 Link | App Category | Website | My Rating | Brief comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addictomatic | Social media monitoring | 3.0/5 1 rating | Comprehensive and original/unique social sources in a reader format | |
| Alexa | Trend watchers | alexa.com | 3.0/5 1 rating | Also great for demographics data. Greater freedom to run search queries if you don't log in. |
| Attention Meter | Webpage analysis | attentionmeter.com | no rating | Why not just go straight to the source and use compete? |
| BlogHer | Webpage analysis | blogher.com/... | no rating | Acts like a research agency sharing demographics on the most important online consumer market globally: women |
| BuiltWith.com | Dashboard/BI/widgets | 3.0/5 1 rating | ||
| ComScore | Data research agency | 3.0/5 1 rating | The free data is really great but most you have to pay for | |
| Convoflow | Social media monitoring | 3.0/5 1 rating | Good widget to use in a blog or dashboard | |
| Curate.us | Information mapping | curate.us | 2.0/5 1 rating | Enjoying trialling but opens too many new windows and wont let you take image snapshots |
| Data Visualization Channel | datavisualization.ch/... | 5.0/5 1 rating | ||
| Forrester Research | Data research agency | 2.0/5 1 rating | Dont really share much and the forums are empty. | |
| Geckoboard | Dashboard/BI/widgets | 1.0/5 1 rating | I want to like this a lot but the page is too narrow to play in and it keeps crashing on me. Pricing policy kicks in sooner than zoho's free plan. | |
| Google AdPlanner | Webpage analysis | 3.0/5 1 rating | Great for identifying media sites of interest by demographic audience, or measuring demographic audience of websites | |
| Google Alerts | Social media monitoring | no rating | Not as comprehensive as some of the other services | |
| Google Insights for Search | Trend watchers | google.com/... | no rating | Love the graphs and the embedding but often doesnt have a data pool large enough for my weird little search terms |
| Google Trends | Dashboard/BI/widgets | 1.0/5 1 rating | Never seems to have enough data for my weirdass little search topics | |
| Hitwise | Data research agency | 2.0/5 1 rating | The free data is really great but most you have to pay for | |
| Hootsuite | Social media monitoring | hootsuite.com | no rating | I find the user interface too ugly to bother using. |
| Just Ping | Webpage analysis | just-ping.com/... | no rating | |
| Linked In Groups | 3.0/5 1 rating | Good for getting a conversation going or responding to an idea for a blog post! | ||
| Nielsen | Data research agency | 3.0/5 1 rating | The free data is really great but most you have to pay for | |
| Omgili | Social media monitoring | 4.0/5 1 rating | One of my favorites: love the graph widgets | |
| Popplet | Databases | popplet.com | 5.0/5 1 rating | Fantastic and absorbing, looking forward to more types of files being able to be linked to a map |
| Popuri.us | no rating | |||
| Qrait | Information mapping | qrait.com | no rating | Need to be invited before we can test |
| Quantcast | Webpage analysis | 3.0/5 1 rating | Also great for webpage analysis | |
| Same Point | Social media monitoring | 5.0/5 1 rating | ||
| Site Compete | Webpage analysis | 4.0/5 1 rating | ||
| Sitelogiq.com | Webpage analysis | 5.0/5 1 rating | ||
| SocialCompare | Dashboard/BI/widgets | socialcompare.com | 5.0/5 2 ratings | App to manage product specifications and reviews |
| Social Media Guide | Social media monitoring | 2.0/5 1 rating | Too much information = chaos! | |
| Social Meter | Webpage analysis | no rating | Webpage popularity meter | |
| Social Report | Social media monitoring | socialreport.com | 2.0/5 1 rating | Lots of data and graphs but nothing is connected and what does it all mean? |
| SocialMention | Social media monitoring | 3.0/5 1 rating | Interchangeable with convoflow | |
| SocialOomph | Social media monitoring | 2.0/5 1 rating | Comprehensive but doesnt notice duplicates and retweets, and reporting lacks any visual flair | |
| Spring spotters | Dashboard/BI/widgets | springspotters.com/... | no rating | The springwise email bulletin is worth subscribing. |
| Sprout Social | Social media monitoring | sproutsocial.com | 3.0/5 1 rating | Cant run reports automatically regularly but graphs data by time of day, also twitter, people, biz, facebook, etc are separate searches not amalgamated |
| Storify | Information mapping | storify.com | 2.0/5 1 rating | Has potential, trialing mapping a blog conversation story at the moment so an update next week... |
| Surchur | Social media monitoring | surchur.com | no rating | |
| The Brain | Databases | 1.0/5 1 rating | Mind maps are too full on and this one is so hermeneutic its unwieldy to move around and link things up | |
| Topics To Blog | Demographics sources | topicstoblog.com/... | no rating | Cant wait to try this out: $17/mth for 1 topic & 25 readers feedback |
| Trackur | Social media monitoring | trackur.com | no rating | My least vaorite: doesnt earn a single star. |
| Trend watching | Dashboard/BI/widgets | trendwatching.com | 3.0/5 1 rating | Thought provoking and useful market research summaries |
| TweetDeck | Social media monitoring | twitter.com | 3.0/5 1 rating | |
| ViralHeat | Social media monitoring | 1.0/5 1 rating | How can a web 2.0 with such a funky logo and signup page have such boring data reports? | |
| Website.informer.com | Webpage analysis | 4.0/5 1 rating | ||
| Who Is The Owner | Webpage analysis | no rating | ||
| Woorank | Webpage analysis | woorank.com | 5.0/5 2 ratings | Comprehensive with some unique datasets, especially if looking at competitors sites without access to their analytics codes |
| Yahoo Answers | yahoo.com | no rating | ||
| Yahoo Buzz | yahoo.com | no rating | ||
| You Get The Signal | Webpage analysis | no rating | Reverse IP check | |
| Zoho Reports | Dashboard/BI/widgets | 4.0/5 1 rating | Cant wait to customise this but i'll need a day to set it all up... at least |