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Site Review: Delver Delivers

by Colleen on July 26th, 2008

I haven’t been this excited about a new social site in ages, but I’m really interested to see what happens with Delver.

I’ve been wondering if search was going to start trending this way – a way to be able to search your friends and their feeds, intelligently – for a while now, and it’s starting to percolate.

Information overload and social networking fatigue are big topics these days – and everyone is feeling it. The more friends you add, the more friends they add, the more that firehose of information opens up.

AideRSS is working on helping quiet the noise, but that’s more dependent on what the community overall thinks. What if that’s not what you find interesting or want to read about? That becomes a problem, and quickly.

Basically, what Delver does is pull content from your social graph to find just the information you’re looking for from the people you admire and/or trust. Overall, by using your friends information and their social graphs, it makes finding information and content a way more personal experience.

All of the big networks like Facebook, Google, and MySpace are fighting for control of your social graph, but while they’re duking it out in the ring, services like Delver offer a simple workaround to tap into the power of your social network.

Delver is still in it’s early stages, so I’m planning on keeping an eye on it to see where this new search format goes.

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