Swicki
Encyclopedia
Swicki is a collaborative social search engine
produced by the company Eurekster
. Swicki is based on social networking and relies on 'interest groups', i.e. for each topic it has a number of user-selected sites. You can join a community that matches your interest or rate a particular resource listed. Swicki is advertised as a social browser.
It is not the same thing as a swiki
(which is a wiki
written in the programming language Squeak
).
Social search
Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...
produced by the company Eurekster
Eurekster
Eurekster is a company founded in Christchurch, New Zealand, with an office located in San Francisco, California, that builds social search engines for use on websites, the search engines are called swickis ....
. Swicki is based on social networking and relies on 'interest groups', i.e. for each topic it has a number of user-selected sites. You can join a community that matches your interest or rate a particular resource listed. Swicki is advertised as a social browser.
It is not the same thing as a swiki
Swiki
Swiki is wiki software written in Squeak. It is used heavily by the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. It is also used in K-12 education and has been used successfully with 4th graders and higher...
(which is a wiki
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
written in the programming language Squeak
Squeak
The Squeak programming language is a Smalltalk implementation. It is object-oriented, class-based and reflective.It was derived directly from Smalltalk-80 by a group at Apple Computer that included some of the original Smalltalk-80 developers...
).