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YackTrack shows you all the places people are commenting
YackTrack is just getting started, so new features are rolling out quickly. There's already a bookmarklet you can use to avoid unnecessary copying and pasting, and a FeedFlare you can use to track a given URL. On top of that, YackTrack features a "chatter" search, so you can see what people around the web are saying about any given search term. I tested it out with my name, and it looks like a fantastic ego-surfing tool. It's probably even more useful if you're in customer relations and want to track what people are saying about your product and service. You can even subscribe to the search results as an RSS feed.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Adam R. Sweet said 2:29PM on 1-04-2009
Except it doesn't work.
I tried it on about a dozen websites that I know get high traffic
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Rob Diana said 2:45PM on 1-04-2009
Adam
What websites were you trying? It is targeted at the major blog platforms, and generally works for many blogs. If there are specific issues, you can email info AT yacktrack DOT com as well.
Adam R. Sweet said 2:56PM on 1-04-2009
"t is targeted at the major blog platforms, and generally works for many blogs"
Ah, well that wasn't clear in the article. I tried it on major discussion forums in the music world
So it doesnt' work on discussion forums
techandlife said 2:40PM on 1-04-2009
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techandlife said 2:43PM on 1-04-2009
I think you have to enter the full link to the post with the comments, i.e. the permalink, not the general URL of the site. The chatter tab seems to work fine
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Ryan T Adams said 8:55PM on 1-04-2009
Anyone know if you can get all results from a site, instead of just from a single blog post on a site? I know you can with Google BlogSearch.
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