Information Aggregator

LeapFish.com - Back From The Dead — What it doesThe LeapFish search platform is a resource that aims to let you find the best of the web in a single search. The team behind it rightly believes that quite often a search process requires a multi-dimensional approach in order to find deep information. Moreover, it is not uncommon for someone to end up looking items not only using web search tools but also by visiting major online destinations where videos and other contents are hosted. LeapFish aims to provide a solution for searching everywhere and coming up with the most relevant information possible. LeapFish’s main page comprises... [Tags: angles, best of the web, dimensional approach, glance, image information]

Last I heard about Leapfish (this was a couple of years ago), they ran a useless but fun tool that provided you with a free appraisal for your domain name based on a variety of ratings and criteria. Now they’re back with an equally useless tool, this time without the fun part. The company just revamped itself under the ownership of California-based DotNext, morphing into what they refer to as a “multi-dimensional information aggregator,” which is actually nothing more than yet another meta search engine. You know the kind: sites that pull together search results from real engines like Google,... [Tags: aggregation, flock, free appraisal, google, information aggregator]

VibeAgent, a hotel information aggregator, has closed a $3 million Series A funding round led by a number of individual investors. We originally covered VibeAgent in July 2007, when it was focused on compiling user-submitted hotel reviews with an integrated social network (we dubbed it a ‘TripAdvisor 2.0′ at the time). Since then the site has shifted gears, and is now a hotel meta search engine, offering a service similar to Kayak and a plethora of other sites. CEO Adam Healey says that the site differentiates itself from Kayak by offering a more comprehensive hotel search, combing through 140,000... [Tags: asian markets, comprehensive hotel, crunch, different travel, exhaustive search]

Data-sharing service Gnip raises $3.5 million — Gnip, a company that provides technology to help other web services quickly share information provided by users, has raised $3.5 million. The San Francisco and Boulder, CO-based company has partners like Yahoo and Plaxo. For example, when a user updates their information on a site like Digg or Twitter, that’s connected to Plaxo’s personal information aggregator service, Pulse, Plaxo uses Gnip to quickly update that information on the Pulse site. The investors in this round include previous investors Foundry Group, First Round Capital and SoftTech VC; they previously put in $1.1 million. In developer-related news, Gnip recently decided to stop... [Tags: 1 million, 5 million, boulder co, chief executive, data delivery]

One of the reasons that I really like FriendFeed is that it provides a single place to see and have conversations about updates from multiple services. The service that seems to be the most popular (based on my and other users’ statistics) in terms of updates on FriendFeed is the micro-messaging service Twitter. Now FriendFeed is turning the tables a bit, allowing users to automatically post FriendFeed entries and comments back to Twitter. A few different settings allow you to chose if you’d like to publish all the entries you post or if you’d like exclude the ones you post... [Tags: conversations, countdown, hub, information aggregator, messaging service]