Lijit searches, BricaBox launches

I'm back from Blog World Expo 2007, and ready to present all of my notes and thoughts about the event to you in a coherent manner.

Hahahahahahaha! Oh, me. No, actually I returned to work to find several meeting requests in my inbox for writing projects that are kicking off this week. My wife and I are visiting her family for Thanksgiving next week (seven miles north of the California wildfires!) so I need to buckle down and get those done. So instead, you'll be treated to random thoughts and recollections as they occur to me.

Lijit
One of the highlights of the trip was getting to meet Tara Anderson of Lijit in person. She and I exchanged e-mails last year when I first checked out the service and had some problems with it. She urged me to give it another go, and I'm happy to report that everything went smoothly: I can customize my profile easily and the Lijit Wijit now works on the script-hostile WordPress.com platform.

Blog World Expo: Tara Anderson of Lijit

Lijit is a customizable personal search engine that searches your content across the Web. When you register at Lijit, you tell the service which content on the Web is yours: your Twitter feed, your WordPress blog, your LinkedIn account...I get the impression that anything with an RSS feed can be mined. You can also identify people you talk to and read on the Web. Then Lijit creates a search engine that draws upon those sources. So for example, you can use Guy Kawasaki's search engine to find all references he's made to Tom Cruise. I don't know why you would, but at least one user felt the need to do so.

BricaBox
Later in the show I wandered into the break room and found Nate Westheimer giving Jeremiah Owyang a demo of BricaBox. BricaBox revitalizes the concept of the wiki with rich media and community features such as tagging and comments. You build your BricaBox site by adding elements to it the way you'd make a house out of building-blocks (hence the name). Neat stuff! The site had a soft launch at Blog World Expo; Nate officially announced it today. You can log in and access existing BricaBoxes, but for now you'll have to wait to create your own without going through the dev team.

Tags: Lijit, BricaBox

Published 14 Nov 2007 by Wade Rockett
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Comments

 

Tara Anderson said:

Wade, thanks for the kind words. It was a pleasure meeting you in Vegas and I'm glad we were able to sort out your wijit issues. I'm also very glad that you chose this pic of me to use rather than the one of me from the Pajama party! Let me know if you have other questions or need further assistance with anything.
November 14, 2007 21:13
 

Nate Westheimer said:

Hey Wade, it was nice to meet you, if only briefly. Thanks for doing a write-up on us. Let me know if you sign-up and would like access to create a BricaBox site.

Best,
Nate
{my first name}@bricabox.com
November 15, 2007 02:26
 

Jeremiah Owyang said:

Wade, it was great meeting up with you!
November 15, 2007 07:32
 

Wade Rockett said:

@Tara: Aw, the pajama photo was great! Remember, pajamas are just comfy clothes with cowboys on them.

@Nate: Nice to meet you too! I may take you up on that.

@Jeremiah: A pleasure as always. I hope we run into each other at SXSWi.
December 10, 2007 18:28
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