Collecta Real Time Search
June 20, 2009
Scoopler, OneRiot, ITPints, and others in the real time search space have more competition. I received information directly from a PR firm, but the message pitched OneRiot, using Collecta in the subject line to grab my attention. Sigh. I checked out Collecta, and it seems to use XMPP, a protocol enlisted by the Google for its Wave demo. (Anthony Ha’s “Collecta Says It’s the Fastest Contender in the Real-Time Search Race” for Venture Beat is a useful overview.) The system asserts that it indexes Web sites along with Twitter and RSS feeds. You can set up a “river” of hits on a topic which I found useful. Worth taking a closer look.
Stephen Arnold, June 20, 2009