Just released: NTugo Search.

Partly built to search through the entire NTugo Network, the search engine is a “mashup search” that works well for everyday searching as well. Not just an ordinary search engine, it shows thumbnails of the pages alongside their entries in the results, as well as some extra results off to the side (news, videos, and books, at present).

From 3:45 to 5:00 EST today, we did some maintenance on NTugo. We’re now on PHP5!

The changes have increased performance, helping you get faster loading times, and have made things a little more secure.

If you notice any bugs (which may have been caused due to the switch), please leave a comment.

Nowadays, more and more applications are moving online in the form of “web apps.” You may use Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word, GMail or Yahoo Mail instead of a desktop client, or MyNT instead of FeedReader.

Really, you need a way to organize web apps, and other sites you use frequently, into a central place where you can easily jump to the sites/apps you need. That’s what the NTugo Webtop is for.

Just make the webtop your home page and you have easy access to your web apps, and other sites. Like with MyNT, your webtop has a special URL (http://www.ntugo.com/webtop/you.html) for instant access without logging in. (more…)

The InfiniTech blog has a new design now. Instead of a traditional blog design, we’ve set up a more magazine-like system.

There are now normal posts and Features. The most recent feature is, well, featured up near the top (and the headlines of older features are shown in a box below). Previews of the most recent normal posts are shown below the feature, along with a new innovation…the SpeedLinker.

Undoubtedly you’ve seen SpeedLinking posts (Examples: BlogBuzz and Speedlinking). Basically it’s a post rounding-up interesting links. Well, I came up with something even cooler. Instead of posting a speedlinking post every week or so, InfiniTech now has a box on the main page that displays speedlinked items. The items are added as their discovered, being “live” like normal blog posts.  The blog authors can just add a new link when they see something cool on another blog.

Take a look at the new InfiniTech.

Forgot your password? No problem. We’ve now set up facilities for regaining access to your account, should such an emergency occur.

When you click the login link, you should see a “Forgot your password?” link below the login button.

You’ve probably heard of PageFlakes by now. They’re a customizable homepage like Netvibes or Google IG. The PageFlakes team has just released a new build, putting it’s feature set a step ahead of Netvibes. They’ve implemented nearly everything Netvibes offers, increased the speed, and introduced Pagecasts. Pagecasts are like the much talked about “Netvibes Universes”, only anyone can create one.

What does this have to do with NTugo? We’ve thrown together a NTugo Network Pagecast. Check it out, and add it to your PageFlakes account if you wish.

The old homepage wasn’t very informative, was it? Four HUGE buttons that linked to major parts of NTugo. Well, we thought we could do better. Take a look.

Hello, I’m Matt (NTugo’s main developer). Before I start talking about MyNT (My NTugo), I must first tell you a little about myself.

Despite being totally addicted to RSS feeds, I’ve never liked any RSS reader (be it web-based or not) other than Mozilla Firefox’s “Live Bookmarks” feature. I’d just stash my large collection of feeds in a folder marked “RSS” on the Bookmarks Toolbar. I’ve tried tons of aggregators. Feedreader, Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle, Bloglines, etc. I haven’t liked any of them that much. Sure, they’re all great…but I couldn’t use any of them on a daily basis. There was always something wrong. They just didn’t feel right. Lately, I’ve been wishing I could access my feeds on other computers (which you obviously can’t do with Live Bookmarks). I needed a web-based feed aggregator. So, I recently decided to write my own. I spent nearly three weeks planning and conceptualizing. It had to be my perfect RSS aggregator. I wasn’t about to spend a bunch of my time building something I wouldn’t want to use. That would defeat the whole purpose.

Eventually I came up with a couple of ideas. The first was being able to read your feeds without logging in (imagine how much time and irritation that would save over a year). The second was “Social Feed Reading”. Basically, I wanted to take the concept of Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, Digg (etc), and apply it to RSS feeds.

After a week and a half of actual work, I present My NTugo…or MyNT for short (say “Mint”). As of today, it’s now available to everyone.

What’s so special about MyNT? For starters, it’s a very simplistic RSS reader. I wanted to capture the simplicity of Firefox’s Live Bookmarks, and add a bit more to it (you can view item summaries, and listen/download podcast files, for one thing).

You can read your feeds at any time, without logging in, by bookmarking http://my.ntugo.com/YourNTugoID.html. Just add that to your browser’s bookmarks bar for quick access. As a side note, you can read other user’s feeds that way too…

If you want to find some new feeds, you can even search through the database to see what other NTugo users are subscribed to (and easily subscribe yourself). It’s pretty cool.

I could go on about MyNT for hours, but sadly I don’t have enough time. Go check-out My NTugo for yourselves!

So, what’s next for NTugo? Something we call “My NTugo”, or MyNT for short.

What’s My NTugo? It’s a web-based RSS feed reader with a twist…and I’ll leave it at that. Basically, we’re making an RSS reader that has some features unavailable elsewhere, and we’re making an RSS  reader that I would actually want to use. The only feed reader in existence so far that I really like is Firefox’s “Live Bookmarks” feature, and my feed collection is getting a little too big for that.

Stay tuned to this blog for updates about MyNT.

Welcome to NTugo! Today (June 3, 2007), is the day that NTugo is finally launched. Unfortunately, we had to cut/postpone some of our cooler projects to put the site online (already being past our release date). We plan on adding some newer features as soon as we can.

We have not yet finished our “Edit Profile” page, which will allow users to change their email and password. Once we fix the numerous bugs it has, we’ll put it online.

Well, NTugo is here. Enjoy the blogs!