Feedster.
“Feedster”:http://www.feedster.com/ could become a “must use” weblogging tool.
Consider you have a subject you want to talk about, and you want to find out what others are thinking about. A “google”:http://www.google.com search doesn’t usually give you this information. It gives you traditional websites, not current opinions. Feedster gives you this.
For example, “this is Feedster search for Farscape”:http://www.feedster.com/search.php?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=farscape&btnG=Search&sort= giving you an instant view from a multitude of RSS feeds. Note how you can get this as an “RSS feed”:http://www.feedster.com/rss.php?q=farscape and think how easy it could be to programmatically include this content in your weblog entry.
March 28th, 2003 at 11:32
I am dying out for an excuse to use this. However, I’m a little worried that it won’t know what to search on; a google search on a post title will bring up lots of hits, but Feedster doesn’t index all that much, and so a post title might not return results. This is, of course, a pointer to use proper rather than clever-clever post titles: if this post had been called “The Power of Feedster” then you’d have a lot fewer hits on it.
March 28th, 2003 at 14:14
Yep, if you go for clever-clever titles and a “Feedster it” feature, it won’t work. I was half thinking along the lines of something (for example, a Vellum plugin) that you can add keywords (there is a keyword field in MT too; never used it) to do the search on.
As Feedster grows its index, it is more likely it will find something.
When I wrote this entry, I wasn’t think so much of a Google It function, but something more clever involving programming that would be too clever for me to write
March 28th, 2003 at 14:15
And I must fix this paragraph bug I have in the comments