Meta Search Discussion Boards and More with Klotsu (An Early Beta) from Pidgin Technologies
Meta Search Discussion Boards with Klotsu
Pidgin Technologies is online with an early beta (the service is set to launch in October at the Web 2.0 Conference).
Klostu provides members of boards (and even blogs) advanced profiles with a growing range of social tools and useful widgets. Klostu profiles appear within the boards and will move seamlessly from one board to another, wherever the user may travel on the boardscape.
Klostu provides an advanced ‘ajax desktop’ style interface to manage user profiles and social activity including finding friends, comments, instant messaging with jabber, rss reading and sharing, blogging, galleries, videos and more.
Fast Facts From the Klotsu Site:
1) Find all the message boards in one place
2) “If someone is on a message board, he is on Klostu.”
3) Have a single ID to post on many message boards
4) Blog creation and publication tools
Want to check out Klotsu? You’ll need to request a beta password by emailing Klotsu at this address.
More from Pidgin Technologies
The company is also the provider of the feature-filled BoardTracker forum discussion search engine. What’s available?
Here are a few of many impressive highlights. This is a “must have” resource for both people (general and specific) and what they are discussing:
+ Real time thread and forum tracking including daily,weekly monthly graphs. Around the time we’re posting this, nearly 50 million threads in nearly 40,000 thousand forums are being tracked.
+ Tag Cloud
+ Auto Stemming. For example, a search for word also returns word, words, wording, worded, etc).
+ Truncation with an * (A search for ca* returns cat, cats, cafe, careful, call, etc).
+ “My Threads” and “My Alerts” (registration required).
+ Limit your search to threads you select (My Threads).
+ Search by keywords, tags, authors.
+ Browse by Category.
+ Advanced search interface
+ RSS feeds for any keyword search, look for the RSS link at the bottom of the web results page.
See Also: Mapping the Boardscape (via Data Mining)
See Also: In November 2006, we posted that a new and improved BoardReader from Effyis had just been released.