Talk about rapid response! The codemonkeys at Gataga report that they have already added all the features I mentioned in my post yesterday. If Ben and Jerry were half as responsive to my suggestions, we’d all have chocolate-covered espresso beans in our ice cream by now.
With the addition of RSS feeds and a longer list of sites searched, Gataga will be a very useful tool for anyone trying to keep track of the ever-expanding amount of tagged content on an ever-expanding number of social bookmarking sites. I’ve just subcribed to a search on the tag “e-democracy”, and I imagine all the good folk tracking the “nptech” tag will find this useful for their purposes too.
One more suggestion for the codemonkeys: one of the nice features of Gataga’s web-based search is that you see where each result comes from (del.icio.us, blogmarks, jots, etc.). It would be great if that info could be included in the RSS feeds too; one of the interesting benefits of Gataga’s service is that it lets you see which services people use to bookmark the subjects you’re interested in.
Gataga - Social Bookmarking Search Engine
Company: Gataga
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Hi Alexandra, we’ve added the source, and improved our feeds for compatibility. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the suggestions.
Comment by codemonkeys — June 15, 2005 @ 4:19 am
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