New competitive intelligence tool to research company org charts: www.theofficialboard.com
NationMaster.com – good statistics on countries, people, etc. – http://bit.ly/iydy
NNDB Mapper – Visually connect the relationships between individuals – http://bit.ly/bKnD9
Journalist’s List of Databases – http://bit.ly/dmIaGs
Happn.in – http://bit.ly/12SUDL – a way to find local tweets for your city
Use LinkedIn’s new “Follow Company” feature to get notified when emp leave, company profiles get updated, etc
Yahoo Firehose – http://ow.ly/1xz5r – interesting data you can query – let’s me pull out my old school DB Skills
Example Yahoo Firehose Query – “select title,abstract from search.news where query=”ipad”
LinkedIn’s advanced search operators – http://bit.ly/HPhYd – “ptitle:” “company”” “interest” and others
Track your competitor’s links that go through Twitter with Twitt(url)y – http://bit.ly/bc8Xyk
TechAgreements.com – http://www.techagreements.com/default.aspx
By Sean Campbell
By Scott Swigart