Shipwire. Evan Robinson. Fashion Trends & Styles. Polyvore Looks Stylin' In This New $5.6 Million Round Of Funding. Polyvore's Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect. Polyvore To Tempt Fashionistas To Create, Then Spend. Exclusive: Former Googler Cassidy Steps Down as Polyvore CEO (Kara Swisher/BoomTown) At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs. That's far too much for any reader to follow. Fortunately, Techmeme arranges all of these links into a single, easy-to-scan page. Our goal is to become your tech news site of record. Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input. Our human editors are: Lidija Davis, Mahendra Palsule, Andre Garrigo, David Connell, Jarrod Cugley, and occasionally Omer Horvitz and Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera.
Launched in 2005, Techmeme remains independent, bootstrapped, and privately held. Yahoo! Pipes. Yahoo! Pipes is a web application from Yahoo! That provides a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps. The application works by enabling users to "pipe" information from different sources and then set up rules for how that content should be modified (for example, filtering). A typical example is New York Times through Flickr,[1] a pipe which takes The New York Times RSS feed and adds a photo from Flickr based on the keywords of each item. Other than the pipe editing page, the website has a documentation page and a discussion page. History[edit] Yahoo! Purpose[edit] The purpose of Yahoo!
Creating and editing a Pipe[edit] To create or edit a pipe, user has to sign up with a Yahoo! The Canvas[edit] Canvas is the main pane where the editing of pipes is done. The Library[edit] Sources[edit] User Inputs[edit] Operators[edit] URL[edit] String[edit] Date[edit] Pasha Sadri. Pasha Sadri (Yahoo!'s Pipes) Pasha Sadri. Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking. Pinboard. Open Libraries – "… are signs of life and hope: They are the cornerstone of democracy"
Not for the first time, the glut of incoming information threatens to push out useful knowledge into merely a cloud of data. And there’s no doubt that activity streams and linked data are two of the more interesting things to aid research in this onrushing surge of information. In this screen-mediated age, the advantages of deep focus and hyper attention are mixed up like never before, since the advantage accrues to the company who can collect the most data, aggregate it, and repurpose it to willing marketers. N. Katherine Hayles does an excellent job of distinguishing between the uses of hyper and deep attention without privileging either. Her point is simple,”Deep attention is superb for solving complex problems represented in a single medium, but it comes at the price of environment alertness and flexibility of response.
Does data matter? The MESUR project is one of the more interesting research projects going, now living on as a product from Ex Libris called bx. Chrisdiclerico.com » Blog Archive » space shuttle ridiculousness. Macej Ceglowski pinboard at Duck Duck Go. Idle Words - Maciej Ceglowski. Maciej Ceglowski. Particle.
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In a post Monday on a management restructuring at Yahoo (YHOO) that new CEO Carol Bartz is likely to unveil to the company this week–sources tell me it is now set to be announced internally tomorrow–I noted that Boerries was one of the more likely high-level execs to go. He has been the EVP for the Connected Device Division at Yahoo for four years, coming to the company in 2005 with the acquisition of VerdiSoft. He also had earlier sold another software company to Sun Microsystems (JAVA) in 1999. Nonetheless, many inside Yahoo expected him to go with the changing of leadership recently, after almost two years of turmoil at Yahoo. I wrote: Boerries, a talented but more freewheeling exec under Yang, is another question all together.
Team, Marco. NumberFire. NumberFire. Brand Marketing Firm Involver Launches ‘AMP’ Social Media Dashboard. Involver, a company that helps both brands and smaller businesses manage their presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other online portals, has launched a new dashboard they’re calling AMP. The dashboard allows brands to aggregate all of their inbound tweets, Facebook comments, and other messages on a single site, and it isn’t just for monitoring incoming content — you can also respond to messages directly from the page.
Involver was founded in 2007 and boasts some big brands as clients, including Warner Brothers, American Apparel, Facebook, and Alicia Keys. They’re also touting some big stats: in terms of clients, they have 80,000 brands/agencies and 200 million ‘Like’ relationships on Facebook (at least, their clients do). That includes plenty of dupes (people who have Liked more than one brand that uses Involver), and some of these brands are probably only using an app or two, but it’s definitely impressive. Nik Bonaddio. Nik Bønaddio (nbonaddio) on Plancast. Property and Homes Search by Nestoria.
