Tagaroo
When writing blog posts- and in other experiments in semantic search I use services that analysis text for me and returns additional content. Services like Zemanta and Open Calais. Both services offer about the same features. Zemanta has got more markup and article features then Open Calais though. Both have auto tagging and images. So when writing your blogpost you don’ t have to hunt down the Internet for images to add- Open Calais (Tagaroo) and Zemanta do that for you.
Now, I reviewed Zemanta before. I am reviewing Tagaroo now. And although I got my hopes up for a souped up version of Zemanta it was abit of a let down. Do not get me wrong, the open calais platform is awesome- but for blogging Tagaroo does not really cut it.
It sure has a prettier interface, but that is about it. It only suggests images and tags, and although it presents pretty relevant images- it does only give a couple of tag suggestions.
All and all I was pretty underwhelmed by the tool. When it comes to semantics platform- Reuters and Open Calais got that covered, but as for a blogging tool. Go for the Zemanta offering. It is clearly better…
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Marco:
Tom Tague from Calais here.
Thanks for taking note of Calais - and giving your honest opinion of how it’s working for you.
Tagaroo is very much our first pass at delivering blogging tools. We’re in the midst of developing our next release and I think you’ll see some significant improvements in functionality. And then we’ll do it again, and again, and …
Give us a try after the next release - we’ll be looking forward to your feedback.