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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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