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This is a jQuery plugin to create a bar of real-time stream of information
related to your post powered by Collecta search
engine. Collecta monitors the streams of news sites, popular blogs and social
media. So it can show you results as they happen. There are five content
categories in Collecta - updates, stories, comments, photos, and videos.

Features:
Allow me to summarize the features of this plugin.

Show realtime related stream of information based on your post tags.

Collecta provides streams of information from a wide variety of sources.
you can choose from 5 categories of content:


Updates: Tweets, Dents, and other status update messages
common on social sites.

Stories: blog posts and news articles.

Comments: comments for blog posts. but it is expected to
include photo and video comments as well.

Photos.

Videos.

Search by tags in OR or AND operators.

You can also search using a custom query (Fixed query or based on user
input).

Many transition options like opacity, height, font-size.

Each part of the result -avatar, author name, link- has its own class
for easy style customization.

Show or hide some parts of the results like avatar, author name, date.

Use a typical JS call or auto-load div elements that have "related-stream"
class.

Notes:
The Collecta API is very promising, but it is currently beta. So,
things might not go as planned in this early stage.

• Searching in updates doesn't return twitter tweets, just
  http://identi.ca/'>Identi.ca dents (and any service related to
  http://status.net/'>Status.Net). but the API is supposed to
  include Twitter later.
• Beta API has an initial limit of 5000 requests per hour. So, things
  might get a little sluggish if many of you Digg this. So, please don't.. No, not
  really ;) Digg it and Retweet it.
• It is free API. so, you are required to keep that small Collecta badge
  as is.

Check out demos and introduction at this post http://www.moretechtips.net/2009/10/realtime-realted-stream-bar-collecta.html'>Realtime Related Stream Bar; A Collecta-powered jQuery plugin