Agglom.com adds URL slideshows, RSS and easy link suggestion

Just a few days after the Beta 3.0 release, we have just released a new Agglom version (Beta 3.1).

Some new features:

• Suggest a link: anyone can suggest new links on any organized web session. Every new suggested link goes into an approval queue and the owner may decide to integrate it or to delete it. By default, the owner receives an email notification every time a user suggests a new link on one of her/his saved Web searchers. This notification service can be turned off in the privacy options.
  

  Suggest a link feature

• Web slideshows: for every organized web session, Agglom automatically creates a slideshow consisting of the pages stored in the session. Slideshows have a URL of their own: One example is http://www.agglom.com/webslideshow/49/Firefox_3. Slideshow URLs are listed at the top of each session’s page.
  

  Web Slideshow sample

• User RSS feeds: every Agglom user profile page now has a public RSS feed that lists the sessions stored for that user. Here is one example: http://www.agglom.com/userFeeds/vctr
  
  

  User's RSS feed

• Quick Add-A-Link feature: the owner can just jump to the bottom of an organized web session to add a new link, without browsing the “modify Web search” page

… some minor improvements:

• Select All / Deselect All links in the Agglomerator landing-page to select / deselect all the links

…and some fixes on the Firefox extension, on user avatars, on the comments feature and on other minor parts.

We would like to thank Marjoilein Hoekstra (http://cleverclogs.org/), one of our users who played a very important role in this release. Marjolein brain-stormed with us on how to improve Agglom. In fact, the web slideshow feature sprouted from her mind, as well as user RSS feeds and most of the other new features and improvements in this release. Thanks!

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Ready, Fire, Aim – Agglom Beta 3.0 released

Would better say: “Ready, Fire, Aim, Aim, Aim, Aim“.

This is our strategy. We came out a little more than 1 month ago with the first version, with almost all the functionalities but a very raw design.

Why didn’t we wait to get a better design for the first beta (1.0)?

Because we really looked forward to the feedback of the web users not only about the design, but mostly about the core services, the features, the technologies, …

So, we were ready for the first launch, we fired and now we are continuing to aim

The first time we aimed was when we launched the Beta 2.0, with a richer design and more features (major ones were “contact list”, “privacy options for saved Web searches”, FireFox extension “Agglomerator”).

Now we are really happy to announce the new Beta 3.0.

The major new changes / features are:

• Improved UI design and usability (see screenshot)
• New alghoritms for organizing automatically content by type based on link
• Support for automatical recognition of videos (Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, Vimeo, CollegeHumor, …), presentations (Slideshare, authorSTREAM, MyPlick), audios, files, images, …
• PicLens support
• Automatically created Slidshow for inserted image galleries
• Better UI for organizing Web search results
• Better UI for browsing Web search results
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) improvements

Screenshot

Screenshot of the new Agglom Beta 3.0 Home Page

As usual, any feedback / comment would be really appreciated

Agglom.com  – www.agglom.com

Enrico Foschi