If you want to stay up-to-date with the Web searches of your friends or group at andUNITE and you don’t always want to go to andUNITE.com why not export the feed e.g. to your iGoogle page? Nothing easier than that!

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First click on “Subscribe to News as RSS Feed” on the top right hand corner of your news page at andUNITE.com:.

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Then pick “Google” at the following page:.

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After clicking on “Subscibe now” you’ll have the choice between adding the andUNITE searches of your freinds either to your Google homepage (left) (=iGoogle) or to your Google reader. Make your choice:.

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And voilà - from now on you’ll be able to see your friends’ Web searches on you personal iGoogle page:.

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That’s it! If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask us.

It can happen to everyone, it probably already happened to most people who surf the Web: They “wilfed“. To “wilf” stands for “what was I looking for” and it usually starts with an interesting Website and the you are carried away by a link, another link and again a link. And after a few minutes you “wake up” and think: Ahmmm, where was I? What did I want to do? Well, I found some interesting stuff while I was wilfing, but now let’s get back to business…

andUNITE provides a perfect entry for “wilfing”. This is how it usually happens:

- You connect with your friends through andUNITE and follow their Web searches.
- You find a search term at Lisa’s searches which you never heard of
- You click on the magnifying glass next to the search term and search for the term by yourself and:
- Wow: you discover a really interesting new artist!
- Let’s get back to Lisa’s searches: Here, another search term which sounds kind of cool
- Again: You search for it yourself and discover more and more interesting sites - since Lisa is really cool!
- Ahmmm: Where were you?

Congratulations: You just wilfed (again)! Enjoy wilfing with andUNITE!

“Stop web links! Start talking!” enabled by andUNITE.com

Web links are nice and, well, we “love” them. But still, it’s terrible to click through all the links “presented” in a “nice” list (or is it a “format”?) by a smart search engine such as Google, Yahoo! or Live when you are in the urgent need of some information. Wouldn’t it be much nicer to be able to just talk to someone who knows the solution?

This is why you should use andUNITE.com. And why not start using it in your own project group so that your colleagues / friends / co-students can see what you are currently working on and searching for so that they might be able to quickly help you when search engines let you down (and vice versa of course)?

andUNITE.com is free and easy to use for work groups. Just follow some easy steps which are presented in the presentation below:

(Basically: Just replace the word “friends” at andUNITE.com with “colleague” or “co-worker”).

Try it, give it some time and don’t forget to send us feedback on your experience with andUNITE.com and what you would like andUNITE.com to be able to do for you.

Yesterday Christian presented andUNITE at the Innovation Lab of the UnternehmerTUM in Munich. Manage&More brings business and studies together and organized a founders day and a lot of students from the Technical University attended the event. It is always quite impressive to speak or just “be” at the TU Munich: It looks like a great university for students, a university which offers a lot of opportunities, modern spaces, interesting events, … Sometimes we wish we ourselves had studied there.

Anyways: andUNITE offers a great use case for students who work in groups. Just sign up, connect with your group members, set your privacy settings into “friendship mode” and start using andUNITE as a collaborative search tool. From now on you are able to exchange your internet searches with the other group members so that everyone can see what he/she is currently working on.

A major request by many users is finally fulfilled: andUNITE now also offers an application for facebook. With the “Share your searches” application you can always let your facebook friends know what you are currently searching for on the Web. After you added the facebook application the latest of your public search terms will be also published on your facebook profile page. Furthermore: You are also able to see what your facebook friends are currently searching for on the Web. Of course you always have full control of the privacy settings of each and every search term.
Add the andUNITE “Share your searches” application to your facebook profile here. Feedback is always welcome!

Here are some screenshots:

My searches on my facebook profile

What are my facebook friends’ latest searches?

The settings page gives you full control about the privacy settings of each of your search terms

After the article about andUNITE the German blog IT Frontal published an interview with Bernd and Christian, two of the founders of andUNITE. The interview ist not only about what andUNITE is all about but also about how everything started and what some of the future ideas are like. You will also find a few notes about the philosophy, the idea and the use of andUNITE.
Thank you, Thomas Sprenger, also for the inspiring talk about “swarm intelligence” and related topics.

andUNITE is a launch partner of the German friendfeed competitor freundenews.de which was launched today. With the integration of andUNITE into freundenews users of freundenews are able to share their Internet searches with their friends not only on andUNITE but also on freundenews.
The integration of andUNITE into freundenews is a perfect example of how to use andUNITE as the basis for an innovative kind of collaborative search. From now on the freundenews community can help someone with his problem if he searches for something on the Internet and makes his search public through andUNITE. By doing so andUNITE also enables adding a unique information about the user to his profile on freundenews.

More about andUNITE.com and freundenews.de.

At the German Weblog “IT Frontal” Thomas Sprenger from Pironet published an article about andUNITE. He puts andUNITE in an overall open search context and sees tools like andUNITE as a threat even for Google (wow, really??). In fact: We believe that we actually enriche Google and other search engines with a service they themselves don’t want to provide. The future lies in both: bot based search à la Google, Yahoo! & Co and whatever kind of “social” search à la Wikia Search or andUNITE. What we especially care about is the knowledge which sits deep inside the people’s brains and which can not be found on the Web. Here it makes sense to bring people back into search and let them talk to each others about their questions, problems or common interests. THAT’s what andUNITE is all about. We don’t realy care about bots…