Digital Inspiration Technology Blog: Know When Your Friends or Family Members are in News

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Know When Your Friends or Family Members are in News Jun 8th 2012, 18:30 Want to know when any of your 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 your friend. You just have to create an "as-it-happens" email alert with your friend's name and Google will help you keep a tab on him or her. That's one of the ways but wouldn't it be nice if you could setup this kind of news monitoring for a bigger group of people – like your entire friends list? When your Friends Make News Meet newsly, an online tool that will automatically discover news articles and blogs that mention any of your friends. It gets you friends list from Facebook and LinkedIn and lets you know when they’re mentioned in news article or blog posts. Newsly create a Pinterest style grid with all the mentions but you can also choose to receive alerts by email similar to Google Alerts. Other than friends and professional contacts, you may also use the tool to follow news articles mentioning politicians, celebrities or your favorite people from the technology world. That said, if you friend shares a popular name, be prepared to see tons of useless news articles in your 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 you find news articles that are written by a particular person. This is a good tool for tracking stories written by your favorite journalists and bloggers. Thank you Marshall Kirkpatrick for the tip. This story, Know When Your Friends or Family Members are in News, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 08/06/2012 under Websites, Internet. Related posts: Find People Who Are Yet To Accept Your Request to Become Facebook Friends Know When Facebook Friends Delete You As a Contact Create Separate Profiles in Google Chrome for Family Members Stay in Touch with Friends & Family with Microsoft Vine Make a Family Tree with help from Relatives & Family Members Media files: friends_in_news-50x50.jpg (image/png)

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