Tele-Services

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

Stuffopolis

A service where a user can store an overview of his possesions, such as CD’s, books, board games, etc. A user can also publish his collection, so that it can be search by others. The service integrates with Amazon in order to populate various fields.

PageBites

Service that allows user to create and publish jo postings and resumes. The service also crawls the Internet for resumes and job openings.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, there seems to be some structure, but it is not very formalised;
• Data Outside - YES, the MicroContent can be outside, but I am not sure how the service understands the structure;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - YES, there are some feed possibilities;
• Web API’s - NO, not that I am aware of;
• Desktop Integration - Yes, it is just standard blog-format, so any RSS reader can be used;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• Wild Structure - NO, although one can create onything on a resume;

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;

Vimeo

A service for hosting and publishing video content. It is possible to search in some metadata of the video, such as the title and tags.

tags: microcontent; vimeo; type; video;

Codase

This search engine allows a free search into source code. The engine is programming language aware and will thus result in better results.

Trulia

This service offers a free search service into real estate items for sale. The results page include a map of the items found based on Google Maps. The results can also be read as RSS-feeds. 

tags: microcontent; service; trulia; type; location;

Wazima

This service is a new variant on bookmarks. The idea is that bookmarks stored in this service point to deals on the web. It should be like a directory of products and deals. The user can create and upload bookmarks and users can search bookmarks based on tags.

tags: microcontent; type; bookmarks; service; wazima;

Rollyo

This service allows a user to create search rolls. A search roll is a set of websites created by a user, which can be searched. Users can also access search rolls of other users. It is a service which re-uses Yahoo! Search. Rollyo limites the search realm of a free search and allows users to define this realm. Unfortunately the realm is limited to the top-level of an URL.

You can think of this services as reusing the bookmarks you gathered in a folder around certain subject. Rollyo allows you to search the web-sites in your bookmark folder.

tags: service; search;

Tagalag

This service allows users to tag email-addresses. A user can also create an account with a profile and tag himself. This makes it a publishing service with an email address as communality. You can serach for other users, but can only add tags, when you know their email-address.

From a MicroContent point of view the format is simple: just an email address and tags. Although a registered user can extend his profile with other elements. It has a social dimension as othe rusers can publish new email-addresses and tag it.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, as shown above;
• Data Outside - NO;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - NO, did not see any;
• Web API’s - YES, data can be re-used
• Desktop Integration - NO;
• Single Identity - YES, it supports TypeKey identities;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• Wild Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent; type; personalprofile; service; tagalag;

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;

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;

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;