Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
So, SezWho, the company that hopes to be the universal profile service for the social web announced three new partners causing speculation and controversy. SezWho announced partnerships with Izea, Entrecard, and Creative Weblogging. The three-partner release was a conscious decision in order to show both momentum in partnerships as well as a demonstration of the [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Last week blogged.com launched their new home page, which spotlights the top stories and topics discussed in popular blogs. They’re hoping to compete with the other news aggregators like techmeme, reddit, google news, and digg. So, how is it? Well, let’s take a look: Topics: Business Entertainment Family & Home Health & Science Humor Politics [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Full Disclosure: I work at matchmine. Just saying. Today matchmine announced that blogged.com has gone live on the matchmine Media Discovery Platform. It’s weird to say it as “matchmine announced”, since, well, I’m part of matchmine. Almost like when people do their “about” page in the third person, but I digress. Here’s what that means: [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
This morning I installed the Zemanta plugin, which suggests photos, links, articles and tags while you’re composing a blog post. After you write 300 characters, the Zemanta plugin gives contextual suggestions from Flickr, and article suggestions from 300 media sources and the blogs of Zemanta users. Here’s what it looks like: Since this post is [...]
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Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Today at 9:02 AM, matchmine’s press release hit the wires announcing four new partners and one distribution deal. Though I could pick up my metaphorical pom-poms again and preach the virtues of matchmine (I am their evangelist, you know), I won’t do that here. Instead, I’d rather take a look at the partners. 1. Odeo- [...]
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Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Nathan
Thanks to my lovely friend Julia Roy, I have discovered a neat little Twitter tool that breaks down your Twit usage into handy little graphs. I really am not sure what purpose this serves, other than to make you go “I send more @s to Paull Young than anyone else by a country mile? And [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
On Monday at 9:00 am, matchmine announced the following: NEEDHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–matchmine™ today announced that the first two partners in the MatchKey Partner Network have gone live with the matchmine Media Discovery Platform™. Fuzz.com, a music company providing a bold new solution to connect artists and fans, and FilmCrave.com, a social utility revolving around movie [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
I don’t know where to start. I really don’t. When diigo’s press release said they were launching over 100 new features, I didn’t see how that could be possible. From the release: This launch includes a completely new UI and code base, and over 100 new features. In addition to substantial improvements in its usability [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Okay, so I’m curious. Where do you find the stuff that you love? More importantly, I’d like to know where you go to find the stuff you’re going to love? "Huh?" you ask. Here’s that I mean: When you’re looking for something new, where do you go to find it? If you’re looking for a [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
This morning I saw news of a new facebook app called “Social Suggester”, which promises: Social Suggester is a social media discovery tool that allows you to easily find new Music, Movies, TV Shows and Books. Just type in a name (or select from your friends favorites) and instantly get a list of suggestions and [...]
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