Meet Quimly!

Today we had fun building Quimly, a little prototype in the field of ‘Social Searching‘. Inspired by the way Robert Scoble uses FriendFeed and Twitter to share his favorite sites and blogposts. We both use FriendFeed and Twitter, but experienced that there are two ‘islands of information’. Want to know more on ‘Ruby on Rails’? You need to go to two places, FriendFeed search and Twitter Search.

Quimly bridges the gap between the two by integrating the search results. When searching for ‘Ruby on Rails‘ on Quimly you will find both results from Twitter and FriendFeed. Sorted by timestamp, which mixes everything in the search results. My search for ‘Ruby on Rails’ resulted in this:

So we haven’t got any straight plans with the prototype at the moment. We can think of some nice features. For now we’ll leave it to a simpel search engine for both networks. Maybe we’ll add more networks, or start implementing new features.

As some of you might know, we love feedback on our projects. If you have feature requests, feedback or other comments. Please let us know!