Agenda for Advanced Internet Research course for the NUJ on June 23rd.

Headsup on a range of tools that lets you monitor Twitter posts in real-time.

SingleFunction is a showcase of single function website using crystal clear presentation, short but helpful summaries and user ratings.

Omgili – when you want to find out what people are saying.

Following up on my post on tools for looking at people behind sites here’s another excellent tool for pushing things forward. WhoIsHostingThis? can give you that last piece of the jigsaw that is missing from standard ‘whois’ lookups – the name of the hosting provider.
Standard ‘whois’ lookup tools give you the name of the ‘datacenter’ [...]

Looking for strategies to find out about people behind sites? While there are dozens of sites that perform Whois lookups and site analyses, there still seems to be confusion about the various tools that exist.

One of the best people search engines adds a series of reverse lookup features including e-mail addresses and usernames.
Icerocket launches some incredibly useful features for tracking rapidly changing web content.

The people search tool ‘pipl.com’ has had a lot of coverage and praise over the past year. Another tool that pulls information about people from a range of social networking sources and databases is Yasni. Thanks to Phil Bradley for his useful review. More on Yasni to follow.