We put out some new features in Pressflip yesterday. We've expanded the service to be a general "persistent search" that takes advantage of metadata.
Collins, can we skip the technicals, please? What we've come up is an applications platform, so you can, for example, add the Reddit application and get Reddit.com content matched to your saved searches in Pressflip. You'll see a Reddit widget next to results that come from Reddit, like this, a result to my saved search about cars:
Collins, can we skip the technicals, please? What we've come up is an applications platform, so you can, for example, add the Reddit application and get Reddit.com content matched to your saved searches in Pressflip. You'll see a Reddit widget next to results that come from Reddit, like this, a result to my saved search about cars:
We've got more applications: Digg, Twitter, Fark, Topix, and a few others, along with the standard load of news, blogs, and magazines that we've always been indexing. There are some more in the pipe, but this is the general direction of our product.
Our thinking is that there is a ton of data out there, some of it searchable, some of it not. If we can connect silos of data to your saved searches, then we can provide a better experience than say, Google Alerts. By taking advantage of APIs provided by various services, we can provide richer and more unified results.
To illustrate this new platform better, I have come up with this awesome graphic:
As we add more content sources, we'll have a really unique saved search experience.
So, check out pressflip.com and see for yourself.
Our thinking is that there is a ton of data out there, some of it searchable, some of it not. If we can connect silos of data to your saved searches, then we can provide a better experience than say, Google Alerts. By taking advantage of APIs provided by various services, we can provide richer and more unified results.
To illustrate this new platform better, I have come up with this awesome graphic:
As we add more content sources, we'll have a really unique saved search experience.So, check out pressflip.com and see for yourself.
