byTagg.com is the latest RSS-reader-come-Twitter-tracker-come-web-crawler to hit the market. Keep track of your trackables in one central place.

Blogs, tweets and news, Oh My! With so much content that we follow daily, it makes sense to manage it all from one simple platform. Also, blog owners will be interested in byTagg’s alluring affiliate program on offer.

Although byTagg has definite room for improvement, it ticks all the right boxes with an simple RSS reader, (some) Twitter following capability and - overall - a fairly user friendly interface.

In the world of cloud computing, it’s an interesting choice for byTagg’s services to be provided by a downloaded application. With a non-browser based interface and ad-supported delivery, will byTagg offer enough to the user to keep coming back?

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Send ’scouts’ out to do your dirty work. Track and aggregate content from blogs, auction sites and job boards with results displayed hourly.

If you want the latest blog entry or the cheapest price on the new camera you’ve got your eye on, you will love Yotify. This service is all about keeping right on the pulse. Sounds like you?

This is a slick app with great design, an easy to use interface and a great proposition for webbers that don’t want to get left behind.

Yotify treads the line of trying to be too much to too many people. Or is that its biggest strength?

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Ambiently is a “discovery engine”, leading you to new websites that you may not have otherwise found.

This service is no doubt developed for people that either really want to dig into a keyword or search phrase or are just happy meandering through the web. I’m sure that SEO marketers will enjoy this app too - an ‘Ambient Page’ is like a library of back links.

If Ambiently markets itself as a search engine, it’s in for a whole world of hurt. As a tool that unearths every backlink - albeit weird, wonky and often obscure - this app has interesting appeal.

Relevance is key to success. The beta release of Ambiently is popping up with some non-related links in the same way a cat shows you they love you by giving you a dessicated bird as a present. They gotta zap those bugs or lose all credibility.

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