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<?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>The TechStars Network</title><link>http://networks.feedburner.com/TechStarsNetwork</link><description>Blogs by TechStars mentors and the companies that TechStars has funded.</description><language>en-us</language><generator>FeedBurner Networks http://www.feedburner.com</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:51:28 -0500</lastBuildDate><image><link>http://www.techstars.org/blog</link><url>http://www.techstars.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/techstars150widthcolor.jpg</url><title>TechStars</title></image><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechStarsNetwork" type="application/rss+xml" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>841058</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://www.feedburner.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><feedburner:browserFriendly>This is the spliced feed for "The TechStars Network". Add this to your news reader to receive updates about the network.</feedburner:browserFriendly><item><title>Running for your life [TechStars]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TechstarsBlog/~3/344205765/</link><category>Uncategorized</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">davidcohen</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:51:28 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.techstars.org/2008/07/23/running-for-your-life/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.gyminee.com">Gyminee</a>, one of our new companies in the 2008 class is cranking. It&#8217;s a health and fitness tracking site combined with social networking to improve motivation and provide accountability. They&#8217;re live and have really started to take off. Recently, they launched their new &#8220;<a href="http://blog.gyminee.com/2008/7/21/gyminee-challenges-are-here">challenges</a>&#8221; feature which lets you set up your own activity or weight loss challenge, invite your friends, and track a leaderboard like you see below for the running challenge that&#8217;s going on right now at TechStars.</p>
<p>My money is on <a href="http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/marathons/">Feld</a> (aka Mr. Marathon).  As you can see, he&#8217;s in second place as of right now. What a slacker.</p>
<p><script src="http://www.gyminee.com/widgets/challenge_leaders/24?c=blue&amp;l=10&amp;u=20202&amp;w=247" type="text/javascript"></script></p>

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</div>]]></content:encoded><description>Gyminee, one of our new companies in the 2008 class is cranking. It&amp;#8217;s a health and fitness tracking site combined with social networking to improve motivation and provide accountability. They&amp;#8217;re live and have really started to take off. Recently, they launched their new &amp;#8220;challenges&amp;#8221; feature which lets you set up your own activity or weight [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.techstars.org/2008/07/23/running-for-your-life/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://www.techstars.org/2008/07/23/running-for-your-life/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tip: Getting the right number of results [filtrbox blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filtrbox/~3/344091893/</link><category>Tips</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">pcameron</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:13:11 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/23/tip-getting-the-right-number-of-results/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Just created a killer Filtr but not seeing any results?  What gives?  Below are a few suggestions to help you get your result set dialed in.</p>
<p>1) Adjust the Date and FiltrRank sliders</p>
<p>The two sliders at the top of the article pane are designed to help you restrict your view and see just the relevant information.  They work great and any changes are shown immediately but be careful because being too restrictive can leave you with no articles in your view.</p>
<p><img src="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screen-capture-12.png" alt="Slider Bars" /></p>
<p>2) Select or de-select sources to help control the noise.  The more sources you selected the more articles we will find.  Twitter and Friendfeed can be controlled at either the global or filtr level.  They can both be a bit noisy so include them at your discretion. Sources can be de-selected by clicking on each radio button to uncheck.</p>
<p><img src="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screen-capture-13.png" alt="Sources" /></p>
<p>3) Selecting Filtrs - Make sure you have only the filtr topics you wish to view enabled by selecting their radio buttons.  In this example I will see only the articles for Red Sox, Mac and money.</p>
<p><a href="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screen-capture-5.png" title="Filtr View"><img src="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screen-capture-51.png" alt="select" /></a></p>
<p>4) In the case of too few articles, you may have overly restrictive search terms.  Remember the system is designed to persistently search for the key word or words in your filtr.  In the example below I will only see articles that include all 5 terms biology, marine, whales, dolphins and plankton.  To be more general you could replace the ANDs with ORs in which case you would get articles that have (biology and marine) or (biology and whales) or (biology and dolphins) or (biology and plankton).</p>
<p><a href="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screen-capture-6.png" title="Specfic"><img src="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screen-capture-61.png" alt="specific" /></a></p>
<p>5)  Filtrbox is still searching for new articles.  Unlike web search engines Filtrbox performs persistent search.  This means that Filtrbox will continually search for articles that contain your Filtr until you modify or delete it.  Our searches may take a little time to search the far ends of the internet and start bringing results back to you.</p>
<p><a href="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screen-capture-7.png" title="Searching"><img src="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/screen-capture-7.png" alt="Searching" /></a></p>
<p>If you have tried these adjustments and you are still not seeing the results you think you should, give us a shout at support@filtrbox.com.</p>

