Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by Nathan Burke
No one seems happy with the state of news aggregation. I know that I’m not. When it comes to my RSS reader, I often feel completely overwhelmed, and I always see duplicate content. Where most personalized news services try to be your one location for all news across the web, Nuze2me is taking a different [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Back in October, I wrote about Signal Patterns launching a facebook app to match personality traits to voting behavior. Today, they’ve announced the official launch of their two first web apps: Personality Patterns and Music Patterns. From their press release:
The applications are now available on SignalPatterns.com, a first-of-its-kind website where people use professional psychology tools, [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Veedow is a shopping discovery site that recommends products to users based on their expressed interests. The moment I heard the word "discovery", I was all over it. Frequent readers of this blog may remember that until October, I worked at matchmine, a media discovery company that recommended music, video, podcasts and blogs to users [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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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 August 29th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Just saw this one and had to give it a test drive. Though somewhat cryptic right now, it looks like Signal Patterns is trying to help people find content based on dating site-like personality profiles. From their site:
We enable self-discovery through research surveys on topics as varied as tastes in music and the psychology of [...]
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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 August 6th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
At the beginning of July, I wrote about TripSay’s invitation only beta. Well, looks like they’re moving quickly, as the travel-centered social network has moved into public beta today.
In addition to opening its doors to the masses, TripSay has added some new features:
World builder: A form letting users add reviews and tips about places [...]
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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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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Sarah Wurrey
Not since I saw an article about a service that prevents you from dialing certain numbers after you’ve been drinking have I seen something that could so revolutionize the often painfully awkward world of modern dating.
I’m an avid screener. Whether it’s my mother and sister (who seem to call on a daily basis, particularly [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Sarah Wurrey
Now here’s something I never thought of. (Isn’t that always with the way with something new?)
The lovely Amanda has a new client, 211(me), and kindly asked if I’d check them out . (She put a great pitch together, by the way, by appealing to both Nathan and myself on a personal level and connecting her [...]
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