Your web browsing personal assistant

by Molly on 15. Apr, 2007 in Search, Tools

LeapTag is a browser tool bar add-on that wants to help you find new blogs and websites based on your interests and web browsing habits. You begin by creating tags which represent something you’d normally be interested in, such as screencasts. LeapTag will give you search results based on those tags which you can then vote on if you like or dislike them. You’re also given results for books that match your search and you can vote on those as well. The goal is to train LeapTag so eventually you’ll always get results that are perfect for you and voting won’t be necessary.

One thing I couldn’t figure out was how to share your tags with friends. It’s not something I feel is important but on the “About LeapTag” page there’s a paragraph explaining the ability to invite people to join groups and allowing members to comment on votes etc. I couldn’t find any way to do that in this screencast so if someone figures it out, please let me know! Here’s my screencast tour of LeapTag:

Flash Demo 3m38s

Found on: TechCrunch

No Responses to “Your web browsing personal assistant”

  1. Sean Tierney 15. Apr, 2007 at 1:27 pm #

    Demogirl- a thought for you: they just covered LeapTag on TechCrunch. I bet you could get more visibility for this site by doing screencasts of the sites reviewed there. you could still do other ones that you like but if people always knew they could come here after a TechCrunch article to see a demo i bet you’d pick up a fairly significant readership just from that… you’d have to be fairly quick on the draw to make the demo to get that effect happening but it’s a thought

    sean

  2. demogirl 15. Apr, 2007 at 3:34 pm #

    Hey Sean,

    Thanks for the tip. I did see the post on TechCrunch. I linked to it after my screencast. I often do make screencasts of sites that have been covered on TechCrunch but not solely for that reason. They just seem to have the inside scoop on great services and I sometimes follow up with a screencast. Sometimes I beat them to it as well :) . If you haven’t seen it yet, I have a previous blog with over 200 screencasts I did before switching everything over to Demogirl. Http://www.screeniac.com . Thanks again for the advice, every little bit helps!

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