McNaught What You Think Weblog

Sunday, December 28, 2003

Audblog Aggregator
An Audblog is an audio recording made by someone over the phone and posted to their Web site - an audio journal.

This experment will generate a playlist from the most recent audblog posts around the world. Why? Because otherwise, you have listen to the posts from each person individually. There is no way to take a cross section of recent postings from different people and listen to them continuously.

To listen, open this playlist with windows media player. Warning, the contents may be unsuitable for general audiences.

Here is a list of what you are listening to.

There is also a playlist for Winamp as well. Save the file to your computer as "output.b4s" and then open it.

Click hereto generate a new playlist.

The audio files are found using the Tecnorati blog search engine.

Saturday, December 27, 2003

Lookmarks
I had an idea a while back and have put together a basic prototype. I wanted to be able to bookmark things based on the search phrase and aggregate the book marks from several users. So, what I've come up with is "Lookmarks". I've tried to do it so it is just as easy as using Google and creating a bookmark.

Problem:

* Don't use bookmarks because have too many
* Often search for the same thing, and have to page through Google results to find the one page I'm looking for
* Would like some way to rank search results based on what my friends are finding

Solution:

* Personalized search engine
* Bookmark based on search phrase
* Share bookmarks

*** 6 April 2005 - Replaced link to prototype with the newly launched site:

http://www.lookmarks.com