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Extratasty

This service allows users to publish, search, review drink recipes and get recommendations.

A user can publish a drink recipe using a title, a fixed ingredient list with amounts, directions and tags. An ingredient is automatically turned into a tag.

Users can search recipes through (popular) tags or free search. They can also comment on and rate recipes.

A user can define the things he has in his bar and the service gives the correponding recipes.

As the service only supports structure, it guess only 1 MicroContent web2.0 rating.

tags: drink recipe

Gada.be

A search service using tags. The service only searches tags,which are published on various service providers. The user can do a free search or use one of the pre-defined searches. The pre-defined searches show the zeitgeist,  Interestingly each tag has also its own URL. So have a look at microcontent.gada.be.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, it uses the structure of MicroContent;
• Data Outside - YES, it uses RSS-feeds published elsewhere;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - YES, one can subscribe to a RSS- or OPML-file;
• Web API’s - YES, I got the impression that there are some API’s
• Desktop Integration - YES, in principel it is possible. There is already a Konfabulator widget;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - YES, the usage of tags to search;
• Wild Structure - NO, not relevant here;

tags: microcontent; tag; service; gada.be;

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;

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;

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;

Technorati

Technorati is a search engine, but has a limited search realm: only blog space.

The basic search service allows a user to do a free search (with booleans) in the blogs they aggregate. Interestingly also the bookmarks from del.icio.us/furl and the images from flickr are presented in the results. The results from del.icio.us/furl and flickr are however based on the tags related to those microcontent types. This search service is also geared towards MicroContent as one can search just for tags (or multiple).

A variety of predefined searches can be carried out: the most popular, tags, related tags, popular blogs, books, news, movies.

On the publisher side they have an interesting feature that allows them to close the loop: claim your blog. This allows publishers to add a photo to their blog.

The results are presented in inverse time order: the most recent items appear first.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, it uses blogs, images and bookmarks, but they also recognize reviews for books and movies;
• Data Outside - YES, all the data is aggregated either from users of third party service providers;
• Licenses - NO, they only have a license for the whole site;
• Feeds Galore - YES, the user can create a watchlist from any query and get it delivered through rss;
• Web API’s - YES, developers can interact in a variety of ways;
• Desktop Integration - YES (reluctantly), it is just standard blog-format, so any RSS reader can be used;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - YES, it uses the tag-field in three MicroContent types to bring it together;
• lc Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent; service; search;

Scuttle

Scuttle is an intermediairy site in that has two types of customers: publishers and viewers. The service revolves around bookmarks.

The viewers are offered a guided bookmark services: recent bookmarks, recent tags. The results can be sorted by date, titlke or url. It is also possible to view the bookmarks of a publisher. And on a publishers bookmark-page it is possible to do a free search on that page. As a registered viewer it is also possible to watch bookmarks (although I did not find out what it does).

On the publisher side a user can add bookmarks or import them from the desktop or del.icio.us.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, bookmarks;
• Data Outside - NO, although it is possible to import;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - YES, it is possible to various RSS-feeds;
• 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; scuttle;

Del.icio.us

This Service Provider combines various services into an intermediairy service. It services publishers and viewers.

The basic services is an Enabling one: it allows users to publish their bookmarks on the Internet. A bookmark consists of a title, a url, a description and a set of tags. The bookmarks are published to the entire internet under a license set by the publisher. A viewer can thus see what an individual publisher publishes.

The service aggregates the bookmarks that it is publishing and offers various services to view the bookmarks of the entire community. A free and guided search function are offered. The free search function allows to search through the tag-field of a bookmark. A user can also define a subscription on one or more tags. The predefined search function includes: the latest published bookmarks, the most active tags, todays most popular bookmarks, todays most popular tags, related tags, bookmarks per author. One can subscribe to feeds of all these predefined queries.

Web 2.0 analysis:

• Structured MicroContent - YES, bookmarks. A permalink is however lacking;
• Data Outside - NO, there is no service to either import or subscribe to bookmark feeds. This would be useful;
• Licenses - YES, the user can set under which Creative Commons License his bookmarks are published;
• Feeds Galore - YES, there are a lot of feed possibilities;
• Web API’s - YES, there are several interfaces availablef;
• Desktop Integration - YES, for MacOS-X there is a client that uses the Web API’s;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO, the service does not integrate with other services;
• Wild MicroContent - NO;

tags: microcontent; type; bookmark; tele-service; enabling; publishing;