RSS, Widget, Button, in RC 3
July 10, 2007
Lately, we have been ironing out some bugs, mainly with the CoReap sidebar app. We didn’t quite plan on releasing any new features till we come out with a stable release, but due to popular demand we have released a new Tools module for CoReap users.
With the Tools module, you can publish & share a RSS feed of your recent public bookmarks, or paste a widget on your blog or web site that shows your recent public bookmarks, or add a button on your blog posts or articles web pages to allow your visitors to quickly bookmark the web page with CoReap. You can even mix your main blog RSS feed and your CoReap bookmarks RSS feed into one RSS feed with services like RSS Mix or FeedBlendr.
You can access these RSS/Widget/Button tools from the “Bookmarks” section of your CoReap sidebar. Once you add a few bookmarks, a link to the Tools module will be visible at the bottom of the page (next to the Import Bookmarks link).
If you face any problems, you can send us a quick message.
CoReap Update 1.0 RC 2
July 6, 2007
We’ve fixed a number of minor bugs and cosmetic features in the updated release (1.0 RC 2).
Did you know? CoReap is not only an online (social) bookmarking tool, but the CoReap extension also integrates with web search engines like Google and Yahoo, to provide relevant & recommended results (from your CoReap social search network) for your web search queries on the same (Google or Yahoo search) results page! So you get to see: matching web search results, your relevant bookmarks, and relevant bookmarks of your friends, all on the same search results page.
We are also considering a meta-search feature which will enable you to preview relevant results from other popular social bookmarking sites.
“Social Search, Made Easy”
500 users in 3 days
July 5, 2007
CoReap now has 500+ registered users in just 3 days since its public release!
It looks like we had a decent enough launch. Although we only sent out some invitations to a few friends and associates, but it seems the fire caught on. I would like to thank everyone who worked on making CoReap better, users who showed interest in this social application, and also people who dropped their suggestions to us for making CoReap better.
And while I’m on it, I should mention that we got our first formal review, from Kristen Nicole who wrote about CoReap at Mashable.com (social networking news):
This downloadable application lets you search for websites, add them to your bookmarks, filter by tag words, and invite and manage your friends from within the browser. Searching with Google or Yahoo will now give you the affiliated coReap social search results on the same page. ….. Nevertheless, the added integration of coReap with your existing search function is a less intrusive way to incorporate the social aspects of bookmarking with your regular web search. This is a key differentiating factor for coReap’s service and makes it more usable.
This has to be the first of many more to come.
Happy CoReap’ing!
CoReap extension for IE, out now
July 5, 2007
I’m glad that we could roll out a CoReap addon for Internet Explorer sooner that later, specially with the recent public release. The CoReap extension for Firefox was already available, but statistics say that IE users still dominate the online space. So it made sense to package one for IE as well, and keep all our users happy!
The only cavet with the IE extension is that it does not yet support social search integration – CoReap’s most powerful feature. However, it includes all other bookmarking features of CoReap. For best utilization of the CoReap service we highly recommend the use of the Firefox extension instead, which has full support for social search integration.
The CoReap extension/addon for IE is a Windows executable which will install the required IE toolbar buttons and sidebar panel. The CoReap extension is completely safe to install, and it brings all the features of CoReap right into your web browser. The IE addon will only work on IE 6 and IE 7. If you face any problems, you can send us a quick message.
