Pete Cashmore over at Mashable! just posted a review on Searchles. Thanks Pete! But Pete didn’t install the widget so you’re probably wondering more about how it works.
If you’re not registered at Searchles, you can still use the widget to view related content by scrolling your mouse over the tags below. It’s a pretty cool feature. You can also view all the other content within the widget.
But if you want to bookmark, tag, comment or share the link with your friends, you do need to register at Searchles. This is standard with all social bookmarking services – del.icio.us and digg included – it prevents spam – and is standard on most comment forms on other websites for the same reasons. But we’ll definitely look at ways to bring registration into the widget for the next version.
Our goal with this widget was to do exactly what Pete suggested – help bloggers and other online media keep your audiences on your websites. We think that’s where they belong. When the widget is installed on your website, when your audience scrolls over the tags, they will see related content biased to your website – stuff they may not have found otherwise.
Feel free to leave ideas and suggestions for how we can improve either here or at Mashable. Thanks again Pete for the mention!
Friday, January 19, 2007
Welcome Mashable! Readers
