Yolink from TigerLogic
December 16, 2010
TigerLogic offers a number of data and content solutions. The company (originally named Blyth Holdings, then Omnis Technology, and then Raining Data) uses proprietary methods to normalize data. The company refers to its method as Pick Universal Data Model (Pick UDM). The Pick UDM is a component across the XDMS and MDMS product lines. The approach looks similar to those used by other XML-centric transformation and access methods.
The company’s newest product is a Facebook user’s solution to the problem of aggregating FB content in one display. PostPost, a real-time Facebook newspaper, described this way on the TigerLogic Web site:
PostPost enables users to quickly skim relevant passages of text shared by their Facebook friends and sort shared content by type. To access PostPost, users simply login using Facebook Connect, and in a matter of seconds, all shared links, pictures, videos, articles from their Facebook friends will populate the front page of their personal paper.
You can see a video and obtain more information at www.postpost.com.
We learned about the firm’s Yolink product this summer. Yolink extracts information from behind links and inside documents. On the Yolink Web site, you can see examples of outputs from the system. The content sources includes Craigslist, Google Patent Search, and Wikipedia.
Wikipedia included this comment sourced from CNet.com:
Yolink searches within the pages of your engine’s results to find your search terms in context. Go beyond the links. Search Web pages and discover information conventional search tools may have never revealed. In addition to mining content on a webpage, yolink will mine all of the links on that page for information relevant to your search. Yolink highlights information in the context of its original Web page and on the right side of your browser. Eliminating the need to bounce between multiple windows. Share your findings effortlessly by clicking on the save and share link. An email message containing your valuable information and the original Web page address is instantly created and ready to send, or save in folders for future use. Go beyond conventional search and find commands. Yolink allows you to search lengthy reference manuals, PDFs, legal documents, contracts, and news sites quickly and effortlessly. Yolink is especially helpful with a multi-word search, because it can extract all of the relevant content surrounding any of your search terms and display it all at once.”
Yolink is a unit of TigerLogic. The company develops software and solutions for creating and improving software applications. In addition to Yolink, the company offers XML Data Management Servers (XDMS), Multidimensional Database Management Systems (MDMS) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) software tools.
We think that the emergence of Facebook centric content aggregation tools is an interesting development. Search without navigating to a FB page is part of the “search without search” shift some vendors are advocating.
Stephen E Arnold, December 16, 2010
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