The New Jiglu Widget

After we launched our original Jiglu Tags widget last October we listened to all your feedback on what you liked and didn't like about the first version. Then we went away to make Jiglu much, much lovelier:

You wanted better quality tags. So we've completely rewritten our tagging engine and added extra smarts to make it cleverer at recognising the good ones.
You wanted a better user experience. So we've totally redesigned the widget to give it a sleek new look and to give users the most relevant pages first.
You wanted more customisation options. So we've added them - and if you become a Pro user you can use your own branding and even embed your own content driven by our tags.

It took a while, I know, but there was a lot to do...

Already using Jiglu Tags?

If you already have our previous widget then you don't need to do anything at all: the new one will automatically appear in the old widget's place.

The first time you post a new entry on your blog you'll see a slight change in the tags as we reassess which ones we think are good. Over the next couple of weeks our spiders will then recrawl your site to get some additional information that will enable us to make them better still and to give the most relevant results when people search for a tag.

Using the Jigluhood?

If you use one of our community spaces then you'll also find your automatic tags will be updated. Anything new that's published will get better tags immediately, while old messages and entries will take a little while to be updated.

What's this about Pro users?

For those users who want more control over Jiglu we're launching a Pro version. These are the benefits:

Use your own branding in the pop-up overlay rather than Jiglu's.
Choose which sections you want to appear in the widget or remove it from certain types of pages.
Change the look of the pop-up overlay to your own site style.
Choose what else you want to appear in the pop-up overlay, including running your own Google AdSense ads or embedding your own content. When you do that we send through our tag scoring as parameters to the iframe so you can bring in your own relevant content.
Get much higher limits when using our Atom Publishing Protocol-based tagging API.

We'll be launching credit-card signup for Jiglu Tags Pro shortly. Until then, if your site has more than 100,000 page views per week write to us at ... and we can talk.

If you don't want to go Pro, don't worry - the free version is staying and remains ad-free.

If you've got more than one site tagged then visitors will continue to see results from both, but with the current site shown in panel on the left and pages from the other sites in the panel on the right.
If you've got a Jigluhood space linked to your site, then you'll also see discussion messages and knowledge wiki entries from that space in the panel on the right. You can even add knowledge entries for a particular tag and have their content appear in the right panel.
If you've only tagged one site, or there aren't any matches for a tag in your other sites or in a Jigluhood space, then in the panel on the right visitors will see the top five other sites in Jiglu with that tag so they can explore further.

What else has changed?

If you've added manual tags to your blog then we'll pick those up now too and present them alongside the ones that were automatically found. That also means that if you've manually tagged something once but forgot about the tag when you wrote another relevant blog post then we'll link it to that one too.
We've shrunk the JavaScript for the widget and added extra cacheing and hardware so it should appear much faster now.
We no longer index URLs from tagged sites and don't show event dates any more.
The previous new tags and tag map widgets have been removed. If you haven't yet taken them off your blog please do so.

What's next?

We're now about to start work on a release we're targeting for September. This will finally make it possible to edit people tags like ordinary topic tags, let you categorise your tags and make some further improvements in tag quality.

Anyway, we hope you like the new version. Do let us know.