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Solution Watch has posted about Glue, a site where you can publish content, but you don’t get a public webpage to display it, but there are choices to display your output: RSS, javascript, flash, etc…

So basically you show off your content as a feed widget or re-syndicate it somehow, similar to publi.sh or LinkRSS…you can also post by email just like publi.sh, what about IM like Sabifoo. You can also upload photos, and it is very mobile friendly.

Publishing content to the web or to an SMS group or both is becoming very easy, especially of late it is moving to more disposable content and more accessible and immediate for on the go (mobiles).

Examples of late:
Loopnote - publish/receive via SMS
Zemble, Mixd, Joopz, Kiboze, Mozeo, 3jam Twitter, Jaiku - publish/receive via SMS
Rasasa, ZapTXT, Blastfeed - alert via several formats

Ziki is a personal content management service within a social network, so I guess you could call it a personal network service. The premise is one spot to host (re-syndicate) all the content from your social networks, blogs, etc.. This way if someome wants to browse/search your content, thay can do it from the one spot.

Other features:
- Host a Reading List
- Tag yourself (people can find you by tag…expert locator)
- Tag contacts (when you add a contact you can organise them by personal tags)
- Search a Ziki (unlike Lijit you can’t search across a persons personal network)
- Browse a tag cloud of your content (it re-syndicates tags within the RSS feed)

Now posting has been added to the mix, that’s right, Ziki is not just about re-syndication, it is also now a place to post content, basically an inbuilt blog.

It’s not just a text blog you can include images, and code widgets from other services, just like a regular blog.

Next I’m thinking is a bookmarklet to post to my Ziki blog, this is great you can use it to blog or even clip content I guess, similar to the new feature in Top 10 Sources.

These Ziki posts are grouped in the “posts” stream, like all the other feeds you are re-syndicating, you can’t limit content to just one feed, this means you can’t see just all posts from your personal ziki blog.
Same applies to other streams like “bookmarks”, if you are re-syndicating feeds from various bookmark services, you can’t view content limited to one bookmark service, you can only view content from the “bookmarks” stream (mixed posts from all the bookmark services you use).

Come to think of it, this means your Ziki blog doesn’t have it’s own RSS feed, not that I can see anyway.

A similar service to Jaiku, here you can re-syndicate your personal content in the one site and you can also post content…but Jaiku has a different concept, more based on chronic posting.

Lijit is similar to personal network services like Ziki, these are services where you can collate all your web 2.0 interactions…I like SuprGlu as it is in a blog format, but Ziki and Lijit are different as they are in a network environment. I suppose Jaiku is similar, but its focus is moreso on manually posting about what you are doing.

Identity sites like claimID, simplifID, Namyz are kind of similar as personal network sites, but they are not networked in a social environment.
Then there Hictu which displays your current IM network status, ie. you are able to see the availability status of a person across various services…it also serves as an online contact book.

Basically Lijit, like Ziki, is a place to manage all you online identities, further to this people can then search across all your content, including content of your contacts, etc…

Lijit believe if you are searching for something you can search across the social filter of your Lijit contacts…so far Ziki lets you search in the content of one user, but not across that users network.

When you join Lijit it attempts to find your username across several social networks, you can also manually add a feed. Then what it will do is re-syndicate a stream of all your stuff just like Jaiku and Ziki. Add some contacts and search across them.

From the website:

“What if, you could search a person?
A single search for ‘television’ through that person’s eyes could returns blog posts the person had authored as well as bookmarks they made of TV related content

What if, you could search a group of people and their connections, through a person?”

Check out the widgit…and this blog post.

He is a random example of a user.

This is the idea for Topic Network services like Squidoo and the rest, the difference here is that it is more intimate, as you are searching across your contacts and degrees of connection thereof.

At the moment I use Ziki for personal content management, reason being is that it doubles up as an expert locator, ie. you can describe yourself with tags, then you can search the network to find people that match your search term. Further to that, when you add someone to your network you get to privately tag them.
Ziki also allows you to upload your OPML Reading List.

[ADDED: Searching your Ziki network is coming]