We recently heard a story about Twitter : it has beeen hacked.
We want to know more about it. Naturally, we go to Google and search for “twitter hack”.
As usual, we read the first page. We find some good information explaining what happened.
We open :
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/twitter-gets-hacked-badly/
- http://lalawag.com/timeline-le-twitter-hack/
- http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164182/hacker_i_broke_into_twitter.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/technology/internet/16twitter.html
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/in-our-inbox-hundreds-of-confidential-twitter-documents/
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/twitters-ev-confirms-hacker-targeted-personal-accounts-attack-was-highly-distressing/
- http://www.korben.info/hack-de-twitter-la-suite.html
- http://www.korben.info/twitter-vu-de-linterieur-interface-admin-piratee.html
At this point, we would like to explore and get more knowledge . Today, we go back to Google and search for many keywords combinaisons. We read the pages. From pages to pages, we select more and more keywords (more or less relevant). After some time, we stop our search thinking we reached the best results.
But…
What if Googling could be better ? What if a system could process many keywords combinaisons and analyse the best results for us ?
What if we could benefit from the work of people saving and qualifying their best results in a social knowledge network ? What if these knowledge results could be sorted and ranked using the knowledge network effect ?
This is the Webzzle value proposition : In one click from a Web page, you can get more relevant information from other users and get enhanced results from Google too. Webzzle automates the search queries generations to dramatically improve the search results quality.
The purpose of the explore feature is to save time for the user in the search results analysis process and get higher quality results : go straight to better results. We do not use Google like you do (passing some keywords), we process several queries, sort out the best results and rank the top ones on one page.
As the community grows, the Webzzle results improve. It’s the social knowledge network effect.
We install the “Webzzle Explore” Firefox add-on. Now, we can explore by clicking the button from a Web page.
Let’s go to : http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/twitters-ev-confirms-hacker-targeted-personal-accounts-attack-was-highly-distressing/
By clicking “Webzzle Explore” on this page, you get : http://www.webzzle.com/explorer/webResource.kol?action=20020&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techcrunch.com%2F2009%2F07%2F14%2Ftwitters-ev-confirms-hacker-targeted-personal-accounts-attack-was-highly-distressing%2F&title=Twitter%E2%80%99s%20%40Ev%20Confirms%20Hacker%20Targeted%20Personal%20Accounts%3B%20Attack%20Was%20%E2%80%9CHighly%20Distressing.%E2%80%9D%20-%20Mozilla%20Firefox
From the explorer result page, we start discovering the Webzzle results (if there are some) and the enhanced Google results. Just exploring with Webzzle, we find more information on the financial projections on Techcrunch : http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/twitters-financial-forecast-shows-first-revenue-in-q3-1-billion-users-in-2013/
We keep on exploring…the second enganced Google result for example presents some good information with discussion board : http://www.techmeme.com/090715/p75
We open for example Twitter’s Financial Forecast Shows First Revenue In Q3, 1 billion users in 2013 and the first discussion board : ventureBeat : http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/07/15/will-twitter-really-make-154-billion-in-2013/
Then we start reading higher value information and get more knowledge. At a certain point, we can save some knowledge in our Webzzle personal knowledge organizer. It will help us and the members of the knowledge network to retrieve the best results quickly and, above all, explore from them. I personally saved http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/twitters-ev-confirms-hacker-targeted-personal-accounts-attack-was-highly-distressing/
with 2 concepts : Twitter & Hack
Then I explored from this. The result page showed some results stored by other members who saved and qualified good knowledge.
Enjoy exploring the knowledge web 
