Climb to the Stars - Latest Comments in Lijit Feedback

Re: Lijit Feedback

Stan James — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:17:50 -0000

Hi Stephanie, thanks for the detailed account of your experience at Lijit. Lijit began as my master's thesis in Germany (not too far from you!) so I'm always glad to see how people use it. Let me take a stab at your questions.

"how about my Twitter network?" - I want it too! Twitter has a fantastic open API so we'll be adding this soon.

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Importing a blogroll from a second blog is a good idea. (Right now you can expand the network by using the button at the bottom of the network page, but you'd have to add each blog separately.)

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The Facebook network actually works exactly as you said you wish it did: We don't search any content in Facebook, as their API explicitly prohibits this. But we will search any external blogs/bookmarks/etc of any friends that you have in Facebook.

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On Google Reader: Yes!!! I want this too. I don't know why Google doesn't allow their users to share the blogs they read. Lot's of other users have asked for this too. E.g. see my post in the newsgroup. http://groups.google.com/group/google-reader-pa...>
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I agree that we take up more space than we need too. Let me talk to some people about that.

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Magnolia is in your results because someone clicked on a search result that came from your Magnolia account.

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Sorry the pie graphs are confusing! You're not the first person to say that. I think we'll combine them. The idea is to show where content is coming from that shows up in results from your search engine: your blog, your bookmarks, your twitter, etc...

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Please let me know of any other ideas you have, and what your experience is like over the next weeks. Again, thanks for the detailed post!

Re: Lijit Feedback

Carsten Pötter — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:19:13 -0000

Oops, you're right. I probably read your post too quickly last night. Sorry! So I agree, it would be cool if there were more options to add stuff to My Network.

Re: Lijit Feedback

Stephanie — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:18:27 -0000

I can add stuff to My Content, but I was talking about My Network. If you check out my account, you'll see there's a whole lot of stuff I've added to My Content. My Network, on the other hand, only lets you add individual links or publicly available OPML feeds (and figuring out if and how Google Reader provides that is "too much work" from a usability perspective).

I want the surprise me feature. The resize is only for the horizontal size IIRC -- what bothers me is the vertical space it takes.

Ma.gnolia shows up in the My Content pie chart -- so that's my account, not somebody else's.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, though ;-)

Re: Lijit Feedback

Carsten Pötter — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:42:09 -0000

You should be able to add a lot more networks than del.icio.us and MyBlogLog. Go to My Content where you can also add your Twitter account name, any RSS feed (e.g. your second blog). I think it's not possible to import your Google Reader list by tags but you can import the OPML of it (maybe edit it manually in a text editor, not very comfortable, though). You can also change the widget by going to My Search Wijit; you can rid of the Surprise Me feature, resize the widget,... I still haven't figured out the stats page myself. I guess that someone from your network has a Ma.gnolia account.

Anyway, I hope this helps a little bit.