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Geek to Live: Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes

Geek to Live: Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes

RSS Feeds Directory for Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and More You can use this feeds directory to determine the RSS feeds of any of your favorite online service be it Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or something else. If you are old school like me and still prefer consuming online content through RSS feeds, this directory is for you. Most of the popular online apps and services – including the likes of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, offer RSS feeds but the problem is that you have to be a near geek in order to discover any of these feeds. Hence, I compiled this directory that will probably help you find XML feeds for your favorite online services without digging into the complex APIs. 1. Get the most recently uploaded videos of any YouTube user [example] 2. Replace “relevance” by either “published” or “viewCount” to order search results by the upload date or view count of videos respectively. 1. Update: Twitter no longer supports RSS Feeds but you can still generate your own using this workaround.

First step in creating a radar is a process of discovery Submitted by Howard Rheingold on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 02:56. Consider a topic in which you have a continuing, long-term interest. For me, that might be the use of social media in learning. I've created a number of radars about that topic and attend to them regularly over periods of months and years. You can start from any of the points I recommend -- search, blogs, Twitter, social bookmarking, etc. - but sometimes you can go directly to the stream you want. 1. 2.

Netvibes Tutorial - masey 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. If you find this tutorial helpful, please share it with others via Facebook or Twitter using the buttons provided above. Where to Begin: 1. A. B. <img src=" alt="Sign In" width="183" height="49" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;" />Click on the”Sign In” link at the top right of the screenUnder the "New User" heading click the “Sign Up Now!” C. Save this email in a folder where you will find it again in case you forget your login details 2. A. B.

Search operators - Web Search Help You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise. Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn’t part of a search operator. Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won’t. Refine image searches Overall Advanced Search Go to Advanced Image Search. Search for an exact image size Right after the word you're looking for, add the text imagesize:widthxheight. Example: imagesize:500x400 Common search techniques Search social media Put @ in front of a word to search social media. Search for a price Put $ in front of a number. Search hashtags Put # in front of a word. Exclude words from your search Put - in front of a word you want to leave out. Search for an exact match Put a word or phrase inside quotes. Search within a range of numbers Put .. between two numbers. Combine searches Put "OR" between each search query. Search for a specific site Search for related sites

Google Search Operators The following table lists the search operators that work with each Google search service. Click on an operator to jump to its description — or, to read about all of the operators, simply scroll down and read all of this page. The following is an alphabetical list of the search operators. This list includes operators that are not officially supported by Google and not listed in Google’s online help. Each entry typically includes the syntax, the capabilities, and an example. Some of the search operators won’t work as intended if you put a space between the colon (:) and the subsequent query word. allinanchor: If you start your query with allinanchor:, Google restricts results to pages containing all query terms you specify in the anchor text on links to the page. Anchor text is the text on a page that is linked to another web page or a different place on the current page. allintext: allintitle: allinurl: In URLs, words are often run together. author: cache: define: ext: filetype: group: id: inanchor:

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