Library clips

Enterprise bookmarking is getting some lift off of late, I wrote about it a while back.

Here are some recent findings:

More Tagging Articles
Even More Tagging Articles
More Tagging Articles - Enterprise Tagging

My collection is here:
Tags_km
Tags
Tag_apps
LIS_tags

I need to use some more user-friendly tags eg. km+tags, actually when I first started tagging I used them as categories and haven’t had time to be make them more specific, although I like that I can point to one URL containing a bucket of links…that’s why I like social bookmarking with both folders and tags.

The other problem is that I could also be more specific and use the term bookmarks, or social bookmarks or folksonomy, tagging when appropriate…also now that my tag bookmarks are growing these could even be more specific like pros, cons, etc…

[ADDED 07/05/06: It’s a tag, tag, tag, World! Next up the enterprise!]

Search Engine Watch post about the launch of the new awaiting blog search engine, Sphere…still is in closed beta (I checked in my backlog of unread emails and found I had a password so I checked it out).

From the article:
“Sphere takes a new approach to blog search, looking at three critical variables to understand both individual blog posts and the nature of the blog they appear on. As with web search, Sphere attempts to understand link structures—who’s linking to whom, and what are the quality of the links. Crucial to this analysis is an attempt to understand who’s starting or leading discussions in contrast to those bloggers who are simply commenting on existing conversations.

And finally, Sphere’s algorithm content does some heavy lifting with semantic analysis of blog postings. “It’s the hard part, and most important piece of the secret sauce,” said Sphere co-founder Steve Nieker. Sphere doesn’t use tags in its ranking of blog posts, even if they exist.”

Very clean interface and lots of targeted searching:
- boolean
- brackets
- phrase
- date
- blog site search
- search in blog post titles

Example…blog:”library clips” title:ziki
Or I could of used…site:libraryclips.blogsome.com title:ziki

Choose between relevance or time for results

On the results sidebar is a list of recommended blogs

Each result has a search feed

Each hit in the results has a brief profile of the blog and a link to the larger profile page
- avg. posts/week
- avg. words/post
- avg. links/post
- last Three links In
- last Three links Out

Bookmarklet to see related posts for the page you are on

Submit a blog

Coming soon
- related posts for each search result

I just noticed Rojo has a search box:

- find & add feeds
- search for stories

We know Rojo has a feed folksonomy and bookmark folksonomy (as well as voting), but now it has included search into the mix.

You can search for feeds and preview them (as usual), now you can also search for stories…so it’s becoming quite the search engine, and what a clean engine as the content is just from Rojo subscriptions.

Still seems in its early stages, they haven’t blogged about it as of yet, but I’d like to limit these 2 searches to my own account, and also within a tag of feeds, or tag of stories:
- search for a feed
- search for a story

Advanced Search Requests
- Stories I’ve Read
- Unread stories
- Unread and Read stories
- Tagged or Saved stories
- Flagged Stories
- Mojo’d stories
- Shared Stories
- Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)
- Phrase searching
- Date ranges
- Search your Contacts stories
- Search your Rojo and your Contacts
- Link searches (eg. Bloglines citations)

They are playing with my head, now the search stories has disappeared…keep a look out it will be coming soon, I must of caught them experimenting with it.

I was just checking out GROU.PS which enables you to create a read/write web2.0 portal…basically it brings together maps, blogs, wiki, bookmarks, etc…in the one service.
As the name implies it is for groups, so the idea is to create a communal portal…we have seen these all-in-one personal information management tools in the past for individuals, well here’s one for groups.

We are seeing groups in social bookmarking services, such as ma.gnolia, and a wiki is kind of a group by default, and communal blogs are also around…well the idea is to combine all these types of modules into one service.

GROU.PS is similar to these services, it’s like Ziki or a startpage, but for groups, and it is more dashboard oriented, with lots more access to various different types of web2.0 services.

Like Ziki, each group is described with tags, this adds to social discovery.

In a nutshell

Join a group and add your blog, you will then see your blog posts in the Blog section…add your del.icio.us links or choose from another service to see your bookmarks at the Link section (even specify to see bookmarks at the tag level), etc…basically a group river of news for blogs, bookmarks, photo’s, etc…with the bonus of wiki, IM, forums, etc…

If you haven’t got a blog, or use a bookmarks service, you can use the inbuilt blog and bookmark service…the wiki is also inbuilt, you can also post to your favourite forum or use the inbuilt forum….check out the rest of the features.

See more on GROU.PS…here are the modules.

Here’s a group I made called OPML group…also see the start page view
…join a group or start your own.

Keep up with their blog.

PIM

I’d like to have a PIM tool that gives me a userspace, where I can create tabs, each tab launches my favourite service, such as Wiki, RSS Reader, Photo’s, Bookmarks, IM, blog, forum, web monitoring, email, calendar, tasks, etc…but these services launch within the PIM tool somehow, and each service can talk to each other…this would be easy enough to do if all the services were inhouse, but since they come from different providers it’s a bit more complicated due to proprietary issues and data formats.

Basically a build it yourself PIM tool by connecting your favourite services.

What about a personal admin user space where you can access and use (publish)
…actually Startpages also enable you to view your bookmark service, gmail, weather, to-do, etc…this is the kind of idea I’m aimed at, accessing your modules from the one service.
Furthering this concept would enable you to write a blog post, write an email, IM chat, etc…from within the one service.

Startpages and people pages enable you to re-syndicate this type of information on the one page, but this is more of a display…GROU.PS also adds the collaborative aspect.
Although they can be interactive, which is what I’m after…some Startpages let you add a post to your bookmark service, and GROU.PS enables you to post to your favourite forum.

Soon I think we will see these Startpages and people pages incorporate more interactive features and group features, than more than just a re-syndication display page.

I just posted on web2.0 lists, thanks to Mark’s pointer, here’s some more:

Web 2.0 Sites
Everything 2.0
Web 2.0 Navigation Menus

[ADDED 06/05/06: Yet more web2.0 lists]