The blogosphere tends to have less than six degrees of separation to any other blog. While promoting Civil Netizen to the blogging world, I was contacted by Chris Pirillo, creator of Lockergnome (lockergnome.com) and the Gnomedex Conference (gnomedex.com), and formerly of TechTV fame, to redesign his tag metasearch engine TagJag (tagjag.com), formerly known as Gada.be.

I invited one of the minds behind Civil Netizen, Christopher Tse to collaborate with my company, Liquid Orb Media, to develop a new information architecture for TagJag. We were given only about a week to pull together a new design and presentation for the conference.

After successfully working on Gada.be and helping rebrand his search engine TagJag, Christopher Tse and I were invited to attend the Gnomedex 6.0 conference organized by Chris (Pirillo) and Ponzi, the hosts and creators of Gnomedex. Gnomedex is an annual technology conference created by the people behind Lockergnome. The attendees are typically technology enthusiasts, bloggers, and entrepreneurs. It is considered an (un)conference due to its format where speakers lead interactive discussions with the audience.

It is definitely not the typical conference I am used to attending. TagJag as a preview was launched during the last session of the conference entitled “Should TagJag/Gada.be get funding?” by Chris Pirillo. Chris Pirillo presented TagJag to the audience and a panel of three venture capitalists: Jeff Clavier, Brad Feld, and Rick Segal. Here is an in-depth article that Jeff Clavier wrote on the presentation and gives some interesting feedback on presenting to VC’s and when to get funding.

Michael Arrington, posted the preview of the TagJag/Gada.be redesign (screenshots) on TechCrunch the Sunday before the conference. (In its nutshell, TagJag is a tag-based metasearch engine which searches over 300+ feeds and aggregates the search results into one page separated by popular categories.)

The single track focus of the conference allowed people to mingle during breaks and meals (all inclusive BTW). While we were in town the first night we were interviewed by the Seattle Podcasting Network who enjoyed seeing our work on TagJag. Thanks again to Travis (crapmonkey.com) and Stuart (sufferableass.com) for thinking that we were interesting enough to give us the opportunity to speak about Civil Netizen and our work on TagJag via this Podcast.

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