Keep up with your news! Resultly is a tool that can best be described as a current awareness resource. Simply let it know what you're interested in (this could be a word, phrase, person, event, etc) and provide it with some parameters. These could be anything from the social network that you're interested in, to the length of time a video should be and so on. You can also input your location to get local data (though I'm not entirely sure if this will work outside the US).
The idea is that Resultly will then start checking content for you, and will display it on the screen when it finds anything new. It looks a little like this:
Quite how valuable it will be I'm none too sure. I'm certainly seeing more on Twitter than this tool is returning to me. I can also get Google to run email news alerts as they happen, so I'm not sure it's offering anything new for me in that respect. The value would be in the extent that I can focus searches, and use it to automate the searching of resources that are not made easy, such as Facebook, but I remain to be convinced really.
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