Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
A few moments ago I got the following email:
Hi,
We appreciate your interest in Google Friend Connect and would now like to invite you to try the service. You can get started by visiting our homepage and clicking the “Set up a new site” button. Please sign in with your @gmail.com account to http://www.google.com/friendconnect
Um, hell yeah?
So [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
So, Google Blog Search has been relaunched, and you know what that means…..it’s time to play the _____ killer game.
You know the game. It’s the one where something launches and everyone says it’s going to kill another service. Plurk was going to be a twitter killer. The android phone was going to be the [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Image by Zemanta via CrunchBase
At the Web 2.0 Expo in NY this week, I had a chance to meet up with Jure Cuhalev of Zemanta to get a look at the new release of Zemanta. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Zemanta, it’s a recommendation service for bloggers that is really, really good. [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
I’ve been a real slacker lately over at the matchmine blog, so today I posted an entry entitled “What Is Media Discovery?” Here’s a short snippet of it. Check out the rest on the matchmine blog.
After watching the presentations at TechCrunch50 and DEMOfall 2008, I was surprised at how often I heard the term “discovery” [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
NewsCred.com launched yesterday with a mission to aggregate all of the world’s most credible news in one place. While most players in the “get-your-news-here-and-nowhere-else” game focus on having their members both submit and vote on stories, NewsCred is all about credibility. NewsCred aggregates stories by category from top sources and their users vote on the [...]
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Oh Zemanta, what don’t you do?
I mean, I’ve spent a lot of time telling people just how much I love the Zemanta plugin for WordPress. I’ve blogged about it. I’ve done presentations mentioning the plugin as one of my Super Secret Ill Ninja blogging tricks. And now…….
They’ve added a Zemanta Windows Live Writer Plugin. [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Nathan Burke
If you’re a frequent reader here at good ole blogstring.com, you’ll know that I’m very, very interested in recommendation technology. So I was excited to check out kiobo, a browser plugin, that launched their public beta yesterday. Their idea is to offer recommendations based on a user’s browsing history and the browsing history of their [...]
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