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1) Adjust the Date and FiltrRank sliders
The two sliders at the top of the article pane are designed to help you restrict your view and see just the relevant information.  [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/23/tip-getting-the-right-number-of-results/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/23/tip-getting-the-right-number-of-results/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Betas: IntenseDebate Google Reader &amp; Bloglines Plugins for Firefox 2 &amp; 3 [IntenseDebate - Official Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Intensedebatecom/~3/343740573/</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">michael</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:16:24 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/?p=423</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>All right, here&#8217;s the skinny.  We&#8217;re getting ready to release our new <a href="http://reader.google.com">Google Reader</a> and <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/">Bloglines</a> plugins for <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html">Firefox 2 &#038; 3</a> and we&#8217;re looking for beta testers.  </p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t your normal run of the mill RSS reader integration.  Our Google Reader and Bloglines plugins allow you to not only access IntenseDebate comments, but also respond to them directly from your reader!  Amazing right?!?!  I&#8217;ve got to tell you, I&#8217;ve been playing around with our Google Reader plugin on Firefox 3 for the past week and it is so choice.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in testing out our betas please drop me a line at <a href="mailto:support@intensedebate.com">support@intensedebate.com</a> and we&#8217;ll get you all set up.</p>
<p>Start getting excited!<br />
Michael &#038; the fellas at IntenseDebate</p>
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This isn&amp;#8217;t your normal run of the mill RSS reader integration.  Our Google Reader and Bloglines plugins allow you to not only access IntenseDebate [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/07/23/new-betas-intensedebate-google-reader-bloglines-plugins-for-firefox-2-3/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/07/23/new-betas-intensedebate-google-reader-bloglines-plugins-for-firefox-2-3/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Feature: Bring Your Online Profiles Into the Real World [Brightkite Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~3/338526085/</link><category>Product</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brady Becker</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:30:43 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/17/new-feature-bring-your-online-profiles-into-the-real-world/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Now you can let those around you discover who you are in the online world, while you are out in the the real world. Put your profiles in your pocket by adding your various online services to your Brightkite profile. </p>
<p><strong>iPhone and mobile profiles showing &#8220;Elsewhere&#8221; links</strong></p>
<p><img style="margin-right: 30px;" src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/profile.png' alt='brightkite profiles' /><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/m1-profiles.png' alt='m1-profiles.png' /></p>
<p><strong>To add your services to your Brightkite profile:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Go to Account Settings and click your Profile tab.</li>
<li> Choose a service and follow the instructions on how to enter your username</li>
<li> Click Add</li>
<li> Choose another service to add</li>
<li>When you have added the desired services click Save. </li>
</ol>
<p><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/social-links.png' alt='brightkite' /></p>
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iPhone and mobile profiles showing &amp;#8220;Elsewhere&amp;#8221; links

To add your services to your Brightkite profile:

Go to [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/17/new-feature-bring-your-online-profiles-into-the-real-world/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/17/new-feature-bring-your-online-profiles-into-the-real-world/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Brightkite API Beta Available [Brightkite Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~3/332300950/</link><category>API</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brady Becker</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:59:01 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/brightkite-api-beta-available/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Brightkite is all about sharing your location and meeting new people based on the places you visit, and the latest way of doing that is with the Brightkite API. Using the Brightkite API you can add a location component to any site, social network, or application.</p>
<p>We are looking for developers interested in helping us beta test the Brightkite API. If you would like access to our API please send a request to <a href="mailto:api@brightkite.com">api@brightkite.com</a>. </p>
<p>We are excited about the potential mashups and third party integrations. One of the very first sites to integrate the Brightkite API is <a href="http://socialthing.com/">Socialthing!</a>. Socialthing! is a terrific app that lets you see everything that is going on with your friends from all the sites you use, all in one spot. We are really excited about Socialthing implementing our API. If you haven&#8217;t checked it out yet, we highly recommend you do. </p>
<p><strong>User stream on Socialthing showing Brightkite updates</strong></p>
<p><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/socialthing-api.png' alt='Socialthing-brightkiteAPI' /><br />
<strong><br />
Brightkite configuration options on Socialthing</strong></p>
<p><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/socialthingapi2.png' alt='socialthingapi2.png' /></p>
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~4/332300950" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>Brightkite is all about sharing your location and meeting new people based on the places you visit, and the latest way of doing that is with the Brightkite API. Using the Brightkite API you can add a location component to any site, social network, or application.
