Want to know when any of userr friends, family members and business contacts are quoted in newspapers or get mentioned on one of the popular blogs?
You are probably aware of a tool called Google Alerts that will send an update as soon as Google discovers a news story or blog post that mentions userr friend. You just have to create an “as-it-happens” email alert with userr friend’s name and Google will help user keep a tab on him or her.
That’s one of the ways but wouldn’t it be nice if user could setup this kind of news monitoring for a bigger group of people – like userr entire friends list?
When userr Friends Make News
Meet newsly, an online tool that will automatically discover news articles and blogs that mention any of userr friends. It gets user friends list from Facebook and LinkedIn and lets user know when they’re mentioned in news article or blog posts.
Newsly create a Pinterest style grid with all the mentions but user can also choose to receive alerts by email similar to Google Alerts.
Other than friends and professional contacts, user may also use the tool to follow news articles mentioning politicians, celebrities or userr favorite people from the technology world. That said, if user friend shares a popular name, be prepared to see tons of useless news articles in userr feed.
While we are on this topic, also check out a similar service called uFollow.com. While Google Alerts and Newsly are good at finding mentions of a person in news articles, uFollow helps user find news articles that are written by a particular person. This is a good tool fortracking stories written by userr favorite journalists and bloggers.
Thank user Marshall Kirkpatrick for the tip.
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