Nestoria. Nestoria. Nestoria is a vertical search engine for real estate. In terms of users, Nestoria is the 5th largest property web site in the UK (February 2012 [1]) and the 9th in Spain (comScore, May 2009 [2]). Overview[edit] Nestoria aggregates real estate listings from property portals and provides location-based search to Internet users. Results can be sorted by relevance, freshness, distance and type of property. Company[edit] Javier Etxebeste and Ed Freyfogle, two former Yahoo! Websites[edit] In addition to the property search engine, Nestoria's team experiments with usability interfaces and the use of APIs in mashups.
In January 2010 Nestoria won Yahoo! ' Criticism[edit] As with other search engines, Nestoria's search index is as updated and accurate as the data obtained from its sources (property portals and websites), which in turn are fed from estate agents' data. References[edit] External links[edit] Nestoria blog - official UK company blogCompany profile on CrunchBaseYahoo! Nestoria UK Blog - Home. Mashup Case Study: Nestoria. In this installment of our mashup case study series we speak with Ed Freyfogle, the founder of Nestoria, a property search engine in the UK and Spain. Their service makes extensive use of the Google Maps API and other sources to include richer information about properties and neighborhoods. They are also an example of an “API stack” since they build on top of APIs but also provide an API of their own. Q: Can you give us a bit of background on Nestoria? We’re a vertical search engine for the property (real estate as they say in the US) market.
We operate in the the UK and Spain. We’re a small team and very technology/data/engineering driven. Q: What is your business model? We believe strongly in performance based marketing. Q: What APIs did you use and what were the best and the worst aspects of using them? Users love our integration with Google Maps, and we were used by Google as a case study for their API. Q: What programming languages and tools is this built with? Ed Freyfogle (Startups) at Duck Duck Go. Ed Freyfogle (freyfogle) Ed Freyfogle. nPario empowers organizations to leverage the power of their data. nPario. Bassel of ArabCrunch at Aljazeera Discussing Google Tashkeel. Ex-Yahoo Executives Launch nPario | Bassel Ojjeh - Patents & Inventors, bibliographic references. Browse Inventors: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Recent bibliographic sampling of Bassel Ojjeh patents listed/published in the public domain by the USPTO (USPTO Patent Application #,Title): Archived* (*May have duplicates - we are upgrading our archive.) 20080235088 - System for measuring web traffic related to an offline advertising campaign20080235089 - System for serving advertisements based on offline advertising campaigns The bibliographic references displayed about Bassel Ojjeh's patents are for a recent sample of Bassel Ojjeh's publicly published patent applications.
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Listen to DJ mixes, upload DJ mix, DJ mixtapes - Mixcrate. Mixcrate. Mob.ly. Mihir Shah. Mihir Shah is the CEO and co-founder of Mobly, formerly GoodRec. Prior to co-founding Mob.ly, Mihir served in key product leadership roles at Yahoo! For over four years, most recently as Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo! Search. Mihir was responsible for the US Web Search product and also helped launch Yahoo’s first mobile search products.
Before joining Yahoo! Mihir started his career as a management consultant at R. See Less Mihir started his career as a management consultant at R. Mob.ly. Loud3r. Loud3r. Lowell Goss. Digital.Hollywood. Suzy Sandberg, President, PM Digital: Suzy Sandberg is president of PM Digital. Since 2001, Suzy and her seasoned management team have molded the company’s vision as it relates to, developing new products, new technologies and overseeing the day-to-day operations. Under Suzy’s leadership, PM Digital has quietly become one of the leading full-service internet marketing agencies specializing in search engine marketing. Suzy also sits as one of six members of the executive team of parent company ParadyszMatera, participating in the decision-making of the entire company.
