Friday, June 10, 2005

June's Update

So I've now updated taghop and reached my June dealine.
I managed to get the IE toolbar completed and added an installer for it.

I wish we cou get plug-ins for other browsers - any help much appreciated!!

I am a little worried about performance.. i'd appreciate feedback on this and let me know where you are in the world as well please.

Few touches to add to taghop now. Don't won't to spend too much time adding features until you folks come back and tell me what's good and bad about it all.

So, the toolbar. Some very cool things now.

1. You can use the QuickBoomark options item to add the current URL to taghop without even visiting the page.

2. You can use the "Bookmark This" option to tag and comment about the URL you are adding.

3. If you tag a URL, it become your DIRECTURL. This means that you can type this tag into the toolbar box and hit enter and be taken directly to that URL. Remember RealNames? Something like that, but you control the tags :) If you type a tag you haven't added a URL for, it shows you a list of options.

4. The Shorten URL option in first dropdown allows you to get a very short generated URL for the current page. What's especially cool about this is that you don't even have to leave the page and visit another site to do it AND it'a automatically put into the clipboard ready for you to paste into emails, webpages, documents and so on. Super Cool heh?

5. Finally, the "Live Document" button goes green when taghop discovers other links that may be useful to you based on the page you are on. It pulls in information from not only taghop, but some of your favourites sites around the web. We are working on adding more to this feature to bring any web document to life!

My disclaimer is that this is still very much in beta. Loads of feedback, but as you likely know, testing can be testing. So bare with me.

Keep taghopping!

steven
founder, http://taghop.com