Library clips

Tech Talk Blogs has the same idea as FeedButler.

The river of news is via a steady feed set (you can add a blog and the editors will see if it is fit for the portal).

People can give posts a thumbs up or down, basically ratings, like Digg.

View most popular rated posts (thumbs up), or most unpopular posts (thumbs down).

View most recent posts, or least recent posts.

It would be great to see tags/categories transported within the feeds like SuprGlu, and the Corante Web Hub.

Grab the spliced feed river of news, or better still the Reading List (Download Master OPML) if you want to read posts by feed.
NOTE: BlogBridge and FeedBlitz users can subscribe to the OPML URL itself, so any new feeds added/deleted will be reflected…ie. don’t have to reload the static OPML everytime to be sure you have the current version.
If you are not into subscribing, just view it publicly at Optimal…check it out.

[via Alex Barnett]

I think I’ve accidentally coined a new disorder via an old post.

Check it out.

Up until now Simpy only searched your user account, this it does real well.

Now you can search the whole of Simpy.

NOTE: You can’t search the full-text of the whole of Simpy (like Furl), you can only search the full-text of a user account.

Here it is, just use the search box:

firefox
http://www.simpy.com/links/search/firefox?src=ff

The results are default sorted to most recent (called “freshness”)

Try sorting by “popularity”
(ie. results are ordered by how many times each URL has been bookmarked…makes sense to call this popularity)
http://www.simpy.com/links/search/firefox/s=c

That’s not all, you can also sort by “relevance” (kind of like the search matching used in Google)
http://www.simpy.com/links/search/firefox/s=r

…and of course, every search generates an RSS feed.

OK, next…you will notice that the “multi” selection has been used up until now…this means the searches we have just done are searching in multiple fields (basically searching all the metadata or fields, except for full-text).

Tag searching

Try clicking “tag”, and we will see the freshest bookmarks by all users with the tag firefox
http://www.simpy.com/links/tag/firefox

…again these results can also be sorted by popularity, or relevance.

Site bookmarks

At last, you can now grab a feed to see who has bookmarked any of your blog posts, check out all the people in Simpy who have bookmarked my blog
http://www.simpy.com/links/site/libraryclips.blogsome.com?src=f

…again these results can also be sorted by popularity, or relevance.

You can’t do this in del.icio.us, you can only do it for a blog post, if your blog homepage is bookmarked, it just shows you who else has booked the homepage (not every post)
…so I find this a very handy feature.

I guess you could say you can now ego surf at Simpy…see who has bookmarked your blog posts in one easy search. This is great to analyse as you can see which posts are being bookmarked, what tags people use, which are the popular posts, etc…

The only other social bookmark that I know of that does site bookmarks is Spurl
http://spurl.net/discover/domains.php?d=libraryclips.blogsome.com

Now we need a meta-linkback service to see our blog posts bookmarked at all the social bookmark folksonomies…just like Technorati does for all blog services.

In one search I want to find who is bookmarking any posts from my blog in the bookmarkosphere.

Anyway, so this is domain searching or at the sub domain…funnily enough you can’t use this for an individual blog post…see here.
But I know this is bookmarked in Simpy, so if I click in “history” I can see how many times this post has been bookmarked (and I can see by whom, tags used, etc…)…check it out
http://www.simpy.com/link/info/http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/08/26/gmail-rss-reader-hack/

This history page lacks the “common tags” feature in del.icio.us…but it is coming soon.

See here:
http://del.icio.us/url/4f49b9d82f813e5614a682b710ec6323

Common tags is a list of the tags people used when they bookmarked this URL…but this might not be a complete list, if only one person used a certain tag then this might not make it to the list, maybe at least two people have to of used this tag for this URL.

Extension searching

Search file extensions

eg. Funny video clips ext:(mpeg avi mov wmv) tags:funny

eg . recent movies mpeg

Don’t forget about sorting by popularity or relevancy.

One thing

What if I do a search for firefox across all users like above, then sort it by popularity…then refine this to just one user…ie. show me all the bookmarks I have for the tag firefox, sorted by how popular those bookmarks are in the all of Simpy.

The only thing is there isn’t a link to refine to a user, so you can try a search like this:

username:otis tags:firefox

The above will get “all links tagged with tag ‘firefox’ that
the user ‘otis’ has tagged…but it doesn’t work.

So I tried to go to the user account and do this:
tags:firefox
…but now I haven’t got the option to sort by popularity or relevancy.

There you have it Simpy has some search power next to none!

[ADDED 03/02/06: It seems you can do this search
username:otis AND tags:firefox (I forgot to add the AND)
http://www.simpy.com/links/search/username%253Aotis%2520AND%2520tags%253Afirefox?src=f…then just sort the result by popularity or relevancy]

From the developer of FeedMail Now, is a new service called FeedLinx…if you like desktop RSS Readers you can now have them all in synch via FeedLinx. If you have been using your desktop RSS Reader at work and then use your desktop RSS Reader at home it will know which feeds have been read…so this is emulating some of the advantages of a web-based RSS Reader.

I think this is already built into BlogBridge, but for other RSS Readers, this is great news…I wonder if it synchs if you have a different brand reader at work with the one you have at home.

Anyway it’s all here.

When you haven’t got time to read feeds, you can listen to them with RSSDJ.

From the website:

“Take any text based RSS feed (blogs, news feeds, anything), and automatically convert them to spoken word MP3 podcasts!”.

You can also scrape pages that don’t have feeds.

It kind of works like a folksonomy (also includes ratings)…view a feed directory, tag feeds, view users, etc…

Your subscription page contains your mixes, which essentially becomes a podcast…and you subscribe to other people’s mixes.

So a mix could be like a spliced feed from a folder in an RSS reader.

Only thing is that these RSS feeds (podcasts) need to be subscribed to in a podcatcher…so RSS DJ is more of a place to discover, share, manage, and splice text/audio feeds.

Anyway that’s my brief understanding, podcasts are a whole new thing for me…oneday I’ll get an mp3 player and then I’ll be mega interested.

See more.

Check out the fourth paragraph in an earlier post where I mentioned text to audio readers.

Also see Talkr, and Speakwire…might as well check out Odeo while you are there.