Socialseek has released a desktop application that lets you search for a topic, item, brand or company across news sites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and events. You can also track mentions of a particular search query by city and receive charts that show trends on popularity of a topic across websites, or Twitter.
The ability to crawl social media sites and websites for a brand can be valuable, but what I find useful about Socialseek is the ability to track an item over image sites like Flickr and even event sites. And it’s also interesting to be able to limit chatter over the web about a particular topic to a geographical region or city.
Socialseek could be popular in the enterprise space, especially as Twitter has become an essential marketing tool for brands and companies. The app runs on Adobe Air, which I find to have some strange UI quirks and bugs and ends up using good amount of resources on computers. Competitors to Socialseek include Viralheat and Peoplebrowsr, which both help marketers track the buzz around a certain individual or brand on social media sites and web sites.
Is it just me or is the SocialSeek link pointing to PeopleBrowsr?
It’s going to the right place.
http://www.sens...com/socialseek/
It does now, because I fixed it. Sorry for that, Justin.
One other cool thing…SocialSeek is free, go get it!
This is the innovation social marketing gurus have been waiting for, I must admit that the tracking of an image over the blogosphere and social networks is a great piece of work that we advocate for at:
http://www.youtechno.info
Seems like a well-done aggregation tool. Is it relying on tags or filenames to associate photos for example with a brand?
Definitely a very brilliant piece of work done… Just added it here too :
http://www.buil...ww.sensidea.com
Seems like a good tool with some useful features others don’t have yet. If you’re looking for other good free social media monitoring tools, I’ve compiled a list on my blog:
http://www.vige...th-checking-out
Just downloaded it and I must say it sucks .. looks like a college project I did a few year back…lol,, not professional at all.
Really helpful I added it at
http://www.frea...a.com/web-links
This is great and even better, FREE! Can’t wait to start playing!
Thanks TC for thenice write-up, and thanks everyone for your support and glad you’re enjoying SocialSeek. More coming soon!
Jaafer
This thing sucks, it just pulls down stuff from places via API which is limited does not tell me anything
UGH. I just found out it pulls down stuff using my computer…its an app.
Not sure what you mean “it pulls down stuff using your computer” ….its an app that connects to a bunch of hot social media services and brings back what people are talking about or posting, and you can export results and see trend charts. It gives the core of what monitoring services charge $500+/month for but its free!
Never heard of that before
now this is what i was expecting.
Why are the publishing it as an installable air app?! it would make more sense as web app and besides that its pretty bugged (ie. cant change keywords).
prob easier to track how many downloads, etc rather than just release it to the www
Awesome application. I just replaced it with the other tool I’ve been using since this seems to be a better interface and more powerful. Thanks!