TagsAhoy! is a new service that searches your tags across multiple online services. At this time it searches for tags in del.icio.us, Flickr, Gmail, Squirl, LibraryThing and Connotea. (I’m not familiar with that last one.) All you need to do is sign up for a free account and then point it to your accounts on the other services. The service works as described and they claim that more searches will be added shortly. (I’d like to see it search YouTube and SlideShare for example.) This photo shows my search results for the tag “wiki”. I can say that I’m impressed with the service. It’s nice to be able to search for items I’ve tagged without having to go to multiple sites to do it. (I’m planning on writing an OpenSearch plugin for it but sites that you have to log into, don’t always work as well as I’d like.)
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Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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