Got a ping from the Rollyo peeps about some new feature additions and thought I would use this as an excuse to finally post about it. My favorite new feature is the ability to put a Rollyo searchbox on your site/blog. As with handy little badges, I dig this kind of value-add for the small blog owner. However, one of the other new features brings up one of my big beefs with Rollyo — they've added the ability to import your browser bookmarks to make a Searchroll — cool for folks who still use bookmarks — but for the love of god, why can't I import OPML? My other big beef is that I can't sort my search results by date or… by anything. This makes it a lot less useful to me.

Overall, though, I dig the idea. The idea is social search, but I think the appeal is wider than that — it's a good local search tool, whereby you can specify the scope of the search to this particular subset of sites, and save that subset for future searches (oh, one more beef — 25 sites in a searchroll is way too small!!). This is exactly what glocalization is all about — giving folks the tools they need to identify and traverse some subset or "corner" of ye olde global internets, to help separate signal from noise more effectively by limiting datasets to their own domains. I had a chat with Gabe Rivera at Tagcamp about folks requesting a similar "limited domain" version of Memeorandum, where you could upload your own set of sites to monitor and have the relevance algorithms play out on your little corner of the world. At the time I was fixated on other feature requests but now I'm grokking it so hey, Gabe, I've changed my mind — I want a local, customized Memeorandum, too! ;)