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April 10, 2006

Urlfan and others : blog conversations

Filed under: blogs, rss, conversation

Urlfan allows you to see who is talking about your blog posts in the blogosphere…you get a ranking, and can be notified of when it changes…you also get a feed to follow the talk about your post. Also, each post that talks about you can be seen as a permalink.

Here are some other services:

blogpulse profile
pubsub linkstats
technorati search
feedster link
icerocket link
bloglines citations
talk digger
Urlfan
TTLB

Most bookmark services also cover this ground, but only at the post level…the two below do it at the domain level, so any post from your blog will show up via this one search
Simpy link
Spurl link

NetJaxer : desktop collection

Filed under: tools

NetJaxer is a desktop manager for your favourite or most used websites.
When you download it, it adds an icon to your systems tray…click on this and add your mostly used websites.

When you need to launch one of these websites, just right-click on the netjaxer icon and launch away.

When you add these websites you also have an option to add a shortcut to the desktop, an icon to the launch bar, an icon on the systems tray, or even to launch on start up…this is great…it’s like a Favourites in your systems tray.

Keotag and friends : tagging tools

Filed under: tags, tools

I started a post on Keotag and realised they cover a few features, so I’ve listed some Social bookmark tools that cover the same ground.

Tag Generators & Bookmark Links
Tag Generator & Social Bookmark Link Creator 2.0
keotag
Technorati Personal Bookmarklet
[ADDED 23/04/06: Tagalongmore.]
[ADDED 10/05/06: Social Bookmark List Maker]
[ADDED 10/05/06: Social Bookmark Link Creator]

Multi-submit bookmarklet
OnlyWire
Multi Post bookmarklet
Socializer
(also generates code to add a link to all your blog posts)
keotag
(also generates code to add a link to all your blog posts, but unlike Socializer you have to generate this everytime you post, whereas the Socializer code goes into your post template so it is always appears)

NOTE: Talkdigger provides a similar tool for link searches in blog engines…each of your blog posts can have a link search to multiple blog engines…see a related idea.

Meta-tag search
rel8r
keotagWhat about related tags? What about similar tags?
TagCentral
(this shows related tags)
tagbert…not happening at the moment
Gataga…left the tagosphere
Wink
(mixed results…not sure if this is tag finding or actually searching the term wherever it appears in these services regardless if its tag)
gada.be - social
gutentag
(this cover more than just bookmark services, it covers lots of the tagosphere)
The tagosphere
(mixed results…doesn’t list sources)

As mentioned in an earlier post now we need a meta-engine to not only show bookmarks with a given tag, but to search for a term in these services even if it appears in the title, tag, comments, description, etc…
Then what about if it searches the term in the full-text of the webpage of every URL that is bookmarked in these services…this would be like Google for the human-indexed web.

Meta-latest
popurls
Techzingo
(This service probably belongs in the list above)
DiggLicious
Diggdot.us

Not all the services included in the services above are confined to social bookmarks

[ADDED 11/04/06:
TagSuggest
Tagyu
Autotag]

[ADDED 16/05/06: Add to Any]

[ADDED 16/05/06: tagthe.net]

[ADDED 16/05/06: wanabo]

[ADDED 17/05/06: TagLand]

[ADDED 13/06/06: TagFetch]

[ADDED 05/08/06:
PopMarks
Bookmarkz
Socialize It
Feedpass
Blogger Social Bookmarking Tool]

[ADDED 12/12/06: Tag Bulb, Turbo Tagger]

[ADDED 08/01/07: TagCrowd]

[ADDED 19/01/07: Badged.net]

OPML of links on a given page

Filed under: tools, opml

A while back I posted on generating an OPML of hyperlinks on a webpage via a bookmarklet, well Tony Hirst has fashioned this very thing
…he provides the bookmarklet, and an OPML URL…awesome.

In another post I asked for the possibility of a numbered list of these hyperlinks to automatically sit underneath a print out, and for each hyperlink to have a corresponding number…this was answered by Joe.

Tony also answered a question about multiple hyperlinks under the one word.

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