June 7, 2012

SEE what I SAW! About SeeSaw.

What the heck is SeeSaw? It’s hashtag-heaven for Tweeps! Go to Sees.aw, log in with your Twitter account and you’ll see the latest trending hashtags populating your screen in real time.

WARNING: You should not stare at this too long cuz it’ll hypnotize you. I'm not even joking.

Here's the cool part. Wanna follow a specific hashtag or topic? Let’s say you like a little #WineParty on Friday nights, heheh...hit the SeeSaw magnifying glass and type it in the box.



Presto! All the tweets with #WineParty will appear in a mesmerizing patchwork quilt on your screen. Of course there will be a few nuggets of incredible wisdom that you’d like to save forever, right? On Twitter it’s a real pain to scroll through tweets trying to find something you liked in a tweetchat, and there's no organized way to save it. But on SeeSaw, all you have to do is hover on the tweets you like and click on the word "Saw".



This saves that particular tweet to your own personal “Saw” board, which you'll find by clicking on the word "SAW" at the top right. So if you’re following hashtags for Twitter parties, chats, or certain topics, you can collect and curate tweets to your own custom boards. Like Pinterest, but for Twitter. Your favorite images, links, information, whatever is important to you, even an entire # stream can be saved to peruse at a later time.

SeeSaw is extremely useful for image lovers (like moi) because it’s so visual. I can save all my best #PickleWeasel tweets to a board – and if anyone asks what a Pickle Weasel is, I simply show them this:



If they see something they like, they can follow the link back to my blog. Someone says something nice about PickleWeasel – I save it for when I need cheering up.

SeeSaw is new and I’ve just started playing with it. You can tweet/reply directly into it, you can highlight keywords within a hashtag crop to harvest your content, and there’s share buttons too. There’s still a few bugs here and there - certain images won't show, for example - and it would be cool to have the option to make a board public or private (seriously I don't want you guys finding out which of the rude #DrawSomething's I'll be saving haw haw). But the peeps behind it (Internet Media Labs @SeeSawMe) are listening and refining, which is awesome.

Lemmeno if you find some other cool ways to use it.

#WineParty was created by @blogdangerously.


17 comments:

  1. That is awesome! Must check that out. :)

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  2. Any topic imaginable can be collected in SeeSaw. Seriously, I might pay actual money to see some of the future boards that I don't dare to create myself. LMAO!

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  3. Now that I've cured my Tumblr addiction, I now have a hole to fill...I'll have to give it a look-see. *grin*

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  4. All artists here can promote their work there: http://yeeti.com :-) it'a a great place to promote and share your talent with others!

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  5. JC a big thank you from all of us here at Internet Media Labs for being such a great SeeSaw peep! SOooooooo much more to come. We have not even scratched the surface. You will find new things added on a daily basis..

    BTW you can now hit the Saw/Comment button. Leave a comment and send a Tweet out at the same time. This now creates and embed page on your Saw page that your tweet send people into.We will be wrapping that page content with tons of tools and recommendations.

    When you are on your SAW Board you will notice a new "eye" icon in the floating tool bar. Click and you can go into the web page.

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  6. one more additional tip:)

    You can do mashup searches such as a topic w/ a url. if you do " Tennis youtube.com " (dont add " marks in the search) or " cats instagr.am " you can pull topics out of specific urls

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  7. This looks awesome. And it's Friday so I'll be trying it out tonight!!

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  8. JC, I think I need you to illustrate our user manual...this was amazing! If any one needs help or has a question about SeeSaw, please hit me up on Twitter @MediaLabRat. I would be happy to take you on a guided tour!

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  9. This is awesome JC! You're so #SawSee ;-p

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    1. Ahaha, want to be part of #teamSAWSEE - what d'ya say?

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    2. You lead, I will follow. #teamSAWSEE

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    3. #teamSawSee...#LIKE! do we need uniforms?

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  11. Whoa. This is AMAZING. I can't wait to try it.

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