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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

Hictu – Keep your contacts updated in style

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Hictu is a new Web application which allows users to provide and receive availability information about their contacts. Through a one-to-one, secure authorization mechanism users can invite their contacts and in just few minutes retrieve a useful set of information regarding their availability and communication means. It supports majority of communication platforms for each of your contacts, you can keep your contacts updated through Post including audio, video, text and RSS feed changes.

Hictu can record from your microphone or webcam directly using Adobe flash technology.

hictu post message

Once your friends accepts the invitations from you you will be able to see their communication preferences

hictu how the contacts works

Features Hictu currently missing out is : 

  1. Selectively display updates from Selected contacts or from Public
  2. Scheduled posting of messages
  3. Add import options to import from popular webmail platforms
  4. Ability to create a group contacts, as example: family, relatives, friends, co-workers etc.
  5. Interface improvement
  6. Synchronize with Twitter or similar applications
  7. Post via E-mail, post something just sending a secret e-mail alias.
  8. Photo attachment in posts

Written by Ruhani Rabin

July 25th, 2007 at 1:23 am

G.ho.st the virtual internet operating system

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G.ho.st is a collection of web 2.0 applications tied together inside a globally hosted operating system. So once you signup with their operating system you'll be given a separate space for you including the operating systems applications. It gives you the mobility of using the same operating system from anywhere. The concept is to virtually present a pc with an operating system using your regular web browser. By default you will get a 3GB space upon signup. It actually consists of many web 2.0 applications in a single connected web operating system environment. I personally find it amazing and yes i would really like to see the future development of this product. Entirely powered by Adobe Flash, Javascript and Ajax brings you the streamlined web 2.0 operating system on your hand. It includes several games, powerful RSS reader, Youtube explorer, file manager, desktop applications and more. You will be able to upload your own files, presentations, documents, articles and maintain those inside the OS. It's still at the alpha stage of development and I am sure there will be lot more features once it is completed. What are the features inside? Lets just take a look at the features list.

  • A complete free virtual computer in your browser
  • Available from anywhere
  • Always booted, backed-up, up-to-date & secure
  • Easy &fun
  • Strong support for collaboration
  • Single sign-in desktop for Web applications
  • Single file system for files form different Web applications
  • Interoperability of files and data between Web applications
  • Free storage (Free 3GB)
  • Common Windows or Linux look and feel

Lets Take a look at the photos:

ghost welcome screen

ghost start menu and desktop browser windows

ghost youtube explorer and player

ghost a huge number of games inside too

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Written by Ruhani Rabin

April 27th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

FeedFlash generating flash reusable RSS widgets

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FeedFlash can help you creating Flash based RSS widgets to display your feeds on any sites accepting embedded html codes. It's an interesting way to show whats new on your other sites like myspace, blogger and others which you can  insert html codes. FeedFlash is a very easy-to-use tool that lets you create RSS reader widget. Just enter your desirable URL or feed link and FeedFlash will supply you a script code to embed to your blog. You can also choose your favorites color for this reader.

Written by Ruhani Rabin

March 27th, 2007 at 5:09 pm

rCache – Make Your own repository

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rCache is a caching tool. It's designed to use with firefox browser as an extension, which is that always-there place to store data that you want to refer back to. Bookmarks and saving web page data to your computer's disk can be messy and slow processes. Your data is stored on your hard disk tends to be unorganized.

rCache frees you from this, by giving you your own research repository online – where you can store articles, blog postings, documents and images. Tagging and full-text keyword searching is a snap. You can store data that you may want to cite in your research, white paper, article or your own blog posting.

rCache currently offering the features below:

Collect data from web pages, PDFs, Word Documents and other resources.
Index all of this data in a searchable, browsable database.
Tagging of Entries makes pinpoint filtering easy.
Filter your data by the Entry's source domain name.
Search your data by keyword or phrase.
RSS: Use an RSS reader to keep track of your most recent Entries or any tag based lookups into your data.
Collaborate: Give colleagues access to your research data, with restrictions based on tags or keyword searches.

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Written by Ruhani Rabin

March 22nd, 2007 at 9:20 am