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Shuffler: Like StumbleUpon & Pandora for Music Blogs
We don’t know about you, but whether it’s asking friends, reading music blogs, or surfing music recommendation systems like Pandora or Last.fm, we’re always on the search for new music.
Today, one of the founders of Twones – a service we called a “Delicious for streaming music” – is launching a new music discovery service called Shuffler that we’ll be adding to our list of music recommendation services.
The service is part StumbleUpon for music blogs and part Pandora, helping users to not only discover new music, but also new music blogs that they can continue to frequent in their unending search for music. The service streams music without requiring you to do any more than pick the genre, but also takes you to the originating music blog, which means you automatically get a bit more information …
Under New Rules, Newspapers Increase Circulation by 400% Without Gaining Any Readers
Newspaper circulation could soon jump wildly, thanks to new standards the industry recommended for itself.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations announced major changes to the way it counts digital readership today that will likely affect media that still rely on print very favorably. The new rules will allow newspapers to count a single subscriber multiple times if he or she pays or registers to access content via a print subscription, website, mobile reader or e-reader edition, among other changes to the way digital access is counted …
PostRank Live with Google Buzz Firehose
Before now, PostRank, the popular social media analytics service, had to manually crawl all Google Buzz accounts and subscribe to the public feeds it found separately prior to meshing that information with the rest of its data. It was unlikely that all the public feeds made it into PostRank and the process “imposed a high server tax for both sides.”
Now, however, with the Google Buzz firehose, PostRank subscribes to one real-time PubSubHubbub feed of all publicly-available Google info. PostRank’s users, the company says, will notice a big difference in the amount and depth of Buzz content …
Why newspaper websites should be more like blogs
Newspapers are in trouble and paywalls have (so far) been a flop. While some people say this heralds the end of ‘real journalism’, maybe newspaper websites just need a rethink. Perhaps they could really learn something from blogs.
Figures leaked to Beehive City this weekend point to a slow start for Rupert Murdoch’s Times paywall in the UK. Meanwhile, another story at the Guardian talks about how rival newspaper the Daily Mail’s website is well on its way to turning a profit without a paywall in sight. It’s also the most viewed newspaper site in the UK. How does it achieve this? I’d say it’s by being more like a blog than an actual newspaper …
Facebook Unveils One of History’s Most Powerful Recommendation Engines
Facebook just announced the availability of a new feature for users creating accounts on the social network: Suggested Interests. Facebook will now recommend that new users sign up for updates from (“Like”) publishers with high reader engagement and subscribed-to by people demographically similar to themselves. That’s a unique combination of factors that only Facebook could offer.
If this intersection of 3 key social software trends is someday exposed more fully to all 500 million Facebook users and more – the Facebook vs. Google battle could become a fight between Recommendation and Search. Facebook recommendations are in the sidebar for most users today, but they are so powerful that it’s worth betting they’ll be center stage in the future …
Bookmark in internet on the go!
Promoting website is often the most important aspect of any business. Building a website is not only enough in most of the cases. It is required to add more popularity to your website in order bring more visitors to your site. Hence promotion is considered as an important aspect of website building. Pluzit helps you a lot in visiting famous websites. It is a great site to bookmark your favorites on the internet and the best part of Pluzit is that it is absolutely free. You can Bookmark and Share all over internet and also very simple to use. It can be downloaded for free and you could immediately put that into use after you download.
Pluzit is found to be very useful for the promoters and it helps in promoting their website, increasing the traffic of the website and also in improving your website rank. Another main advantage of the pluzit comes in its role of removing the clutter. It has lots of customizable bookmark buttons and is also a reliable tool. You would be guaranteed to get a accurate statistics of the actual scenario and this is considered as the biggest advantage of using the Pulzit. Accurate statistics would often provide the best possible case and also helps you a lot in understanding the real scenario. Thus Pulzit is considered to be a powerful tool for both internet users and the promoters. It makes it very easy for the promoter to use the tool to improve your website. You could login to get the actual data and statistics. The registration is absolutely free and hence you could take care of all your promotion needs by registering with the site in a single click! This site would provide you Videotour about how to use the most powerful bookmarking option, which no other site would provide. In order to illustrate more about the bookmarking option you can view the video tour option that Is available in the website. This video tour would provide you with a complete understanding of the bookmarking feature and would make you an expert in this! If you wish to share something to your friends, there is also a bookmark and share option. This would enable the users to share all the WebPages that they have bookmarked. Bookmarking a website is simple and one could do it with just a single click!
The internet is filled up with thousands of thousands of WebPages and most often we come across lots of WebPages that have useful information. It would be really useful to have a tool that makes it easy for the user to bookmark essential aspects. A feature presented by the Pluzit is no doubt very useful for the surfers as well as for the browsers. Promotion of website has never been this easy as that of Pluzit. Pluzit is no doubt big gift for the promoters and it provides an excellent way to them to their websites with just a button click. With increased number of visitors to your website you could be assured of a better business.
Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
Why can’t privacy and connectedness go hand-in-hand? That’s the question being raised by those behind the new Diaspora project, an ambitious undertaking to build an “anti-Facebook” – that is, a private, open source social network that puts you back in control of your personal data.
Envisioned by four NYU computer science students, the Diaspora project would replace today’s centralized social web (yes, they mean you, Facebook) with a decentralized one, while still offering something that’s convenient and easy for anyone to use …
Posterous Releases iPhone, Android Optimized Mobile Sites
Not a week after competitor Tumblr releases a similar feature, Posterous steps up to the plate with Posterous for mobile devices.
As with all things Posterous, it’s designed with simplicity and minimalism in mind. The release also features a few nice touches for the iPhone, specifically “users can swipe left and right to go back and forth between pages. On a blog list page, swiping goes to the next and previous list of blog entries. On a blog post page, swiping goes to the next and previous blog post.” …
Twitter reveals details of new “Annotated Tweets” feature
One of the most exciting announcements at Twitter’s Chirp conference this week was “Annotated Tweets“. Now the company has revealed more details in a message to developers.
The easiest way to think of annotations is as “invisible hashtags” that will allow tweets to be used in all sorts of exciting new ways and all sorts of interesting data to be attached. Although Twitter doesn’t know when annotations will launch, it estimates it will be around two months until a limited rollout begins …
Google Wave Helps Journalist Win Pulitzer Prize.
There have been a lot of discussions lately about how the Internet is changing traditional media. Viewpoints from either side tend to await the chance to discredit the other and we end up with story after story about how the Internet is going to be the death of pen and paper news.
It seems though that one group of people has been sorely missed: those who understand that the Internet is a tool for helping them to provide more interactive, better-written traditional media. It is with this in mind that we want to extend congratulations to Cory Haik and The Seattle Times for recent Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage, including the use of Google Wave …