Web-based Tools
From Online Research Methods comprehensive resource
Web-based research tools and data harvester
VOSON link analysis - Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks
<http://voson.anu.edu.au/>
The VOSON System is web-based software incorporating web mining, data visualisation, and traditional empirical social science methods (e.g. social network analysis, SNA). Web services facilitate access and sharing of distributed resources such as datasets, methods and computational cycles. At present, access to the VOSON System is limited to academic researchers.
http://voson.anu.edu.au/papers.html - Publications
Yahoo! Site Explorer
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
http://www.websitegrader.com/wsgid/286634/default.aspx - Website grader - Example of Beppe Grillo Blog Overall Grade
Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends
Touchgraph - Applicable to Google, Facebook and Amazon
http://www.touchgraph.com/
Technorati Charts
http://technorati.com/chart/linux - Get your own chart with Technorati Chart
From Tobias Escher, OII
http://uggeshall.adastral.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/www-myspace-trial/myspace-trial.pl - MySpace data capturing
http://uggeshall.adastral.ucl.ac.uk/linkoverlap/proofofconcept.cgi - The link overlap analyser - Extremely Interesting Tool
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/web-crawling-crawl-datasets/ - Web Crawling and Datasets