Both ParadyszMatera and PM Digital have deep roots in the retail sector. Suzy is well versed in retail issues, currently working with such high profile clients as Bloomingdale’s and Eileen Fisher, among others. Lowell Goss - Founder, CEO, LOUD3R: Lowell has over a decade of experience in Internet media and user experience strategy. Bill Stephenson, Vice President, Sales and Client Service, The Nielsen Company, Online. Loud3r Launches popURLs Competitor. At a glance, Loud3r appears to be yet another version of popURLs or Alltop, just with a lot more verticals right off the bat. Dig a little deeper (you don't have to dig very far) and you'll see that one major differentiating factor for loud3r is that it's also a social network.
You can create a user profile, and it will universally give you access to your profiles on lound3r's family of sites. However, this isn't the only thing that makes loud3r different from the rest. Lowell Goss, loud3r's founder and CEO of loud3r, was also quick to point out that loud3r does not have the exact same target demographic as popURLs and Alltop. With mainstream users in mind, popURLS and Alltop take the simplified and heavily curated approach to presenting an aggregated site of news feeds. loud3r, on the other hand, has an involved algorithm for determining the best content from across the Web, depending on your particular interest.
How publishers curate the world of content. Advertisement It's nothing new that many news websites augment their own content with repackaged content from around the Web, but the applications have evolved along with the technology. Content providers are experimenting with all sorts of ways for editors and technology to push outside content to readers, whether through aggregation or curation (for a lengthy discussion about the difference, check out the Nieman Journalism Lab). While publishers choose to utilize aggregation and curation platforms in a variety of ways, the main point is clear: Many media companies see benefits in collecting content from around the Web. Publishers find curation can attract and retain readers by offering the best of all content, rather than the best of just their own content. Here are a few ways publishers are deploying these platforms to add to their site's content: Topic hubs Topical pages have gone beyond story lists, pulling in interactive content both inside and outside of news organizations.
Lowell Goss. Lowell Goss. Lowell goss. Lowell Goss (Startups) at Duck Duck Go. Liftium has ceased operations. Krux. Founded in 2010, Krux delivers data fabric for the consumer web. The company's platform helps websites protect, manage, and monetize data across all digital screens and sources. With Krux, companies deliver cooler, safer, faster, smarter web experiences. With Krux, consumers gain confidence that their favorite websites are operating under the plain light of day. Dozens of website operators in the US, Europe, and Asia have adopted Krux technology, including companies like NBC Universal, Sanoma, Recruit, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
Through its diverse community of clients and partners, Krux helps improve web experiences for more than 400 million Internet users worldwide. Krux is privately held, with offices in San Francisco and New York. Want to join the Krux team? What We Do Krux delivers cloud-based consumer data solutions through a combination of Big Data and proprietary algorithms. The Big Idea. Resume for Nick Sullivan - Web Software Architect. Lensley - Digital Photobooth Rentals. Random($foo) Leonard Lin on 43 Things. Clearing out Things… I don’t have an exact count, but with a few hundred people in about a dozen social circles, I’ve long ago passed the point where I’m actively trying to meet new people.
Over the past few years, I’ve gotten a bit better in striking up conversations with random people (basically ask a question, be interested, go from there… you just need to assume they want to talk to you – they’ll let you know if they don’t). Now if “meeting new people” is a euphemism for finding a significant other, that’s a different Thing. :) I just got my pass for SXSW 2008. This will be my 9th SXSWi (and my first SXSW Music – I finally got a Platinum badge). Leonard Lin. Leonard Lin. Krillion. Joel Toledano. Joel Toledano (joeltoledano) Joel Toledano - Pipl Profile.
Speaker: Joel Toledano: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, March 31 - April 03, 2009, San Francisco, CA. Website Joel is Chief Executive Officer of Krillion. Prior to founding Krillion, Joel was the Director of Business Development and chief negotiator for the Yahoo! Search business unit, where he was responsible for establishing and managing strategic partnerships and executing new revenue-producing channels and business initiatives including Yahoo!’
S Search, Access and subscription services businesses. In addition, he previously managed day-to-day aspects of the company’s sponsored search relationship with Overture Services prior to Yahoo!’ S acquisition of the company. Prior to his work for Yahoo! Before joining Yahoo! Special Kelsey Group Presentation: Local 2.0: The Evolution of Local Search.