Seesmic. Seesmic has been acquired by HootSuite and as of March 2013, the Seesmic website is no longer supported. But HootSuite welcomes all Seesmic users into our nest! Here’s how you can start using HootSuite today. Making the transition to HootSuite: Getting started is easy. What this means to Seesmic users: Like Seesmic, HootSuite offers a suite of social media management tools for business, with even more options for SMB and enterprise customers. To get a clearer picture of what this means to users, we have prepared a comparison chart that will help you choose the right solution for you.
Pearltrees Announces $6.7m Funding Says It Will Start Charging For Premium Services. Posted by Tom Foremski - February 15, 2012 Congratulations to Pearltrees, (a former client) on raising 5 million Euros, about $6.7 million in Series B funding. The Paris-based company offers a web service that groups users' selected web pages into collections of "pearls" - visual metaphors that can be shared and collected online by others. Here are more details from Pearltrees on the funding and its "freemium" plan, which will start charging some of its users for premium services. The Group Accueil, a privately held, diversified corporation that had invested previously, led the round.
The new capital will allow the company to scale the product and monetize the service. “Pearltrees has leveraged social curation to create an open and collaborative interest graph of the Web” says Pearltrees’ CEO Patrice Lamothe. 15014 - Pearltrees Raises EUR 5m to Expand ‘Interest Graph’ In France, Pearltrees - which provides an interface for finding, sharing and analyzing web content - has raised EUR 5 million ($6.7m) in new funding, which will be used to scale its ‘interest graph’ product. Launched in December 2009, Paris-based Pearltrees enables users to make social connections based on shared interests such as news, the arts, entertainment and sciences. The system produces data which can be used by marketers to provide insight into ‘the consumer mind’.
The basic unit of Pearltrees’ service is the ‘pearl’, which is basically a visual bookmark. Users can assemble these pearls into trees based around a topic. Pearltrees uses that data to determine how different topics and bookmarks are related, and to enable users to find new pearls related to whatever topic they’re exploring through its ‘related interests’ button. The latest round of funding was led by former investor The Group Accueil, bringing the total raised to date, to around EUR 11.6 million. Pearltrees injects organization into your social interest graph.
Untitled. The 12 Bookmarklets Your Social Media Life Is Missing - Technology. If you juggle multiple social media presences (and these days, who doesn't?) , you're almost certainly spending more time clicking back and forth than you need to. Bookmarklets are free, minimally invasive, time-saving applications, yet a small fraction of internet denizens are using them. They make sharing and posting content while surfing the Web as easy as clicking a button—without leaving the page you're on. These tools do everything from creating Tumblr posts to tweeting links—all without requiring you to be on the social media site itself. So whenever you have a desire to "share" an Internet gem with your fellow culture vultures, the bookmarklet will get the job done in the time it takes you to open up a new tab.
We've compiled a list of social media bookmarklets (with links to install them, natch)—drag them to your toolbar now, and watch your social media life all but maintain itself. Pinterest Tumblr Just hit "Share on Tumblr" and a post box will pop up. Svpply Digg Facebook Twitter. Dropmark Is A Collaborative Presentations Tool.
Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. Dropmark offers simple drag-and-drop file sharing, like a number of web apps before it. But you can also create presentations or slideshows, and collaborate with others just as easily. You can see the basic functionality of Dropmark in the video above, but here’s a rundown. You create a collection of files, drag those files right into your browser, wait for them to upload, and then decide how to share that collection. You can make it public or share with individuals. Depending on what you upload, you can use a collection as a (full screen) photo slideshow or presentation. In the event you don’t want to visit the Dropmark site to upload your files, you can just install a browser extension that’ll bring up a sidebar you can use to quickly add files to any collection.
Dropmark. Add the Storyify Bookmarklet to Your iPad! · MaggieB. Post selection to Facebook - enhanced Facebook bookmarklet | ErlyCoder. News - Download Pulse.me Bookmarklet. Exposé is a bookmarklet that lets your friends be the editors. What if your friends laid out the home pages of major news organizations, instead of a bunch of editors you’ve never met? The folks at News.me toyed with that idea at an afternoon hackathon a few months ago, and the result is News.me Exposé, a bookmarklet that reveals the “top stories” as determined by what your friends are sharing on Twitter. A wee bookmarklet it may be, but Exposé reflects the company’s belief that our friends can be better curators than professional journalists — and that home pages are losing relevance as discovery points. “The web is about conversations, not pages — this brings the conversation front and center,” said Jake Levine, the News.me general manager, in an email.
