We Just Added More Chocolately Goodness to Lijit
Over the past month or so, we have been working with several companies to better integrate their content into our results.
We recently improved the integration of Flickr and YouTube and have continued down this path, by adding six additional content sources.
Initally, most of the integrations make it easier for us to index that content, but over the next few months, we hope to bring some interesting innovations to the results themselves (see this post for a sneak peak.)
So what are the content sources? Glad you asked (in alphabetically order, and in their own words):
Disqus - “Disqus, pronounced discuss, is a service for blog comments. Disqus enables bloggers to make the conversations on their blogs more interactive and manageable. Our distributed comment system connects readers across blog communities, while empowering publishers in promoting their content.”
Intense Debate - “Intense debate is a comment replacement service for blogs. Intense Debate increases the interactivity of blog comments driving more reader engagement. In addition, Intense Debate tracks your comments, and the comments of your friends, across all blogs helping publishers be discovered.”
Mixx - “At Mixx, all of the content is user-generated, which means that we don’t have an editor who decides what you should find interesting. We figure that you can find that same-old same-old pretty much anywhere else. So instead, we make it easy for you to submit stories, photos, videos—whatever you find interesting, informative, different or fun. You can also see—and vote on—the stuff that other Mixxers submit.”
Tumblr - “To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks. You can also look at tumblelogs as slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create.” (Note: If you have a custom domain for your tumblr, enter it as a blog or URL. We are still working through some minor things.)
Viddler - “A fresh, creative web application that allows you to upload, enhance, and share digital video easily and quickly inside your web browser.”
Vimeo - “Simply put, Vimeo is the home for videos you make. You can use Vimeo to upload and share videos with anyone, watch great videos, meet new people, and explore Vimeo the way you want to.”
So, there you have it. Six new content sources. We are planning on continuing to add new sources every month or so.
Have a source you would like us to add? Please leave a comment, and we will start the process.