WWD Coffee Break: Future Search, RSS Slides & Twitter Links

ScreenshotOut-Googling GoogleManagedQ isn’t really a new search engine, since it uses Google’s results. But what it does with those results is pretty stunning. Put in a search term, and you get back a page of site thumbnails (large enough to be generally readable), and a batch of common extracted terms (people, places, and things) down the left hand side. Click a term to add that to the filter; click the Next and Previous panels to flip through results. Just start typing to do an instant search (using regular expressions if you want) across the text of all displayed pages.

The result is a sort of visual search experience that is very flexible and great for quickly focusing in on the best results from a Google sea. And amazingly enough, it’s actually fast, despite all the behind-the-scenes rendering and ajax trickery that must be going on.

RSS Made Easy – Yeah, there are a boat load of RSS readers around and various schemes to make RSS more accessible to the common man. Here’s another. WebSlides takes any RSS feed or list of bookmarks and turns it into a slideshow. You can tweak the view, add an audio track, and share the result as a URL or turn it into a widget for your own blog.

Low-fat Twitter – Even if you don’t have the time for endless chatting on Twitter, it can be a good source of interesting links to follow; the spammers mostly haven’t discovered it yet. You can get the links and nothing but the links by visiting TwitterLinkr, which will show you all links or a tag cloud view of popular links. It’s got its own RSS feed, too.

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