“Why do we spend so much time thinking about discovery on publisher homepages when users are finding their news elsewhere? Why do we divide content into categories and sub-categories? He continued: “Destinations are not irrelevant, but they might be less important than they once were. News.me Launces Exposé to Help You Find Relevant News on the Web. Social discovery tool News.me helps you find relevant and interesting news based on what your friends are sharing on Twitter. We all get slammed with a river of links when checking our Twitter streams, so the tool has been extremely helpful to parse out the best of the best.
Today, the company launched a tool that lets you surf the web and instantly see what you should check out and read on the site you’re on. Instead of waiting to be told that something is relevant when using News.me, the new Exposé bookmarklet will let you click a simple button when visiting your favorite news site and immediately tell you which stories to read based on what your friends have read. Here’s what News.me had to say about the feature: Front page editors at major publishers like the New York Times and the New Yorker are masters at laying out content on their homepages, and the recommendations implicit in that layout are incredibly valuable. How to sync Xmarks for FireFox? | | TechBreathsTechBreaths. Getting Started with the Clipboard Bookmarklet on Firefox-Technology.
Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Management. Ships blow bubbles out their bottoms, improve fuel efficiency. A couple days ago we wrote about that badass space-fighter attack boat thing, and we mentioned that it uses "supercavitating technology" to help reduce hull friction. Supercavitation works on bigger boats, too, and a new generation of cargo ships will use lots of little bubbles to improve their fuel efficiency by 25%. Mitsubishi's Air Lubrication System (MALS) uses an array of powerful air pumps to blow lots and lots of streams of tiny little bubbles through holes in the bottoms of ships. These bubbles create a barrier of air between the hull of the ship and the water, so that much of the ship's hull isn't actually touching the water anymore.
This drastically reduces friction, and enables the ship to move either much faster or much more efficiently (pick one). Unsurprisingly, the military has been interested supercavitation for a while now, but for the speed boost as opposed to the efficiency increase. Via NBF. Matchbook receives $250k seed fund for bookmark app. Bookmarking mobile app Matchbook announced a $250,000 funding from investors Quotidian Ventures and angel investor Rick Webb. It also launched a new feature for intent-based deals. Matchbook is a mobile app that allows users to make notes on their favorite restaurants, bars, and venues, then organize these notes on their mobile devices. Matchbook's new feature involves an integration with daily deal sites, like Groupon, Gilt City, and Living Social, for bookmarking outlets.
The app generates user-specific notifications based on discounted prices. Matchbook is currently available free for iOS. “When someone gets a restaurant recommendation, they tend to write it down in the notepad app of their phone, and then do nothing with it because it lacks organization. Matchbook makes that already occurring behavior useful,” said Matchbook founder Jason Schwartz, in an interview. Users can organize their bookmarks based on tags and frequency of visits, among other criteria. Japan Falls in Love with Oxford English Apps. On February 14, English language learning apps featuring Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes took the top slots on Japan’s App Store in the education segment. Since then, they have also taken the #1 spot overall for both iPad and iPhone categories. These apps, based on 30 stories from the Oxford Bookworms graded reader series, help learners improve their English.
Classics Phantom of the Opera, The Wizard of Oz, The Jungle Book, Pride and Prejudice and Gulliver’s Travels are among the selected titles. Using the apps, learners can read and listen to the story, view full-color illustrations and test vocabulary using interactive quizzes. Narrated by native-speaking actors, the apps allow learners to bookmark their progress, check meaning of highlighted words and scroll the glossary to check for words.
Untitled on we heart it / visual bookmark #23597557. Flickr Adopts Pinterest 'Kill Switch' to Prevent Photo Sharing. The quick rise of the social-networking site Pinterest has summoned up a host of new questions about the legality of the content that its users – more than 10 million registered in all – are posting across the site in droves. In other words, what does one do with all the copyrighted material being shared across the site? While Pinterest has attempted to solve the problem on its end by giving publishers a means to flag and report content for removal, that's an awfully ambitious undertaking, especially when the content being shared has been curated from other giant social networks.
