Feature update

Some small things were fixed today:

• You can now change your password on the settings page. Just type settings and hit enter to access that page.


• The input box on Ambedo's frontpage has been changed to prevent browser auto-complete. Thanks Martin!

A lot of people have provided great feedback the past weekend. Thanks to all of you and if you have anymore suggestions just let me know. I'll do my best to implement as much as I can.

Stealth start-ups

Mark Fletcher wrote about Stealth start-ups awhile ago and I agree with it entirely. The release of Yubnub, Ambedo, and now the Google command line shows exactly that many people work on similar ideas at the same time and it is just a matter who releases first. Neither site works perfectly does a bit different things, and probably get a lot of good feedback. Those of you who have read backwards in this blog know that Ambedo has been up and running quite some time before letting anyone else on the site. I've been using Ambedo as my start page for many months. I have the same experience with the last site I launched, Luftgrop.com, a Swedish travel comparison site. At that time the idea was new and Qixo and FareChase launched almost at the same time.

Wrong description of Ambedo?

Tim Yang thinks Ambedo has the wrong description. Perhaps that is true, Ambedo does not use tags the way del.icio.us does but is that the only correct way to do tags? I prefer to call it search engine tagger to "command line for the web" that Yubnub does. However I do think that search engine tagger is a bit limiting - you can do much more with Ambedo than just tag search engines. I have tagged login pages so I don't have to enter login and password everytime I want to login on a site. Ambedo just makes things easier...

Latest tags listing

Also added a simple page to list the latest tags added to the directory. You can also access it by typing latest. Guess I should create an RSS feed of this.

Added some stats

Added a page with statistics to Ambedo. You can type stats or click the stats link in the footer. So far only number of members, tags, tags in directory, and number of searches the past day. Will include more later on. Let me know what kind of stats you'd want...

Rico - An Ajax toolkit

Found a nice Ajax toolkit (which I've been looking for some time) called Rico released by Sabre. Haven't tried it so far but the demos and code samples like nice. Will have to play with it sometime and see what it can do. An initial look at the code however shows that it is around 60k which is still too much for many users. A plugin or split file approach like we've done with overLIB would be nice.

Link through Gary Potter at Sabre.

Directory fix

I fixed the directory to correctly display if a tag is a plain bookmark or a search engine that takes parameters.

Password recovery

Also add the little feature to have a new password sent to you when you've lost your old one. Probably should write some code to actually change your password as well.

Directory and more...

Finally came around and wrote the code required for the directory functionality of Ambedo. You can now share your tags (type settings and you can turn this off) with other people in the directory (type directory to browse or type search with a query). There you can also import other people's tags into your own "namespace" from the directory.

Yubnub

Found a site similar to Ambedo this weekend. YubNub calls itself a social command line for the web. Glad to find other sites similar to Ambedo. That probably shows that the idea isn't all bad...