There are many feed remixing solutions out of private beta these days and judging from the blog coverage, Blastfeed solutions with the best of them. Which is not bad to say that 2or3things are a three-man Parisian start-up, 8 months young.
Here in France the presidential campaign is in full flog and 2or3things have come up with “A little bit of marketing to show what we can do with the Blastfeed platform. Continue reading
Tariq Krim will be will be launching a major Netvibes update at the FOWA – Future Of Web Apps – conference being held in London over the next two days. The CEO of the Paris based – Ajax-ified start page – company is scheduled to speak on Wednesday.
The Frenchman was quoted recently as saying “Browsing RSS is kind of boring right now…It should be sexy.”
So wot ye got ? Continue reading
French start-up Criteo, the distributed recommendation service, is dishing out their ‘collaborative filtering technology’ for use in the blogosphere with the AutoRoll widget.
The idea is a dynamic blog roll made up of similar sites that the people who visit your site have an affinity with. It’s a community thing I suppose, a kind of MyBlogLogs for recommending other sites or blogs. Continue reading
Today Webwag launches Widgets On Demand (WOD) their widget killer application as announced by Webwag’s founder Franck Poisson on a comment to an earlier post here on quoi9. I’ve been having a look at it over the weekend and its quite nifty really. We’ve recently seen Pageflakes proposing ‘widgets to take-out’. Then there was Netvibes with ‘lend us your google gadgets’ and now we’ve got ‘if you like it, just cut it out‘. Because that is how simple WOD makes it to change, just about anything on a web page, into a widget and bung it on you Webwag portal.
Once you’ve given WOD the URL of the page your interested in, that page opens inside Webwag, then you just highlight the area that you want as a widget on your start page, click done and that is all. Your – up to date – XML driven – dynamic widget is yours.
After all, thats where the interest in widgets lie, they contain updated information. With this in mind I tried a couple of DIY widgets myself. First off, a visit to auntie (the BBC) to cut out the news ticker. Which worked well – although a little short in length, (auntie’s tickers are quite long, as befits her age I might add), Webwag are working on a ‘free-size WOD’ version Frank tells me. Next up, Météo France to cut out the weather map for ‘le gard’ (the county I’m stuck in) and that worked fine, complete with little rain clouds moving. Over to Last.FM to cut out the Similar Artist Radio Station, slap it on Webwag, throw in a band and were off into streaming music. All done in a the wink of a WOD.
Another European telecommunications (Swisscom) subsidiary company is tuning into the blogosphere and receiving funds for doing so. coComments is one of a handful of start-ups who are trying to help people keep tabs on their – or other peoples – online conversations by tracking & mining comments posted on the Net. In coComments case this is done by means of a Firefox extension or, if you don’t use FF, a Bookmarklet added to your browser toolbar.
Yesterday’s Swisscom press release, announcing a 40% buy-in by Japanese VC Company Netage Capital Partners, Inc. is a vote of confidence for their 10 month old fledgling.
As for the other similar sites like co.mments.com and commentful.com – coComments does seem to be the most complete package. If you think otherwise or have an opinion on these services, let me know.
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After the OpenWengo project – ‘A VoIP provider whose goal is to make standards-based SIP telephony available to all’, Wengo, a subsidiary of the French telecommunications company Neuf Cegetel, has begun flirting with the blogosphere.
WengoVisio, a video communication widget has gone live in limited public beta – limited to the first 10,000 (6,000 as of 30.12.06) subscriptions.
“This Innovation in the virtual communications universe should please the 63 million bloggers in the world by offering them a new proximity with their visitors. The blog phenomena will be given a new dimension by WendoVisio ; no need to leave a comment to react to a post, everyone can interact and speak in Visio with the blogger if he or she is online”, explains David Britton, originator of Wengo.
There is nothing new in videophones as you know; Live messenger, Yahoo messenger or Skype planted their tents on this ground a good while back, which is no doubt why Wengo are targeting the blogosphere. There is no programme/plug-in/software needed to download, it’s installed by a simple cut & paste of HTML code like most widgets, so if you want to Pimp up your blog with a live audio & video widget this might be one to try out – WengoVisio are still taking subscriptions.
It remains to be seen if WengoVisio will have the same success as other blog widgets like MyBloLog for example.
via clubic.com