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22Jul

Nsyght Beta2 - Yahoo BOSS aka the algorithm goes social

Today we’ve launched our second beta, while the changes may not be readily visible to the naked eye, they represent the biggest single upgrade since our original Alpha launch last Fall.

The biggest and most fundamental change is our integration with Yahoo’s BOSS (not to be confused with THE Boss). What does this mean to you? Quite a lot actually. What we have strived to achieve since day one was to allow users to see a customized search experience based on their social graph. While we achieved that, the size of our index was puny, really really puny. In order to really drive home the value and the power of your social graph, we needed a much larger index. Sadly, as we are bootstrapped, there was no way we could compete on that scale without significant funding.

Enter Yahoo BOSS. It’s a great relationship, they do the hard graft by indexing the web, we can then lounge around and use your “social algorithm” to deliver what we’ve promised, a truly organic and ever-evolving search service based on YOU. Keep checking back as we evolve and improve our integration with this fantastic service.

But that’s not all we’ve built into this release! Here is an expanded list of features and functions that we’ve been working hard to deliver:

1. Badges, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges! Ok, kidding aside, now you can export and mashup data from a variety of pages and features. We currrently support RSS, JSON, and raw HTML. Feel free to show your support on your blog or website.

2. Cleaner display of updates. Not content to show you just bookmark updates from across our little part of the social-verse, we now can show new friendships you make on our site, or any other site we integrate with!

3. After much prodding from Tantek Çelik, we *finally* have stripped away the requirement to supply a password to hook into other services. We had a good reason, but the functionality we gained wasn’t worth the uncertainty we introduced.

Plus the usual assortment of bug fixes and UI tweaks. As always, we appreciate your support and feel free to comment on what you like and don’t like.

Nsyght Beta2 - Yahoo BOSS aka the algorithm goes social

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