Tool of the week for journalists: Tagboard, for searching social networks (including App.net)
An early version of a tool that allows you to perform a hashtag search for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and App.net
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Tool of the week:
What is it?
A tool for searching social networks, including recently launched App.net
How is it of use to journalists?
Tagboard is still being built but an early version is available. Enter a hashtag and you can search across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and App.net.
You do not have to be members of the networks to search. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46391" height="346" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43919&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Tagboard" width="540"> App.net was launched last month as a Twitter-like social network but one that is ad-free and fully open to developers to create apps. You can see the global feed of all conversations taking place on App.net at this link .
In order to build the network without later selling advertising, App.net charges users $50 per year. It's still in its early stages but developers are busy working on third-party apps (such as Tagboard).
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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