In July, I was part of the Talkdigger beta preview, and I left my observations on this post. Fred the founder (who wears all the hats in this solo project) of Talkdigger, just let me know that his features have released. I’ve been using Talkdigger for a while, and have encouraged others, like Thomas Hawk to use it as it aggregates many of the blog indexers. (Does that make sense? An Index Aggregator?) He’s pumped up the latest to measure ‘conversations’. Some of the key features according to Fred are:

“Find Web Conversations and discover interesting stuff
- Find web sites linking to another web site.
- See the relationship between conversations of the Web.
- Browse the Web by browsing its conversations.
- Discover interesting stuff by browsing effortlessly between
conversations.

Follow Conversations emerging around your favorite web site
- Get noticed when people say something new about a web site.
- Follow what people say about your blog, web page, etc.

Join Conversations
- Join conversations by adding your comment to the conversation.

Get in contact with new people
- Find people with same interests and get in contact with them.
- Extend your social network. “

Fred’s been working hard, I noticed he’s added the query in the URL (one of my suggestions), this one is tracking the Lunch 2.0 event that we’re hosting at Hitachi Data Systems next week. The “Related Conversations” feature seems to show incoming and outgoing links. Looks like he added a few other indexes that are being searched.

Reasons to use Talkdigger: Tune in to the Conversation

• Quickly find out who’s talking about a URL (and now a conversation).
• Quickly see incoming and outgoing links.
• Compare and contrast results from multiple indexers (notice how each indexer serves different content)
• Quickly see page rank of inbound linkers.
• Great for Marketers that want to track URLs to focus/micro sites.
• Great for seeing who’s linking to a specific document, or image, such as Flickr photos.

Nice job Fred, “Salutations”.