How-To
A few tips for setting up complex searches
Jun 26th
Most of the queries (or searches) you will be using in alerts or widgets will contain multiple words and search operators. Here is a list of definitions and rules that Cuesense supports.
A query contains several terms and phrases, combined via search operators.
Term A single word, e.g. Madrid Phrase Multiple words that have to appear together in text. Use quotes, e.g. “san francisco”
Combining terms and phrases By default, when you type multiple terms or phrases in a query, they are all required. In other words, the default operator is an ‘AND’. You can also type AND explicitly in the query, More >
How to: start conversations
Jan 5th
So you just saw a movie and have something to say about it. Or you had an idea about a Kindle feature and need to share it with the world. What if someone you know (or, even better, you don’t know) had the same idea? If you follow a lot of tweeps or blogs, it’s often difficult to find the gold nuggets in the stream. We think Cuesense is good at starting conversations, because we crunch a lot of tweets and blogs and can generally figure out who is talking about what and how. And our busy text crunchers in More >
How to: subscribe to Twitter and blog feeds
Dec 14th
Cuesense gets more interesting when you add your Twitter following and favorite blogs to your subscriptions. You can tell Cuesense which services you are already using on the Account>My Services page and we will import your favorite feeds and start crunching them for gold nuggets of knowledge.
You can also add individual feeds on the Account>Subscriptions page. Click on the Add link and enter the service type and publisher (a nickname, a URL or an email, depending on the service).
How to help people find you?
Mar 20th
You just joined a talk-of-the-town web service and invited a few of your friends to join it too. Some of them responded and invited their friends in turn. Soon you are dodging email invitations left and right. Your friendly neighborhood web service just does not realize that sending out mass invitations to friends is passé. So, how do you allow people who you already know to connect with you without all this invite spam? You want to be found by your friends when they join the service, and you want it to be done automatically. The problem is that names are More >
How to: make my cues easier to discover
Feb 3rd
In three words: Tag Your Cues. Oh, and don’t forget to assign your cues to realms and publish them. If you haven’t given your friends permissions to your cues, they won’t be able to see them.