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April 3, 2007

Roundup : StreetAdvisor, BlogRovr, Serph, BubbleGuru, Open Floodgate, Leaptag

Filed under: tools, roundup

BlogRovr - a type of related posts browser plugin, subscribe to a bunch of feeds in BlogRovr, then when you are on a blog post click BlogRovr to display related content from your BlogRover sphere…a kind of on demand memetracker. [via RRW]

StreetAdvisor - social network type of map look up…add reviews and ratings about street and neighbourhoods. [TC]

Serph - meta-buzz search engine…enter a search and find the live buzz, a but like Technorati or memetrackers (only with search).

BubbleGuru - pop-up video for your blog visitors, also send video’s in an email, added to my blog visitor post…also see more video email. [via WW]

OpenFloodgate - similar to Scribd, a social bookmarks for documents, it has a user space and also group collections, I see it as a type of social list. [via TC]

Leaptag - a type of personalisation engine where you define some tags, just like MyFeedz, but unlike MyFeedz you don’t have the choice to import your OPML. Leaptag will dish out results from various search engines based on your tags, just like MyFeedz you can rate results in order to tune the engine.
Actually it seems you don’t just define a set of tags (like StumbleUpon), but rather use the browser to tag websites, this way Leaptag not only knows the tags you are interested in, but also the context, or an example of something that would be tagged with that tag.
The delivery kind of works like an RSS Reader, and you can share your tags with friends, so it has social recommendation, not sure if it collecting these websites you tag or if you can bookmark websites it delivers you. [via SS]

EmailTwitter.com : post to Twitter

Filed under: blogs, mobile

Yesterday I posted on mail2twitter, and mentioned how pleased I was to be able to use my mobile phone email.
Now that I can send my Twitter updates by email, my new issue is in receiving Twitter updates as email digests.

EmailTwitter.com is similar in that you can send Twitter updates from your phone, much the same as mail2twitter, an added option is that you can register, so you can make Twitter updates without having to enter your password and login in the subject line each time, something Stowe Boyd would be pleased to see.

The other nifty bonus is that when you receive your auto-reply email from EmailTwitter.com after making a tweet, it will not only notify that your tweet was successful, but it will also include the most recent tweet from your friends.

My question is, do I have to post in order to get the most recent tweets from my friends via the auto-reply, or can I just send a blank email in order to be emailed back my friends updates, ie. updates on demand, just like Gubb does with your lists.

Test

I registered, which is great, now I can leave the subject line blank.

I also received an auto-reply with the most recent tweet from my friends, but only the last recent, what about the last 10 tweets.

The auto-reply didn’t work to good on my phone email, I got this error:

Your Twitter update was received. Here is the most recent Tweet from you or your friends:

[Tue Apr 03 00:53:54 +0000 2007] - “johnt”: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

——_=_NextPart_001_01C7758A.266509DA
Content-Type: text/plain

[ADDED 4/04/07: EmailTwitter.com now has email updates on demand and direct messages]

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