We are looking for developers interested in helping us beta [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/brightkite-api-beta-available/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/brightkite-api-beta-available/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Check In Anywhere on Earth with SPOT GPS Tracker [Brightkite Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~3/332233909/</link><category>GPS</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brady Becker</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:45:09 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/check-in-anywhere-on-earth-with-spot-gps-tracker/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Between meetings yesterday Martin added support for our shiny new toy, the <a href="http://findmespot.com">SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker</a>. Living in Colorado I spend a lot of time in the backcountry, so having the ability to check in far beyond the reach of wifi/cell signals is something I am pretty excited about.  At the touch of a button the SPOT will check you in anywhere on earth via satellite. (It even <a href="http://brightkite.com/objects/68c613a219aeb1801dab0cd54b450d00c20da9f1">works in the air</a>)</p>
<p>To check in with your SPOT on Brightkite simply add your bkite.com email (<em>yourcode</em>@bkite.com) to your recipient list on the SPOT website. Your SPOT checkins will now appear on Brightkite. </p>
<p><img src="http://brightkite.com/images/photo_object/photos/4/3/437644/photo.jpg" alt="SPOT-brightkite" /></p>
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~4/332233909" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>Between meetings yesterday Martin added support for our shiny new toy, the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker. Living in Colorado I spend a lot of time in the backcountry, so having the ability to check in far beyond the reach of wifi/cell signals is something I am pretty excited about.  At the touch of a [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/check-in-anywhere-on-earth-with-spot-gps-tracker/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/check-in-anywhere-on-earth-with-spot-gps-tracker/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Where is the Native Brightkite iPhone App? [Brightkite Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~3/332196331/</link><category>iPhone</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Martin</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:11:17 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/where-is-the-native-brightkite-iphone-app/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>With the release of the App Store today, those of you with iPhones have probably been searching for the native Brightkite iPhone app, and wondered why they couldn&#8217;t find it. The truth is, while we would have loved to have the app available today, we decided not to release it just yet. Here is why:</p>
<ol>
<li><b>We don&#8217;t have a 3G iPhone to test on yet.</b> More specifically, we&#8217;d like to see how well the GPS in the new phones works.</li>
<li><b>We don&#8217;t want to release something that&#8217;s not rock-solid.</b> And by rock-solid, we don&#8217;t mean crashing, but rock-solid from a usability standpoint. The app should be as easy to use as possible. We have some very ambitious goals concerning the user interface, but getting it just right takes time and we&#8217;re just not quite there yet.</li>
</ol>
<p>Of course, this doesn&#8217;t make you any less anxious to try our app. So when is it coming out? While we don&#8217;t have an exact release date, we&#8217;ll commit to having it available by the end of the month. Thanks for being patient, and we think you&#8217;re really going to like what the app has to offer.</p>
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We [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/where-is-the-native-brightkite-iphone-app/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/where-is-the-native-brightkite-iphone-app/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>What Would You Do For an IntenseDebate T-Shirt? [IntenseDebate - Official Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Intensedebatecom/~3/332117752/</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">michael</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:13:21 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/?p=411</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>So Klondike is having this <a href="http://www.klondikecontest.com/Home.aspx">What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar? video contest</a> where the winner gets $100K.  Let&#8217;s face it, there&#8217;s no way you&#8217;re going to win that contest.  But IntenseDebate is giving you the opportunity to still be a winner!</p>
