WikiWorldBook is a worldwide adress book, that aggregates results from most popular social web services, such as digg, facebook or twitter. Idea of WWB is based on self+organisation of users in order to improve possibilities of managing our own online reputation. We can not only search for people by giving their names and narrowing such a search by adding more precise details. It is also possible to browse adress book by alphabet letters like in traditional -  paper yellow pages. Results are acquired not only from social web services but they come also form general search engines (these are displayed in separate section, below social web results).

There are two main goals that creators of WWB want to achcieve - enable users to find or refresh contacts. Secondly - to manage our online reputation by giving us context that our name appears in relation to. It is also possible to get an alert with information when our name is being Googled (only for registered users). Users can also inform their friends about services they have accounts in and distinguish their accounts as private or business ones.

WikiWorldBook except for enabling to search for personal data is a Web 2.0 service, that contains structures as blogs, massage boards and everything we knew from other social web services, including profile pages, where we can aggregate all our personal data.

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Artiklz is a search engines that scans social web to find results from blogs, microblogging and social web discussions that contain particular terms. In advanced options we can choose specific time span we are interested in, narrow down possibilities of interpretation of our query and the type of text we want - articles or comments.

Artiklz is a initiative similar to Talk Digger, that enables also to search through comments and social web, but there’s not so many options of narrowing the query down. This tool can turn out useful in opinion search efforts I wrote about yesterday. It can be also a graeat help in finding anchor point for content from different social services, which taken as whole definetely are not cohesive.

-mw