The great team over at Search Wikia have just today released their ‘WISE’ (Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions) platform, which embeds results from other sources directly in the search results. Polar Rose is one of Search Wikia’s launch partners and you’ll find our results embedded in many searches, like the George Clooney example below.

Search Wikia has integrated Polar Rose using our JSON/JSONP API which will be launched publicly soon. We’ll also be working on tweaking the integration with Search Wikia as things evolve.

ps. While Search Wikia still has a very small share in the search market, it’s a project that we at Polar Rose feel is very important. For some background on why, read the post I did over at the O’Reilly Radar back when Search Wikia first launched back in January.

Happy times. After yesterday’s introduction of Jalbum as our initial partner we’re very exited bringing on another two great partners today.

23

23 is the visual sharing company. Its products help individuals, groups, businesses and institutions to act visually in more than 200 countries across the globe on a daily basis.

Twitxr

Twitxr is a mobile photosharing service that lets users easily share pictures and status updates from any mobile phone with their friends on Twitxr, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Picasa. Twitxr has a great iPhone app with automatic geotagging of pictures, plus Windows Mobile and Java applications for most cameraphones around. Additionally users can send pictures and text updates using any mobile device via email and mobile web.

We really look forward working with these fantastic sites, their users, and the people behind.

Only a few days after moving from private to public beta we’ve now opened up for partners as well by releasing the Polar Rose Widget.

This first release is initially for partners to test the functionality on their websites. Over the next few weeks will be getting to feedback and making updates and improvements. We will announce when the widget is fully open to all.

Our first partner – Jalbum

Jalbum is one of the fastest growing photo sharing communities in the world. Jalbum photo albums can have any look, functionality and can be published to any site. Millions of photo albums are distributed over 100’s of thousands of web servers globally, with a current rate of 90 million monthly page views.

Our friends at Jalbum are currently finalizing the remaining tasks to have the widget available to all their users as an opt-in feature. You can get a sneak preview of the widget in action at http://davidekholm.jalbum.net/faces/.

We’re very happy to have Jalbum as our first partner and welcome the Jalbum team and users to Polar Rose.

PS. Read more about the partner widget here http://info.polarrose.com/partners/ where you’ll find a presentation, technical specifications and everything else needed to get started. Remember that we’re some days off from the public release so changes can still occur and please use for testing only.