<p><strong>Introducing IntenseDebate&#8217;s What Would You Do For an IntenseDebate T-Shirt Comment Contest</strong> where the winner gets <strike>$100</strike> NO!, <strike>$50</strike> NO!, <strike>$25</strike> NO!&#8230; to feed their ego and an IntenseDebate t-shirt.  </p>
<p>The rules are simple: leave us a comment detailing what you would do for an IntenseDebate t-shirt and if it&#8217;s t-shirt worthy then it shall be yours!  Seeing as this is the first batch of t&#8217;s, we&#8217;ve got a limited supply.  </p>
<p>You don&#8217;t even want to know what these folks had to do to get a shirt&#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://intensedebate.com/images/t-shirts_collage.jpg" alt="IntenseDebate_T-Shirts" /></p>
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Introducing IntenseDebate&amp;#8217;s What Would You Do For an IntenseDebate T-Shirt [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/07/10/what-would-you-do-for-an-intensedebate-t-shirt/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/07/10/what-would-you-do-for-an-intensedebate-t-shirt/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New (old) feature!  Twitter @replies and Directs [Socialthing! blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/socialthing/~3/331838338/</link><category>General</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Matt</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:57:27 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.socialthing.com/?p=97</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Hey everyone&#8230;just wanted to let you know that we&#8217;ve put @replies and Directs back into Socialthing!  Head over to the &#8220;Settings&#8221; page, then navigate to your Twitter account and click &#8220;Settings&#8221;.  The options should be right there&#8230;</p>
<p>We&#8217;re for sure excited to have this functionality back in, as it was one of our favorite features before 2.0.  Hope you enjoy it!</p>
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We&amp;#8217;re for sure excited to have this functionality back in, as it was one of our favorite [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/07/10/new-old-feature-twitter-replies-and-directs/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:awareness>http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=socialthing&amp;itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.socialthing.com%2F2008%2F07%2F10%2Fnew-old-feature-twitter-replies-and-directs%2F</feedburner:awareness><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/07/10/new-old-feature-twitter-replies-and-directs/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Just added Brightkite, Plurk, Seesmic, Guitar Hero and more! [Socialthing! blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/socialthing/~3/331270695/</link><category>General</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Matt</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:59:10 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.socialthing.com/?p=96</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Hey everyone&#8230;we just put up a new update that includes a few new services and a few new features&#8230;</p>
<p><b>New services:</b></p>
<p><img src="https://socialthing.com/images/icons/services/brightkite.png" alt="Brightkite" style="vertical-align:top;margin-right:4px;border:none;padding:0;" /><a href="http://brightkite.com" target="_blank">Brightkite</a> - A really awesome service where you share your location with your friends.  Our integration means that you&#8217;ll be able to see what your friends are posting, where they&#8217;re checking in, and the notes they&#8217;re writing.  Soon you&#8217;ll be able to post to Brightkite, as well as post comments on items.</p>
<p><img src="https://socialthing.com/images/icons/services/plurk.png" alt="Plurk" style="vertical-align:top;margin-right:4px;border:none;padding:0;" /><a href="http://plurk.com" target="_blank">Plurk</a> - All the rage with the Twitterati, Plurk is a service that adds a few new flavors to the microblogging genre.  Horizontal timeline scrolling, emotions, etc. are just a few of the niceties about it.  As soon as Plurk offers an API, we&#8217;ll be able to post new Plurk messages back and view friends Plurks.  Until then, we hope you at least enjoy publishing your Plurk status in your personal profile!</p>
