Library clips :: July

July 4, 2006

ziki : search you web 2.0

Filed under: rss, newsmaster, readers, search, attention

I’ve mentioned a few times how cool Ziki is…it’s a place to collate all your web 2.0 interactions via the re-syndication wonders of RSS. Your content is organised into feed types such as; posts, bookmarks, comments, photo’s, etc…

If you have multiple blogs you can enter these feeds into the posts feed type…this way “posts” will have a spliced feed of your blog content, it will also generate an OPML Reading List of all your blogs, same goes with the other feed types. You also have a general level spliced feed and OPML for your whole ziki account.

Just briefly, this all takes place in a social system, so you know what that means, tags and discovering like people and like content…plus the in vogue people tagging feature (you can tag yourself, and soon it will allow others to tag you as well.)

Not only are you generating spliced feeds and OPML’s but you can view the stream of contents in ziki.

Anyway, ziki have now released a search feature, that’s right, now you can search your posts from all your blogs, all your bookmarks, all your comments, etc…in the one search.

NOTE: the search result doesn’t generate a unique URL, meaning you can’t point to a search result…this also means you don’t get RSS for search results.

I was just thinking, if you use tags for all your blogs and bookmarks, etc…could you browse all your blog posts, bookmarks, comments, etc…by author tags (like you can on SuprGlu and MySyndicaat).
[UPDATE 7/07/06: Yes you can there is a tag cloud in the archives section]

NOTE: Coming to think of it you can search all your web2.0 interactions at any Public RSS Reader like MySyndicaat, Blogdigger groups, feed collectors, etc…

Anyway, I’d like to see some ziki code to be able to put a search box on my blog, that way people can search me all over the place from the one box in my blog.

Search My Ziki, this will search my blog, blog comments, my bookmarks, and comments I make elsewhere.

If you want to subscribe to this content in one feed, here is my ziki feed …maybe I should put it through Feedburner…graze it now.