How might a typical Flickr user even go about finding and flagging images that he or she doesn't want shared, for example? In this case, Yahoo's photo-sharing site chose to adopt Pinterest's most recently announced feature, which we're calling the "Pinterest Kill Switch. " It comes in the form of a small piece of HTML code that can be added to any website. "For Pinterest, the legal issues are not cut and dry. Foursquare. Create Your Own Newspaper Online with the New and Improved Paper.li. Via Scoop.it – Serve4impact: designing design driven operations If you have not yet heard about it, Paper.li has recently graduated to become a true Real-Time News and Content Curation Tool. With the new Paper.li you can now turn any Twitter, Facebook and RSS feed into sources for your own online newspaper, with the added power of including manually any content or resource you may deem relevant.
Key new features: 1) Improved Curation Paper.li has increased the number of content streams, introduced new sources such as Google+ and RSS feeds and improved filtering to aid you in publishing your topic specific papers. 2) “Publish it” Bookmarklet Paper.li has finally released a bookmarklet to add any content you run into inside your newspaper. This is an essential tool in a web publisher or a curator toolkit.
If you like this post, please share on your networks Like this: Like Loading... Related The #Customer #Experience Digest In "Valuable various" Firebug. How To Add The Paper.li Publish It Bookmarklet To Your Bookmarks Bar - iPentimento | Genealogy and History. With so many people publishing their own daily paper through Paper.li, you might need to quickly add something to your current issue. That’s where the new Paper.li “Publish It!” Feature comes in handy. I’ve noticed though that some people don’t quite know how to add this tool to their bookmarks toolbar.
What seems easy to the creator of tools like this isn’t always the case for people still learning the lingo and locations of things. First, go to the Paper.li home page and login. On the black bar at the top, click on Newsstand. This takes you to another page where you will be able to find the Publish It! Click on that tab and it will open to show you the view of the actual button you will drag and drop. Hold your LEFT mouse button down as you DRAG and DROP that blue button up to your bookmarks bar. An improved proxy bookmarklet? I wrote about different ways to add the ezproxy stem to url almost 2 years ago but the bookmarklet method has always being the most popular method used by libraries to allow members access to articles via the library's subscription even when off campus.MLibrary's proxy server bookmarklet is perhaps representative of such a bookmarklet, and of course it works fine on both iPhone and iPads (as well as presumably other smartphones and tablets).
I've always wondered how popular such bookmarklets are, I've received raves reviews when I demonstrated it in classes, usually accompanied by "I wish I knew about this earlier". But all this is anecdotal of course. Somewhat better evidence is that the FAQ on how to install the proxy bookmarklet is currently the 9th most popular FAQ with over a 1,000 views, which surprised me. But of course it would be better if you could get more direct evidence, to know the actual number of times the proxy bookmarklet is clicked. Can one do better? Twitter Just Made It a Whole Lot Easier to Embed Tweets. 8 December '11, 08:09pm Follow With Twitter unleashing a number of new updates to its website and mobile applications to help its users post their thoughts and discover new content, the microblogging service has made it a whole lot easier for website owners to embed messages in their websites.
Twitter believes that “everyone should be able to view and interact with Tweets on the Web in the same ways you would from any Twitter client”, so in that regard it has introduced a new way to embed tweets that simply requires users to copy and paste a line of code or even a link. Once pasted, Twitter takes control of how the tweet is displayed. Firstly, the tweet is embedded featuring a slick new design , also displaying links to follow the user that posted it, quickly reply, retweet or favourite the tweet with a single click. View the permalink for the tweet you wish to embed, hit “Embed this Tweet” and you are done. WordPress Posterous Hashtag Button. Bookmarklet to check alt attributes. Bookmarklet | Carrie Spencer AuthorCarrie Spencer Author. Scholarfy | Google Scholar bookmarklet by Johan Ugander. Simple Google+ Bookmarklet by AJ Batac.
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