Library clips

SurfWax LookAhead–Dynamic Search Navigation for RSS feeds is a search facility which suggests titles (in a alphabetical list) as you type the query…you can link to the native site from the suggestion box.

The other difference is you are only searching in the title element of the RSS feed and not in the body or actual content.

It would be good to separate blog content from traditional news content.

Updates hourly, and keeps the last 7 days worth of posts, and is sorted by date
…it doesn’t mention how many feeds they track.

See here for their marvellous site search service.

Guten Tag is a meta-tag engine for the human indexed web…see my post about defining the tagosphere.

Guten Tag breaks up the tagosphere into 6 tabs:

Posts (aggregated blog posts from the Blogospshere)
Bookmarks (aggregated bookmarks from various social bookmark services)
Photos
Podcasts
Videos
More

From ResearchBuzz:

“It’s nice to see a tag search where so many things are available, but I’d make two big changes. First I’d add more sources. They’re popping up all over the place so that shouldn’t be a big deal. Second I’d try to mix the results somehow — relevance? Date of posting? Random? Right now it’s too easy to look at the results and say, “Oh, it’s just del tags” or Flickr tags or whatever, because you’re not going all the way to the bottom.”

I totally agree, as it is one step forward over some of the other services in that results are all in the main body (not just in separate boxes), but now let’s try mixing the results for relevancy

…then the next step is to be able to full-text search within each of these tabs (the human-indexed web)

You can type in a keyword or choose from the tag cloud…example.

Attensa has released the latest version of their RSS reader, and this time round they have implemented a feature to clip your favourites posts which you can organise by tag.

The kick ass feature is that it syncronizes automatically with your del.icio.us bookmarks…I wonder if you can toggle the del.icio.us synchronization on or off.

So first you have Bloglines, that lets you save items in folders, then you have Newsgator Online that does the same, but these folders are RSS enabled…then you have Rojo that uses tags instead of folders (and you know what this means, all user accounts are merged into a folksonomy)…also see BlogBridge
…many other RSS readers organise clips by tags.
NOTE: Rojo, and BlogBridge also enable tagging of feeds (instead of folders)…so they also have a feed folksonomy…many new RSS readers are starting to organise feeds this way, I think the first was Feedmarker.

Rojo also can clip from within its RSS reader to del.icio.us, as can a Bloglines hack, also see BlogBridge link above…but for this to happen automatically is a great feature from Attensa.

Now the only issue I see with this is the difference between clipping to share, and clipping to save.

If you are clipping an item, to read later on, which then you will delete…then you wouldn’t want this added to your del.icio.us account.

I think there are three save scenarios:

1. Items you want to clip to del.icio.us
2. Items you clip to a folder to read later, but may not want to keep
3. Items you flag to read later (same as No. 2 but with more importance)

[via TechCrunch]

Bank of Ideas is a folksonomy for sharing ideas on suggestions, issues, feedback, etc.. for the Reader2 folksonomy.
A folksonomy usually has a forum as a discussion tool, but why not use a folksonomy to discuss ideas about a folksonomy.

There is also a chat room if you require synchronous communication.

Just had a thought if you could create an OPML out of a del.icio.us tag bundle.

Instead of sending a bunch of URL’s (tags) to someone, you could use an OPML outliner, to send someone a tag outline of a portion of your del.icious account.

Problem with del.icio.us is that the export feature is for the whole account, you can’t export a selection of tags, or export a tag bundle.

What you can do is view a HTML version of your account, or just a tag, or an intersection of tags, but this just shows the last 15 entries, and not an archive.
NOTE: To do this choose export, this defaults to your main account, simply add a tag to the end of the URL.

But even so a HTML version is not as good as the sharing, interchange, and extensible features of an OPML file.

This example below assumes that the tag bundle heading is a tag itself, like in Raw Sugar, where the first level heading contains all the items of the second level headings…see here.

- Blogs
     Weblogs for universities
     Weblogs in the classroom
     k-logs: share knowledge
     Syndicate your blog
     Keep user statistics with Feedburner
     Full-text or summary feeds
     RSS Demographics researched
     Usability of blogs
     Statistics on who reads blogs
     A Conversation on Blog Research
     Search incoming links
     A look at a few blog search engines
     Promote your blog
     RSS vs. email readership
- Blog_edu
     Weblogs for universities
     Weblogs in the classroom
+ Blog_rss
+Blog_km
- Blog_rsch
     RSS Demographics researched
     Usability of blogs
     Statistics on who reads blogs
- Blog_search
     Search incoming links
     A look at a few blog search engines
+ Blog_mkting

Note again that the tag Blogs (at top) has aggregated content from all the other tags, as it is the tag bundle heading.

So this is a portion of a del.icio.us account, under the tag bundle Blogs…this is what it could look like as an OPML outline.

I haven’t used an OPML outliner before, but I assume it would be possible to import the RSS of each del.icio.us tag into an OPML file, and arrange the tags accordingly.

This OPML file would have a URL that you could view at OPML search, or do with it whatever you please…it would be great to be able to create an OPML file within del.icio.us.