JamBase

This service is a comprehensive portal for the music enthousiast. It combines serveral services on music: information articles, information on tours, a personal site and search. The search functions allows a user to search on date, venue, city and band. Thus it acknowledges MicroContent structure.

I am not sure whether I should call this a MicroContent services or even a Web 2.0 service. At the moment it is a Music Affinity Context service for me.

tags: service; jambase;

Exalead

This service allows users to search web-pages in various form. It is a free format search services. The advanced search option had various possibilities for specifying metadata. MicroContent is not acknowledged.

TagFacts

This service allows user to create notes. Each note consists of a title, a description, a URL and tags. A user can create and publish these notes. Notes are published as web-pages on for example http://tagfacts.com/aleene/and as RSS.

The service alsso allows to search notes of other users and see which tags are used. Thus it is also a search search for their own realm.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, as shown above;
• Data Outside - NO;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - YES, - notes of each user are published as feeds;
• Web API’s - YES, some things can be done with Javascript;
• Desktop Integration - YES, notes can be read through a NewsReader;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• Wild Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent; type; notes; service; tagfacts;

JotSpot Live

This service allows the user to create web-pages by simple editing. The service allows other users to edit the same page, which gives it a Wiki kind of approach. There is not much MicroContent to this service.

tags: wiki; service;

Pluck

Pluck is a blog aggregation service. The user can read RSS-feeds or web-pages in a Ajax compatible browser. The user can creates folders with RSS_feeds of Bookmarks. The user can select what timeframe he sees (today, this week, this month). Each item shows the Title and content. An item can be collapes, emailed, saved or sent to Schadows. The service also has an plug-in for Firefox, which offers the List and Items-view of a client.

tags: microcontent type blog bookmark

Netvibes

Netvibes allows the user to create a personal start page. A startpage consists of a three column-format with one or more blocks per column.  Each block is called a feature and can contain certain content. A feauture can be a rss-feed, a note, the weather, a search field or the gmail mailbox. Each element can be seen as the Items-view for either a MicroContent item or list of Items. One could call this an aggregator of MicroContent.

tags: microcontent service

Google BlogSearch

This service allows a user to perform a free search in the blogosphere. Results are presents as a title_link, date, first sentences and a blog-title-link. Results can be sorted on relevance or publication date. One can also subscribe to a query in RSS or Atom format. The search result also includes a related blog, which is dedicate to the query subject.

tags: microcontent; type; blog; search; service;

Kiko

This service offers users a calendar service. Users can keep track of events in a calendar format. There are several features for sharing calendars with other users.

tags: microcontent; type; event;

Revealicious

This service allows a user to view his the tags and the realtion between the tags as available on del.icio.us in a different way. The user logs in with his del.icio.us username and then the data is retrieved. The servics has three smaller services based on Flash that visualise the dataset.

tags: microcontent; tags; service;

Memeorandum

This service shows the most popular entries in the blogosphere on tech and politics. The services aggregates blog-items around subjects and sorts them along popularity using a sliding time frame. Each entry is shown with a title and small summary.

tags: microcontent; service;

Listal

This service allows a user to created a list of books/dvd’s/cd’s/games he owns or wants. The user just has to type in the title and the services checks Amazon for teh relevant information. The user can add some private and public information to the item. The private information consists of a rating (10-point scale), consume status (read, listened to…), condition and nots. The public information consists of a rating, tags and a review. On an Item page one can see also other users who own the item.

A user also has a public site with his items (Mine is at aleene.listal.com).

• Structured MicroContent - YES, reviews;
• Data Outside - NO, it would be great if it could subscribe to my feeds
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - NO, I did not see any;
• Web API’s - NO, not that I am aware of;
• Desktop Integration - NO;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• Wild Structure - NO;
• Cross Platform - NO, Firefox only

tags: microcontent; type; review; service; listal;

RawSugar

This service is basically a bookmarking service. It allows users to upload and create bookmarks. It seems that one can only create a bookmark through a button in the browser (which is a bit to limited).

There is however a strong emphasis on searching as well. Users can browse some predefined searches (top 10 people, searches) or do a free search on the entire database. A user can search through his own bookmarks based on tags (a few are suggested) or do a free search on his own bookmarks.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, bookmarks;
• Data Outside - NO, although one can upload bookmarks from the browser or import from del.icio.us
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - YES, there are some of feed possibilities;
• Web API’s - NO, not that I am aware of;
• Desktop Integration - NO;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• Wild Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent; type; bookmark; service; wildsugar;

Writely

This service allows the user to create documents.  The service consists of a document manager and an editor. The editor allows the user to set fonts, sizes, etc. And the document manager shows the documents that have been produced. The user can tag, rate (star) and activate a document. The interesting feature of the service is that the user can see who can author and view a document. One can also see all teh revisions of a document and revert if necessary. But a document can also be published to the entire Internet.

I am not sure whether this is a Web 2.0 service. The service does have import and export facilities, which makes it Datalibre compliant. I like the access control, but miss the licenses. And I would like to see a RSS-feed per document.

tags: microcontent; service; writely;

Jeteye

Jeteye is a combination between a search service and a bookmarking service.

The search service allows users to do a free search, which uses Google, but one can change to other search service providers. The search service also searches the Jetpaks created by users. Jetpaks are collections of links, images and notes. These Jetpaks are created by users of the bookmarking service. Search results are shown in reverse time-order. Each item shows the title, a summary and a link of the Item. A user can expand an Item to see the full web-page.

The primary service seems to be a bookmarking-service. A user can create collections called jetpaks. A jetpak can contain bookmarks, image urls and notes. One can assign a title and tags to a jetpak. The most interesting feature however is that it is very easy to add a search result to a jetpak: just clicking a button.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, it recognized bookmarks and images;
• Data Outside - NO, it is not possible to subscribe to other bookmark services.;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - NO, where is the RSS of a jetpak?;
• Web API’s - NO, not that I am aware of;
• Desktop Integration - NO;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• lc Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent; type; bookmark; service; jeteye;

The Personal Bee

This Service Providers delivers an information service based on the blogosphere. It provides several Public Bees, which cover a subject area. For each area the user can see the relevant tags and the relevant blog items. Clicking a tag, the user gets the associated news items. The user can also get a RSS-feed of a Personal Bee. The main difference with a normal search service is the fact a human being helps with the aggregation.

It is also possible to signup as bee and create your own channel.

tags: microcontent; type; blog; service; thepersonalbee;