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Found this via Pete.

I'm familiar with Idealab, which is behind Snap (very much a Search 2.0 site) and I think they were behind Overture as well (or was Overture pre-Idealab?).

Hop on the Hughtrain

The Hughpage wiki is described as an Open-Source Craiglist for Bloggers.

Wondir's hourly feed

I'm not sure how to add a Technorati search box to this blog, given Typepad's templates, Typelists, etc, so I'm using the second method Technorati suggests for claiming a feed, in this case our hourly feed (our means of syndicating 100% of posted questions at Wondir). I just have to post the following link to prove to Technorati that this is indeed our feed:

Technorati Profile

Click fraud

Is click fraud really this high?

Micro-Wondir

Great piece here from Arnaud Leene on the intricacies of microformatting and how Wondir fits in. He gives it a lot of thought and acknowledges the difficulty, as Wondir is a very different animal in the blogosphere.

The reason this matters is that microformatting your content is a way of telling the world upon syndication what kind of content you're syndicating- in our case, these aren't standard blog posts, these are questions begging answers. Pete had a great suggestion on the phone last week. He suggested we use the tag field in the XML code to make our syndicated content machine readable. In other words, tag the questions as questions automatically, so any "machine" out there will automatically know this is a question and not a standard blog post.

Another cool thing Pete suggested is setting up a Wondir ping-server (?) with a persistent trackback URL, such that whenever anyone in the blogosphere posted a question on their blog, they could ping us (trackback to us) to tell us that they were posting a question that begged an answer. We'd then grab the question from their blog and re-post it to the Wondir answer-community for a response. We'd have to figure out how to communicate to the blogger how to find their answer once a response posted at Wondir, or perhaps we could automatically ping them (trackback) back when the answer/response is posted at Wondir. Something to ponder :)

Tags: Wondir, microformats

AttentionTrust.org

Have a look (via Pete). Although I haven't signed their petition or anything just yet, I'm interested in exploring anything that focuses on attention, trust metrics and the like. I wonder if this has any connection with attention.XML, Digital Identity, etc.

Technorati tags: attention, trust

Enginization

Mary Hodder of Napsterization gets serious about comparing the blog engines and other RSS syndication, search and aggregation tools. If you're into this kind of thing, I'd definitely subscribe to her blog, as this post is the the first in a six part series, and Mary knows what she's talking about. I see Doc, Sifry, Scoble and Randy Morin are already chiming in. I'd agree w/ Randy that kbcafe might be useful in her analysis, as its the first quasi-meta RSS-blog engine I've seen, bringing them all (well, almost all of them) together in one place, so I'm still using it for my start page.

Technorati tags: RSS, search

More on microformatting the future...

Found this post at The Community Engine  on microformats from Cori, using the Share feature at Rojo. Focused on how microformatting does two jobs at once: "they are simultaneously both just html and just xml." Very good stuff there, worth the read. He also makes the argument that they're preferrable to structured blogging, although I'm not sure that structured blogging and microformatting are mutually exclusive. I think structured blogging (which I've understood to mean blogging in small bits, each post sticking to one subject) is more of an expedient.

Tags: Rojo, microformats

Firefox, meet KB Cafe

Just added KBCafe's search plug-in to my Firefox search box. Thanks to Cori's post and creation and an email from Randy Marin.

Just posted about the engine itself below, didn't realize there was a plugin. I actually use the Firefox search box much more often than engines at any URLs. The search box is now the central component of my browser, although they need to make the default search box a lot wider in Firefox imho.

Btw, KBCafe is about the closest I've seen so far to a meta-RSS engine. It doesn't search them all at once, but you can instantly switch to results from pretty much any blog-related engine out there. I'm keeping them as my home page for a while at least.

He he... :)

Saw this at pc4media