt (right under the section that highlighted the Cannes Film Festival’s website. Good company)….I think they’re saying nice stuff:
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Ah yes, Charlottesville. The mighty big small town. Always on some kind of Top 10 Livable Cities list. Home of The University (our chief engineer/founder is a proud graduate). Cultural/Media per-capita capital of the world (How does a town of 45,000 sustain two high quality alt-weeklies?). Home of some amazing blogs, too (though the iconic Cvillain–think small town Gawker–sadly closed its doors recently due to legal headaches). Yes, I’m gushing as I <3 Cville.
For the Charlottesville search engines, we chose the following:
The daily paper serving Charlottesville is the Daily Progress. We could not use its search string but have incorporated it into the Cville ALL search engine. This search engine searches within the following locally-relevant resources (again, marvel at the concentration of quality local media for a town this size):
To add the Charlotteville Search Engine Channel to your ButtonALL, enter the customization screen and drop down on Cities :: Charlotteville.
East of Richmond (ButtonALL’s hometown), there lies a tunnel and some traffic. Before and beyond that tunnel is the “757.” The birthplace of our country began in the Hampton Roads section of Virginia. For the Hampton Roads search channel, we chose the two main newspapers servicing that region. Here are the five buttons:
The Hampton Roads ALL Search Engine only indexes local websites, hence, when you enter a key word, your search results will be locally relevant.
In addition to the websites listed above, here are the rest of the websites we index:
To add the Hampton Roads Search Engine Channels to your ButtonALL, enter the customization screen and drop down on Cities :: Hampton Roads.
The latest city search engine comes to us from Western Pennsylvannia. The five search engines chosen were as follows:
*Unfortunately, we could not work with the strings for the Post-Gazette or City Paper to create individual buttons; however, the “PITT ALL” search engine indexes both of these periodicals as well as:
The “City ALL” search engines have been very popular with local residents who are looking for just local resources. Give it a test drive. Type “best sandwich” in the search field, for example, and you’re bound to get some results talking about Primanti’s…MMMM, I could go for one of those right now.
To add the Pittsburgh Search Engine Channels to your ButtonALL, enter the customization screen and drop down on Cities :: Pittsburgh
The growth of Twitter is documented, some kind of amazing. My goodness, it even made the cover of Time Magazine (of course, who reads print magazines anymore when you can craft a well-designed Twitter feed?).
Growing concurrently at an equally hyper rate are the various Twitter Apps. It has gotten so big, so fast in fact that we actually had to create another “Twitter Search” channel just to accommodate all the new players.
ButtonALL gives you access to all of these wonderful Twitter search tools from one place, one page. We think it’ll make a fantastic time-saving, research tool to track specific trends making their way through the cultural zeitgeist.
Here is a summary of ButtonALL’s two Twitter channels:
Twitter Channel 1
- Twitter (Wikipedia | Twitter | Crunchbase) Makes sense to start with this one. Twitter’s search engine DNA comes from Summize, a Virginia-based company! that Twitter acquired last year.
- CrowdEye (Twitter | Crunchbase) Real-time social search engine that aggregates results in various list and visual summarizations (frequencies, link popularity, tags popularity, etc).
- Topsy (Twitter | Crunchbase) A search engine that weighs search results by Twitter linking activity (quantity and quality of referral). RT = Relevance.
- Scoopler (Wikipedia | Twitter | Crunchbase) A “real-time search engine” that indexes a number of social media sources like Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. Great for searching breaking stories as they happen.
- BackTweets (Twitter | Crunchbase) This is a nice tool to track URLs by searching for tweets containing that particular link. Observe how the Twitter community is re-tweeting (RTing) and reacting to a web page.
Twitter Channel2
- Twazzup (Twitter | Crunchbase) Human-assisted Twitter search engine. Think Mahalo meets Twitter search. Includes a “most popular” side bar.
- Tweet Scan (Twitter | Crunchbase) Microblogging search engine that scans Twitter, identi.ca and other Laconica-based sites.
- Twellow (Twitter | Crunchbase) Sort of a Twitter yellow pages/directory where you can find people and organizations by subject categories, expertise, or personal attributes.
- Tweetag (Twitter | Crunchbase) A Twitter search engine that emphasizes 40 of the most frequent tags (”#s”) being discussed. The more it’s discussed, the heavier the search result weighting.
- Twicsy (Twitter | Crunchbase) A photo search engine that looks for pictures being shared on Twitter (ie, twitpics).
To add the Twitter Search Engine Channels to your ButtonALL, you can go to the customization screen and drop down on Blogs:: Twitter Search.
Remember, in the customization screen, you can always add, delete, and re-arrange channel orders (via drag n drop).
Bibiliography
Third channel?? Yes, while researching for this article, I came across another set of good Twitter search candidates/resources. Gonna need a bigger boat.
The Tampa Bay Local Search Engine Channel has been created. To add the Tampa/St Pete channel to your ButtonALL you can go to the customization screen and drop down on Cities:: Tampa Bay. Remember, in the customization screen, you can re-arrange, add, and delete your search engine preferences. The inaugural search channels for Tampa are as follows:
**OK, so what’s Tampa ALL? This is a new feature we are launching for all local city search channels. Up until this point, it has been difficult to winnow the search candidates down to just five choices/buttons for each city. Sometimes as in the case of NYC, we had to create two channels for the city.
All local channels will now incorporate a Google Custom Search Engine (last red button–”City ALL”) that only searches the local media of a particular town (newspapers, magazines, television, and bloggers). In the case of Tampa, the CSE only searches the following resources:
By getting rid of the noise, this strategy allows for more of a refined search of local-only resources. For example, type the term “best restaurants”, and you will only get results relevant to that city. Pretty cool.
As part of our live search building feature on Twitter, we chose Cleveland, Ohio as our next search engine channel.
To add the Cleveland channel to your ButtonALL you can go to the customization screen and drop down on Cities:: Cleveland. OR just click here (click once, or it’ll continue to add this search row. Remember, you can always delete and re-arrange in the customization section). The inaugural search channels are as follows:
There is quite a bit of work backlog here at ButtonALL. We have a number of search channels on our “to do” list. How to prioritize? Easy, just ask the customer. About an hour or so ago, I asked our Twitter community if they wanted to see a search channel added. Jordan Brown of Salt Lake City responded pretty quickly by asking for a SLC Search Engine…Well, Mr. Brown, here ya go…
To add the Salt Lake City channel to your ButtonALL you can go to the customization screen and drop down on Cities:: Salt Lake City. OR just click here (click once, or it’ll continue to add this search row. Remember, you can always delete and re-arrange in the customization section). The inaugural search channels are as follows:
THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!
