Stealing Scoble's Brain

To try out a couple of things, I made a widget called Search Scoble's Brain. You can see it in the right hand column of this blog.
This is a widget made with code from Google's new Co-op Search. Using Co-op search you can make your own search site, defining only those sites you want to use. You can enter sites manually, and I made a Widget Search site like this. But you can also import an OPML file to define what sites to search. So I decided to steal the legendary Robert Scoble's OPML file, from his Bloglines' Blogroll, and use that to create a unique Robert Scoble search site. The Co-op search site gives me the code for this search. I made the image myself! Bundled all this together and hey presto, I can 'search Scoble's brain'. Or something like it.
Seriously, you can now search on all the sites that Robert Scoble thinks are interesting.
And you can take this widget and put it on your own site, manually or using Snipperoo. Or make your own. Here's the code:

<div align="center"><img src="http://snipperoo.com/images/icons/scoblesbrain3.gif" width="150" height="182" alt="Scoble's Brain" />
</div> 
  <!-- Google CSE Search Box Begins -->

<form id="searchbox_005716045753694707681:b3k2zpnugws" action="http://snipperoo.com/scoblesbrain.html">
  <div align="center">
    <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="005716045753694707681:b3k2zpnugws" />
    <input name="q" type="text" size="15" />
    <br />
    <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
    <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9" />
  </div>
</form>
<div align="center">
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_005716045753694707681%3Ab3k2zpnugws"></script>
  <!-- Google CSE Search Box Ends -->
<br>

Comments

[Ric]

Is this a bit like "Being John Malkovich"?

[pg]

Sweet; although the term "Scoble's Brain" is a bit sensationalistic. Unfortunately, on the Co-op search pages. there is nowhere I can see how to search the feeds and sites in an OPML file; do you just trim the OPML file you export to the hard disk and paste in all the (hundreds of) URLs?

[Manoj Ranaweera]

Ok, Ivan. I checked in Scoble's brain and had following results for "ebdex".

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Did you mean: bedee

Google search results customized by
Robert Scoble's Brain using Google Co-op
VentureBeat » When is the best time to raise venture capital?ebdex is now 22nd months old. We recently made ebdex Document Exchange commercially available. Our key challenges are getting those vital early customers, ...
venturebeat.com/?p=1837 - Similar pages

Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog : WeblogToday I run ebdex. A start-up with a big dream (nothing new there!). We decided to use Sun as our core platform to give the scalability, reliability and ...
blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/explaining_our_share_gains - Similar pages

Top Ten Underserved Web 2.0 MarketsAlso ebdex - document exchange (just getting going). Posted by: Dennis Howlett | May 24, 2006 07:50 AM. # 7. If I only could make the time to put some of ...
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_ten_underse.php - Similar pages

How to shoot a bullet through your startup - Signal vs. Noise (by ...Have a look at http://www.ebdex.co.uk. We have invested far less than the figures discussed in here, and seeks VC funding to take the company to next stage. ...
www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/how_to_shoot_a_bullet_through_your_startup.php - Similar pages

Read/WriteWeb: Top Ten Underserved Web 2.0 MarketsAlso ebdex - document exchange (just getting going). http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/000832.php#002976 May 24, 2006 07:50 AM If I only could ...
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/000832.xml - Similar pages

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So, I suppose, according to you, Scoble has visited above sites, and either I or someone else also visited these and talked about ebdex...

Pretty cool. So this way I can track what bolgs each person reads...

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I only know basic html (don't even own a book)...so searchbox_005716045753694707681:b3k2zpnugws is this somehow unique to Scoble? So, if I am to search (for example) what Ajaz Ahmed reads, how do I find the relevant code?

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