Researching the Social Web

1. Alerts:

GoogleAlerts
Tweetbeep
Socialmention

2.Feeds und Feedreader:

Netvibes
Newsgator
GoogleReader

3.Soziales Verschlagworten:

De.licio.us
MisterWong
MrTaggy


4. Applikationen in Social Networks selbst

Facebook Lexikon nur mit FB-Anmeldung
InsideFB
Facebook Adonomics

5. Suchplattformen

Wikia

6.Social Search

Bing
Zakta
80legs
Collecta
Rankspeed
Stylight
Duckduckgo
Sidestripe für FB
Socialmention
Mashable
Leapfisch

7. Frage-Antwort-Dienste, Expertensuche

Cosmiq
Yahoo-Answers
LinkedIn mit Anmeldung



8. Umfragen

Surveymonkey

9. Twitter bezogene Suchdienste:

tweetbeep
twubs
tweetMeme
twittersheep
tweetworks
twitority
songly
wefollow
twazzup
twitalyzer
twollo
topsy
tweepler
twitition
twitterfall
backtweets
searchtastic
lizzer (Mikro-)Blogging-Tool


10. Textdokumente und Powerpoint-Präsentationen

docmacy
slideshare
scribd
docstoc

10.a. Youtube

YoutubeWissenschaft


11. Statistiken und Daten

Nielsen Net-Ratings
Hitwise
Statista
Hootsuite
PEW Internet
w3counter
Internet Welt-Statistiken
Alexa


12. Online-Notizen

UberNote
Webnote
RememberTheMilk
Backpack
tasktoy
zoho
syncnotes

McCann research

Universal MCCann: Blogging shows no signs of slowing its growing prominence in popular culture and society - figures and statistics.

The link doesn't work, apparently, so that's the URL:

http://www.universalmccann.com/assets/wave_3_20080403093750.pdf

A Weblog Webliography

Great collection from Kairosnews, a weblog for discussing rhetoric, technology and pedagogy

Teens and Social Media

Family, Friends & Community - Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media

Pew-Internet by Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Alexandra Ranking, Macgill Aaron Smith.

Teens and Online Social Networks

There's new research on teens:

Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks.

How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of Myspace (April 18, 2007), by Amanda Lenhart and Mary Madden - via PEW Internet & American Life Project.

Research Synopsis

There's a research synopsis on Blogging and Journalism in German.

Happiness Reflected in Blogs

Happiness Reflected in Blogs, research paper by Rada Mihalcea, from the University of North Texas, and Hugo Liu, from MIT, [PDF] about happiness and the way it's reflected in blogs (via Steve Rubel).

Weblog Webliography

Here's a weblog named Kairosnews for discussing rhetoric, technology and pedagogy with a good weblog webliography.