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Freshblog explains the new network feature from del.icio.us.

The inbox allowed you to see the latest bookmarks from a user, a user tag, or a tag.

Well now you can still follow tags, or user tags via the inbox, but to follow a user you have to use the network section…basically the inbox section has been split up.

This has happened for a good reason, when you add someone to your network you can see their latest bookmarks…the bonus is that when you use the bookmarklet to add a new bookmark to your account, you not only choose tags, you can also send that bookmark to someone in your network…it will appear in that persons “links for you” section.

So, you can send people links by manually adding their for:name as a tag at the time of bookmarking, but if these people are already in your “network”, then you can do this with one click of the button.

It would be good to have a user search, there is an add user box on the network page, but what if you don’t know the users name.

BoardTracker is a meta-search engine for forums and message boards…you can search all the forums in one go, or search a selection of forums by selecting a category, or search in your saved threads.

Then the web2.0 features start rolling in…

Tags

You can search for a term in your threads, or a term in a category, or all categories
…when you save your threads you can also tag them…this means (via advanced search) you can search for a tag in your threads, or a term in a category, or all categories.

Another option is to browse content via categories (it doesn’t browse to a single forum)…or to browse content via the tag cloud on the main page.

Maybe site: searching allows to search a single forum, I know on Google a site search will find a search term on all the webpages from a website, so this may mean it will find all occurences of a term from a forum or board, but then a drop down menu would be more suitable…hmmm…anyway site searching is via the domain field in the advanced search, or just use the keyword box, eg. site:boardtracker.com tagging.

Back to tagging…from a search results page you can add a tag to an item which saves it for you, you can also see tags items already have, clicking on this will do a tag search.

The catch is to see all your tagged items or even your tag cloud it is a costly exercise, I mean money
…for now you can do a tag search limited to your threads.

Only thing is what if I can’t remember tags I used…need to cough up the money for a user space.

Here is an example of a user space (a paying customer)…where’s the tag cloud!

I believe community features are coming soon, ie. related tags, who tagged this thread, etc…

RSS

Now it includes search feeds so you can stay on top of the latest according to your search term (beats email alerts).

Even a tag search limited to your threads generates a feed, ie. a feed for each of your tags…I wonder if you could get a feed for your user space (all your saved threads).

If you don’t use feeds, you can keep up with the latest category contents or search terms via the My Alerts section…receive alerts by email or IM…I’d like to store all my RSS feeds here (not neccessarily display the contents).

More

Incorporate a tag cloud for your blog or website for threads you have tagged in BoardTracker…or any tag search I guess.

Also incorporate a BoardTracker search box for your site.

If a forum is indexed by Boardtracker it can be used as a search engine for just that forum, also create tagging for your forum via BoardTracker…kind of like what Connotea does for e-prints.

Funnily enough BoardTracker have their own forum, they also have a blog.

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[ADDED: I’d like to do generate a feed for a link: search so you can track people talking about your blog posts in forums…I suppose a text search for your blog name or your actual name might help a bit…]