You may have noticed a search box on the right hand side of this blog. Two things resulted in this. Firstly, Sundar Kadayam, the former CTO of BuzzMetrics, was curious why I didn't have a search box for my blog. I hadn't actually thought of it, but realised how useful it might be - even just for me. Secondly, I met Leslie Osborne and Tara Anderson recently at Defrag. They were demoing the Lijit.com product.
Lijit is not just a search box, however. In addition to providing me with stats regarding visitors and searches, it also gives visibility to my connections across a number of social services. Hitting the explore button below the search box overlays the below graphical description of relationships mined from the sites that I've entered in the configuration. I've not fully grok'd all the features that Lijit provides, but I does appear to be both fun and useful. (Note that I haven't turned on anything like the full compliment of Lijit features - check out Tara and Leslie's blogs for more stuff).
Cool, but how do you close it once it's been opened?
Posted by: William Cohen | November 17, 2007 at 12:53 PM
William,
There is a close button in the top right hand corner. If you missed it, the Lijit people should probably improve on discoverability.
Posted by: Matthew Hurst | November 18, 2007 at 01:18 PM
I didn't notice that you had no search box. But it's great that you have one now,, Makes your site look lijitimate. heheh.
Posted by: djahna | November 23, 2007 at 09:07 PM