Improving links and tags with Kaalga and Tagaroo
I have a couple of interesting tools for you to use to improve links and tags with when composing your next blog post!
The first one is from Tagaroo, which uses the (Reuters) Calais API to determine tags that match the content of your posting. Like Akismet, you need to sign up to use the Calais API. It’s worth it, though. Tagaroo is a huge time saver when it comes to the discovery of relevant tags.
Next, we have Kaalga, which does for relevant links what Tagaroo does for Tags. It matches links to post content and then lets you add them. Kaalga doesn’t require you to have an API key, though, which is nice. It’s buttons come up in Livejournal and Wordpress forms like any good Greasemonkey hack.
Both of these remind me of the work by San Francisco company Triggit, which performs similiar automated linking (by attaching items to the document’s DOM model), without the Triggit dependency. If you apply links from Kaalga, they stay in your document. With Triggit, if they go down, you lose the links as the Javascript monkey-patching becomes no longer available.
All of the links in this post were provided by Kaalga. I kept trying to get Tagaroo to work, but they wouldn’t send me an API key. After about ten attempts to get an API key, their site finally said ‘access denied.’
Lame.
Thanks to Andraz Tori’s presentation, “Beyond Who else bought what…” for discovering these tools.
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