Preston Gralla - November 28, 2007
"This clever Facebook blog reader learns from your likes and dislikes and then finds blogs and news based on them. You can then share those blogs with your friends who use the app, and have them share them with you."
Joel Tachau, Avenue A | Razorfish - June 2007
Analysis of Three Personalized Search Tools in Relation to Information Search: iGoogle, LeapTag, and Yahoo! MyWeb
"Three personalized search tools are pre-selected (from over 100 potential search tool for consideration during data analysis. These are: iGoogle™, LeapTag (Beta 0.82); and Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0 (Beta). An eight-step process is used in this study to guide data analysis, using the conceptual analysis strategy."
Tomio Geron - July 16, 2007
"Startup's hybrid web-desktop app lets users maintain their own data.
LeapTag is a private discovery service and brings computer generated-results based on each user's own selections. In its new release Monday, however, LeapTag does let users share by e-mailing customized tags to friends and/or publishing links as HTML to a blog."
Vincent Camara - July 12, 2007
Interview with Karen Carbonnet at Web2.0 Expo
"LeapTag, the personalized search tool, launched its public beta at the Web 2.0 Expo. It is an RSS reader with a twist: Instead of letting you easily subscribe to feeds and then showing you what's new in those feeds, you subscribe to tags and topics, and it finds items from the blogosphere that it thinks you'll like. As you tell the system how much you like the items, search results become tailored to your individual needs. [...] Additionally, LeapTag lets you vote on ads as well. The cool thing about LeapTag is that It will help you find more stories and sites to read, and it will get better for you over time. Just be prepared to put the work, and time, into it. It's worth a try..."
Marc Orchant - April 16, 2007
"A decidedly different approach to finding relevant content based on your interests.
A unique aspect that I particularly appreciate is that LeapTag does not upload any of your information to a server somewhere in the cloud. A small executable application is installed along with the browser add-in and all the data crunching is performed locally. Only the actual algorithmic result is sent to LeapTag to generate a search process – your personal data (RSS subs, del.icio.us tags, and votes) are kept on your PC. That's a very welcome approach to keeping personal data personal."
Tris Hussey – Blogworld – April 17, 1007
"LeapTag takes this process of finding information to the next level.
You create a tag … which is more like a subject or concept or company you’re interested in…then LeapTag searches the Net and blogosphere for content that it thinks matches the concept/interest. Fine, high chaff to wheat problem again, right? Yes, at first. The cool bit is that as you look at the results you vote Love it (matches) or Hate it (no match) … then via the magic of intelligent design the results get more and more refined. LeapTag looks that the concepts and content of the results that you love and hate to build a profile to just keep giving you better and better results."
Michael Arrington – TechCrunch – April 14, 2007
"I found it to be very useful for randomly discovering sites based on a descriptive tag. I bookmarked a few gaming sites and then looked at what it recommended. The results were good."
Vivek Puri – Startup Squad – April 16, 2007
"Personally I am already beginning to like the product. One of the most important feature that I have noticed in the few days I used LeapTag - results are almost free of duplicates. Trying to use Google Blog Search for a particular keyword is a very painful procedure ’cause of the high amount of duplicate or near duplicate(rephrased) content present in the search results. LeapTag takes care of this very efficiently by presenting the most relevant and original sources of information while automatically taking out the rest. And if you think LeapTag is still showing sources of information that are not relevant to your blog, you can always vote them down. Actually LeapTag extends the voting even to the CPA based ads shows in the search results so that you are shown only the relevant ad.
Compared to amount of functionality and computing resources required, LeapTag is pretty fast ’cause it runs on your localhost, instead of communicating with a remote server for each request."
John Gartner – Marketing Shift – April 16, 2007
"I've been looking for someone to allow for advertising ratings for some time."
Molly McDonald – Demo girl – April 15, 2007
LeapTag will give you search results based on those tags which you can then vote on if you like or dislike them. You’re also given results for books that match your search and you can vote on those as well. The goal is to train LeapTag so eventually you’ll always get results that are perfect for you and voting won’t be necessary.
Ron Miller – May 21, 2007
"…what's interesting about LeapTag's approach is that user's can approve or disapprove each ad, enabling LeapTag to deliver ads specifically geared toward your own particular requirements and interests."
Dan Morrill - IT toolbox - April 23, 2007
I would check out their software, as the beta testing is being done right, and they really care what the users are doing with their software and what it is doing with the end client. Since it is one of the few hybrid desktop/web applications, security people in any environment should be getting familiar with this kind of software. Getting to learn about the hybrid web 2.0 applications now and beta testing them to learn how they work is invaluable. Since it is an open beta, its worth taking this software out for a test drive.
In my mind, and with what responses they gave out, LeapTag beta testing is being done very right, and it is a company worth following in this kind of application space.
Kristen Nicole – thePersonalbee – April 15, 2007
LeapTag is introducing a browser-based application that will deliver search results in a more direct and private manner. Additionally, LeapTag lets you vote on ads as well. This interactive market research could prove useful to both users and advertisers. Having LeapTag right in your browser makes it a continually, ever-present search tool that could become a personal aide for the coming shift with niche search engines.