Library clips

We need a service for inlinks like what CoComments does for comments, Profilactic is a start as it has this as a feature (they call it “clippings”), but a dedicated service would be better.

Maybe it can be called “Who’s talkin’ about you”, or “ego tracker”, each user can click a bookmarklet to bookmark and tag their inlinks…doesn’t really have to be a social service. But I like the idea of the latest stream of inlinks as my blog doesn’t have this feature, and search engines like Technorati are only so stable or reliable.
I guess when you bookmark an inlink you would have to let the system know which blog post of yours it is refering to, this way the system could rank your most popular blog posts, and you could also see this by tag.
Another feature of this service would be an RSS Reader for ego tracking.

Suggested features

- track your ego feeds (de-dupe posts that appear in various ego feeds)…some people track their ego feeds at 4 or 5 engines then splice them into a feed at Feed Digest and take out the duplicates, another option is to use TalkDigger.

- perhaps you can do the step above within the system, that is the RSS Reader will ask you to input your blog feed and it will generate a spliced feed from various engines, which you can then read in the inbuilt RSS Reader and clip to your collection.

- avoid showing self inflicted inlinks (this is when you point to your own blog posts)…TalkDigger mentions that you can set it to ignore inlinks from your own domain.

- while you are there it might as well have a BlogPulse Conversation Tracker for each of your blog posts

- if you choose not to use the inbuilt RSS Reader, use a bookmarklet to bookmark and tag a post that is talking about one of your posts (perhaps use the same tag you used for your blog post).
Now that you will have bookmarked a post how will the system know which blog post of your it is talking about?…perhaps at the time of bookmarking the bookmarklet would auto-discover your blog post URL as well, by looking for your domain name in the links within this post you are bookmarking.

- view the latest stream of inlinks

- view a stream of inlinks limited to one blog post

- view a stream of inlinks limited to one tag

- view your most popular blog posts according to the number of inlinks, also have this view by tag

The new TalkDigger has some interesting features, in that it lets you bookmark link searches, and others who haven’t linked to a post can alternately talk about it by leaving a comment within TalkDigger.

Voice2Page - Place a widget on your blog, visitors or the blog owner can leave audio messages and listen to other audio messages. You can also leave a message by dialing a number listed on the widget. Visitors can also leave private messages to the blog owner…see this post for more of these services.

Odiogo - create an audio feed for your blog, also an mp3 link for each post, seems to offer the same service as Talkr.

wattpad - a mobile social network based on texts, it’s kind of like a generic social blog network. Each text has a permalink, tags, votes and comments…each user has a profile of all their texts…see the latest. I suppose Loopnote, Twitter, and Jaiku are similar in there own way, in contrast these services are more about alerts/status/presence, whereas wattpad is just any old conent.
Similar networks on the web are Sponit, CommonGate, feedXS…and the citizen journalism blog networks.

ScoopLive - make money from your photo’s, sounds like Scoopt, see more.

UpScoop - a search engine for identities…helps you find the services/networks your friends belong to by scanning their email address via the contacts list you upload to the service. To manage you identity or various network profiles see Ziki, Lijit, ProfileLinker, SocialNetwork.In, Ozmozr, and pidy.

Profilactic - yet another meta-identity service, see above for others. One feature I do like is clippings, this is basically bookmarking all the blog posts about you (inlinks/trackbacks), at the moment I’m bookmarking all my inlinks to a social bookmark manager.
Another idea would be for it to have a similar feature to bookmark all the comments you make in the blogosphere, but I suppose you can just enter in CoComment as one of your identities.

There are lots of services that allow you to re-syndicate the contents of an RSS feed, I have a list here, Feedo Style being the most comprehensive.
On my blog I am currently using a service called RapidFeeds, this allows visitors to grab a box to put on their blog which will re-syndicate the headlines of my blog. You can also use it to display your latest posts, but I use FeedZilla for this as I like the small scrolling window, I’d prefer Feedo Style, but they aren’t a free service.

What’s happening at the moment is that widgets are taking over, you can now re-syndicate an RSS feed into a widget…CleverClogs points to mashable’s post about RSS widgets using MuseStorm.

Why are widgets better?

- you can put a widget on your blog sidebar of your latest posts, then a visitor can, with one click, copy that widget and put it on their blog, or startpage, or anywhere a widget is welcome…you can also put a widget on your real desktop.
- your widget also lives in a gallery, at the service you create it in eg. MuseStorm
- you can track metrics/statistics for your widget (similar to what Feedburner does for your feed)

In saying this RapidFeeds does most of these things: re-syndicate posts, button to add the re-syndication panel to your own site, and track statistics…but it doesn’t live in a gallery, it can’t be put on your desktop and it doesn’t have the flare, versatilty, customisation and hipness of widgets.

As I mentioned I use RapidFeeds for people to copy my headlines and take elsewhere, and FeedZilla as a ticker that re-syndicates my latest posts in a scrolling fashion. Well it seems I can now use a widget instead to do both these things: show latest headlines, and allow people to take these headlines to put on their own site, with the bonus of promoting it in a gallery, and getting metrics.

Also note that Feedburner has overhauled their Headline Animator, basically a widget that re-syndicates your posts. You can make all different sorts, some are real small suitable for inclusion in an email signature, and others even allow you to listen or watch posts.

So an idea is not only to have a widget on your blog sidebar that re-syndicates your posts, but also to have the Feedburner ticker type widget at the end of all your blog posts…or use a widget service to do this.

Only thing is that when you click on a post in the Headline Animator it only goes to the feed homepage, in contrast with FeedZilla or widgets it goes to that post. I’m told using Buzzboost that posts will point to the post page and not just the feed home page, I’m also told that you can perhaps alter the code in the Headline Animator to do the same thing.

Let me know, if anyone out there can modify the code so that when you click on a post in the Headline Animator it will go to the actual permalink of that blog post instead of the feed homepage (landing page).

Cleverclogs also points to Flaremaker as an alternative to using the Headline Animator, it seems clicking on a headline will take you to the actual blog post.

Feedburner also has another widget offering by teaming up with SpringWidgets. I guess the difference here is that you can read posts in the widget, and visitor can copy the widget…I still see this as very similar to the Headline Animator, maybe these could be merged somehow into the one feature. Feedburner also offer Buzzboost as another re-syndication feature, RSS to HTML, I really think these 3 features could come under the one module, as they are all variations of the same idea.

Anyway similar to MuseStorm, visitors can take it and put it onto a webpage or on their actual desktop…more.

Mashable mentions other widget services tracking statistics besides Springbox (I take it Feedburner will introduce metrics in the future) and MuseStorm, such as Widgetbox and ClearSpring.

[ADDED 2/02/07: Widgetbox now has Blidgets - make a widget of your blog, and get stats.]

[ADDED 1/03/07: Beon-RSS Factory RSS widgets for your desktop so far]

[ADDED 20/03/07: yourminis blogwidgets]