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An amazingly powerful new twitter search tool called postpo.st launches

This great new twitter search tools allows you to find all the best links, photos and information without all the noise of twitter conversations...
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How Twitter Works as a Q&A App [INFOGRAPHIC]

How Twitter Works as a Q&A App [INFOGRAPHIC] | Infotention | Scoop.it
Around 3 million questions are asked on Twitter each month. Do you ever ask or answer questions on Twitter?
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How to Hack RSS to Reduce Information Overload

How to Hack RSS to Reduce Information Overload | Infotention | Scoop.it
The key to cutting information overload is to more efficiently find the data that you want among the data that you don't care about.
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Can Delicious Solve Our Information Discovery Problem?

hose millions of shared bookmarks are a kind of social graph of content in a way: they are implicit signals from all the people who shared those links, or stored them for later, that there is valuable content there. Some of those links may be dead or changed, but it’s still a fairly substantial foundation for an information-discovery service to build on.
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» How to: Build a social media dashboard » Lifehacks

» How to: Build a social media dashboard » Lifehacks | Infotention | Scoop.it
I’m going to show you four different ways to make a dashboard for yourself (and all are free), but before I do, let me give you the real secret to how all these tools work: Segment your information

That’s what all these tools do, they let you put information into easily skimmable groups so you can glance and see if anything is new. Let’s start with Twitter.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick, Technology Journalist » How to Use Twitter Plus Needlebase to Discover Fabulous Things

Marshall Kirkpatrick, Technology Journalist » How to Use Twitter Plus Needlebase to Discover Fabulous Things | Infotention | Scoop.it
What I did was use Tlists to find 3 Twitter lists of 500 journalists ( this one, this one and this one), curated by people I was familiar with. Then I used Needlebase to scrape the usernames, locations, number of followers and number of tweets (just for fun) of all the people on those three lists.
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FeedsAPI full text rss feeds information extraction - content retrieval | Create RSS Feed

FeedsAPI full text rss feeds information extraction - content retrieval | Create RSS Feed | Infotention | Scoop.it
FeedsAPI converts abbreviated RSS feeds to the full text version for free, it helps people extract content and information from web pages, can be used for content and information retrieval from a standard HTML page and return a 1 feed item and transform...
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Netvibes Tutorial

Netvibes Tutorial | Infotention | Scoop.it
Netvibes.com is a custom made home page solution that allows you to create a personalised page filled with content that you find useful… that is relevant to YOU! It’s ideal for your browser homepage and can be accessed from any web enabled computer anywhere!
I LOVE this service so much! I love it to the point that I have put in a few long hours compiling a dead simple tutorial covering the basic steps you need to take to ensure a rich “Netvibes” experience for yourself.
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The Technium: Multiplexing vs Multitasking

Starner replied that he multiplexes rather than multitasks. Multiplexing means doing tasks that reinforce each other. For him, taking notes and having conversations are tasks that parallel and enrich each other. They are multiplexed.
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5 Reasons Why Activity Streams Will Save You From Information Overload

As a starting point, I have blogged a little while ago how Activity Streams can help you reduce your Inbox clutter, as well as look for better venues to host conversations that before were trapped inside your Inbox, but I thought I would go ahead and spend some time today sharing another 5 reasons as to why I believe Activity Streams won’t embrace Information Overload any time soon, if they continue to evolve, that is
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How To Translate RSS Feeds Automatically With Yahoo Pipes

How To Translate RSS Feeds Automatically With Yahoo Pipes | Infotention | Scoop.it
I have shown you how to Combine Multiple RSS Feeds With Yahoo Pipes. Today I’m going to show you another very handy, and easy to configure, Yahoo Pipes construct: Feed translations.
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Five Forms of Filtering « Innovation Leadership Network

Five Forms of Filtering « Innovation Leadership Network | Infotention | Scoop.it
We create economic value out of information when we figure out an effective strategy that includes aggregating, filtering and connecting.
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