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Lijit lets you create your own social search engine

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Lijit, the missing piece of Google site search and a overhauled combination of Google’s custom search engine. Usually when we think about doing search on the web the first search engine comes to our mind is Google. But there are situations when Google actually provides a lot of search results and it could be a time consuming matter to find the trusted results you were actually looking for. Let me put up a scenario, let’s say I would like to buy a digital camera, who would i ask first? I would look into my contacts, call up my colleague or a friend who is actually using digital camera for a while. I would naturally  honor his/her opinion and thoughts into my consideration. Lijit made it possible to work the Google search in such manner. Lijit actually do a search on the people and the networks you related to and bring up the socially connected results to you. So when you search using Lijit using the topic camera, it search through your blog networks, friends, your social networking site, your bookmarks and more. Lijit provides an impressive search network creation dashboard where you can define and manage your trusted social networks connections. Basically you are creating your own search engine that searches your blog, bookmarks, photos, blog roll, and more. By offering the Lijit Search Wijit on your blog, readers can search all of YOU. In turn, Lijit gives you detailed statistics about those searches, so you can better understand and serve your reader community. Here is a simple graphical presentation of Lijit network topology

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Using the power of people, their content, and their connections, Lijit enhances the way your readers search for and discover information on the internet. You serve as a filter for all of the results your readers could possibly receive, ensuring they only receive the most relevant results from the source they trust…YOU.

 

Yes, it do works like it works in Real Life.

 

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Written by Ruhani Rabin

December 6th, 2008 at 3:13 am

DabbleDB: Build Your Own Online App

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Dabble combines the best of group spreadsheets, custom databases, and intranet web applications into a new way to manage and share your information online. You can use Dabble to:

  • Model your business

    Choose your own categories of data. Add as many fields as you need. Link to other data. Extend or change the model at any time.

  • Share your data

    Access your database from anywhere over the web. Invite your colleagues to browse or edit it. Export to your spreadsheet or to PDF. Keep tabs on changes through your newsreader or your calendar.

  • Explore your data

    Search through your data instantly. Navigate via links and backlinks. Interactively group, sort, and filter the results. Then save that view and share it with others.

  • Get smart results

    Start off entering text. Then give Dabble some hints: with native support for dates and times, URLs and email addresses, street addresses, currency, and other data types, Dabble can give you calendar views, subtotals, and more at no extra cost.

What could I build with Dabble?

These are a few examples of applications that we’ve built in Dabble. We hope they inspire you to come up with your own uses. (Click on a thumbnail for a full-size screenshot.)

  • Track your company’s billable hours; group them by project or employee and total them up.

    Billable hours application

  • Manage your staff schedule; give each employee a custom view of their upcoming shifts.

    Calendar application

  • Organize a conference; search for events by room, by presenter, by topic, by type…

    Conference application

  • Record your expenses; add different fields for each type of payment.

    Expenses application

DabbleDB is a platform that allows you to create applications online using a web interface. The sort of applications you would create and then use are what most of us normally hack together in a spreadsheet or using some other database application that is often complex.

Written by Ruhani Rabin

March 12th, 2006 at 4:21 am