James Gubbins (http://twitter.com/JMGubbins) is an “education geek” with a passion for technology and education. He has been on the forefront of implementing technology in the classroom for more than ten years. Recently, he started a weekly ed-tech broadcast called Webtopia which is aired every Sunday on Ustream. Webtopia is aimed to investigate and demonstrate live new and exciting Web 2.0 applications.

James took a look at search engines beyond Google at Webtopia Episode 2 session on July 6, 2009. He introduced Ambiently.com, itpints.com, fur.ly and rowdii.com. You can watch the embed episode below.

Many people in education love Ambiently. On April 10, 2009, Mr. Byrne at FreeTech4Teachers.com wrote, “Ambiently could be a very useful web research tool. Instead of jumping back and forth from a search results page, students can just click the Ambient button and have related content right in front of them.”

Thanks James, Byrne, and other active Ambiently users for your interest! We will continue to improve Ambiently to provide better experience for online information finding.