Related Content Startups Raising Capital
OneSpot is an interesting company and it is good news to read that they have successfully raised $4.2m in capital.
There are a bunch of companies in the “related content” space and what is interesting is that there are several deployment models that not only compliment each other but also offer unique monetization options. OneSpot is [...]
Advertising in Applications
Few things elicit the visceral reaction that advertising inserted in applications does. Just the mere mention of the word brings out a stream of critics who decry the intrusion that ads impose on usability and express dismay at the treasonous behavior of the developers and companies in question.
Yesterday Nick Bradbury released a beta version [...]
TopStyle Acquired
TopStyle is one of those products that has a small but very committed following. I’m pleased to see that it is going to a good home where the user community will be well served by a lead developer who is just as passionate about TopStyle as Nick was.
It’s no secret that TopStyle has [...]
What makes a blog post popular?
Our friends over at mSpoke posted part 1 in a series about what makes blog posts popular. This is an in-depth look at the factors that contribute to popularity, here Paul is looking at post writing quality and correlation to popularity.
To start, we’ll need a bunch of feed items and measures of popularity [...]
NewsGator as the Anti-AP
Considering this latest announcement is an evolution of things we have been working on all year, this is probably a lot less exciting to us than for people hearing it for the first time. But it is genuinely exciting because it delivers on a promise as old as the internet itself, the ability to integrate [...]
Social Software Notes
Two thoughts.
We’ve been using Yammer but it’s not clear to me what advantages this has over IM and chatrooms, providing you are already using those behind your firewall (we use Jabber). Having said that, Yammer is a very nice UI and the twitter-like desktop and mobile clients are great. It’s possible to have too much [...]
Reuters and NewsGator Partner on Election Coverage
I was remiss in not writing about another announcement we made yesterday. Reuters and NewsGator have teamed up to offer U.S. election coverage widgets for individuals and publishers.
The idea of doing widgets with specific event coverage is nothing new, but what makes this program unique is that we are offering full text Reuters coverage and [...]
RSS Adoption Rates
What’s holding RSS back, asks Rubel, the answer is simple: R S and S. Nobody outside of a minority group of self-described geeks will use an RSS client or online reader. I know our numbers and I know what Bloglines and Google Reader do in terms of daily users. It’s no more than half a [...]
Branded iPhone Apps From NewsGator
We have experienced a lot of success with our NetNewsWire application on the iPhone, and like all good things in business it lent itself to a series of “what if” discussions internally, the result of which was what I am writing about today.
With NewsGator’s native iPhone Apps your brand and content are just a fingertip [...]
Value Part Deux
I was thinking some more about the post I wrote yesterday on Apple value and it intersected with another observation I made about something completely unrelated.
For the last couple of days I have had a guy working on our house, specifically he is a metal fabricator and I hired him to make copper pieces for [...]
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