23 Photo Sharing

This service allows users to manage and publish their photos (images). The user can add the necessary data to a photo, such as a tag or comments. Interestingly the servcie precooks some service queries to other providers based on tags.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, image with various fields;
• Data Outside - YES, you can integrate a blog;
• Licenses - NO, although you can set an image as private;
• Feeds Galore - YES, several feeds can be created;
• 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 - YES, it acknowledges the tag-field a a tie in to other services (photo’s, bookmarks, podcasts);
• Wild Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent; service; 23; type; image;

TracksLife

This service allows a user to create and fill tracks. Basically a track can be seen as a list of item. The user can define the fields of an item per track. Each field can be in word, number, money, boolean or paragraph format. The services uses a tabular format to display tracks and items (one row per item). The use can chose to publish a track to the internet. The user can subscribe to RSS-feeds, which remind him to update a track or to the updates for a track.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, each track has structure;
• Data Outside - NO, does not seem relevant here;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - YES, each track can be published as a feed;
• Web API’s - NO, not that I am aware of;
• Desktop Integration - YES, any RSS reader can be used;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• Wild Structure - YES, the possibility to create your own track structure is certainly wild;

tags: microcontent; type; wild; service; trackslife;

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;

Google Reader

A news-feed reader. It has a two-pane approach.

Goowy

Several hosted application services, such as email, contacts, calendar and games. Based on Flash.

Codase

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

blox0r

A news-aggregator service. The interface looks pretty good, seems like a real application

tags: microcontent; service; blox0r;

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;

Time Tracker

This service allows a user to create tasks. A task consists of a name, a category, a start and a duration. The end date/time can be determined by starting a clock. This clock can be started and stopped at will.

tags: microcontent; service; timetracker; type; event;

CiteULike

An interesting service that allows the user to bookmarks articles found on the web. When a user sees an article on a supported site, he can add the article to his personal literature list on CiteULike. The interesting thing is that information from that article, such as title, authors, journal, abstract, etc are copied as well. CiteULike extracts that information from the web-page.



The interesting thing is that the article information is extracted (an hformat anyone?) and copied. The service is really a variant of bookmarking, but with much more added information. Yet another MicroContent type.



By the way there is tagging as well and sharing of literature. Your literature list can be exported to bibtex and endnotes format, and a RSS-feed is available.

tags: microcontent; service; citeulike; type; literature;

Development @ Ning

Ning is a new service provider that offers services to other service providers. It is a provider for the providers. Ning offers a Service Development and Operations service. It offers a set of tools, such that a service provider can create a service and provision it to their customers. The development environment of Ning has a common set of functions needed far any service. For instance identification and access control functions. (there might be others, but I did not check them out yet).

Once a service has been created, it can be provisioned and hosted by the Ning service.

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;