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Whostalkin Social Media Search Comes Out of Beta Testing

January 6th, 2009 (4:00pm) Samuel Dean 5 Comments

If you do any blogging, reporting or electronic publishing focused on timely topics, take a look at Whostalkin, a social media and metasearch engine for blogs that has just come out of private beta testing.  I’ve been experimenting with it today, and, for the most part, it does a good job of ferreting out conversational and anecdotal information on newsworthy topics for which there may not be lots of coverage immediately available.

Here are the kinds of tasks I tried with it, and what I found.

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