<p><img src="https://socialthing.com/images/icons/services/seesmic.png" alt="Seesmic" style="vertical-align:top;margin-right:4px;border:none;padding:0;" /><a href="http://seesmic.com" target="_blank">Seesmic</a> - With a CEO like <a href="http://twitter.com/loiclemeur" target="_blank">Loic LeMeur</a> how could your service not be the bees knees?  Seesmic is like Twitter, but for video&#8230;post a short video and create a conversation around it!  Seesmic&#8217;s integration means that we can show you all of your friends&#8217; stuff (even their private replies) and publish your own videos on your profile too.  You can even reply to other videos right within their player!</p>
<p><img src="https://socialthing.com/images/icons/services/guitarhero3.png" alt="Guitar Hero" style="vertical-align:top;margin-right:4px;border:none;padding:0;" /><a href="http://community.guitarhero.com" target="_blank">Guitar Hero</a> - Alright, I&#8217;ve been excited about this one forever.  It&#8217;s easy&#8230;just integrate your console (XBOX360, PS3 or Wii) into the Guitar Hero site, then tell us your User ID and we&#8217;ll publish how well you&#8217;ve been doing lately on your tunes.  Stats include star rating, percentage, oh, and what song you played in the first place.  This has been a lot of fun to test internally (IE &#8230;just playing a lot of Guitar Hero under the guise of work).</p>
<p><b>New features:</b></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve added a few new keyboard shortcuts:<br />
M - Me (your profile)<br />
J - Previous tab<br />
K - Next tab<br />
C - Close current tab</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a new indication whenever you&#8217;re looking at new items versus stuff you may have seen before.  Basically we add a yellow background color to &#8220;new&#8221; stuff.  But this is a work in progress&#8230;meaning please tell us if you don&#8217;t like it&#8230;and give us a better idea!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve changed around the Services page just a bit.  We&#8217;ve now added icons indicating what kinds of things we do with the various accounts you&#8217;re adding.  If you see <img src="https://socialthing.com/images/icons/user.png" alt="User" style="vertical-align:top;border:none;padding:0;" /> then that means we&#8217;ll probably be bringing in YOUR activities.  If you see <img src="https://socialthing.com/images/icons/friends.png" alt="Friends" style="vertical-align:top;border:none;padding:0;" /> then we&#8217;ve got your friends&#8217; updates and last, <img src="https://socialthing.com/images/icons/post.png" alt="Post" style="vertical-align:top;border:none;padding:0;" /> means that you&#8217;re going to be able to post stuff to that service.  In addition to this, we&#8217;re also clarifying any time that we&#8217;re needing to ask for your password.  Definitely not something we want to do, but it&#8217;s a necessary thing for some parts of our app to work.</p>
<p>We really hope you like all the new additions, and very soon we&#8217;ll be adding all kinds of new stuff&#8230;new services, features, etc!</p>
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New services:
Brightkite - A really awesome service where you share your location with your friends.  Our integration means that you&amp;#8217;ll be able to see what your friends are posting, where they&amp;#8217;re checking in, and the notes [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/07/09/just-added-brightkite-plurk-seesmic-guitar-hero-and-more/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:awareness>http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=socialthing&amp;itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.socialthing.com%2F2008%2F07%2F09%2Fjust-added-brightkite-plurk-seesmic-guitar-hero-and-more%2F</feedburner:awareness><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/07/09/just-added-brightkite-plurk-seesmic-guitar-hero-and-more/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Launch Coverage [filtrbox blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filtrbox/~3/330250298/</link><category>buzz</category><category>company news</category><category>filtrbox</category><category>information overload</category><category>product launch</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ari</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:45:54 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/08/launch-coverage/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/fb_dark_trans.png" alt="logo tran" align="right" hspace="3" vspace="3" />Filtrbox went public last Monday, and has been getting some nice pickups in the press and blogworld in the last week.  Thanks to everyone for your support and feedback so far!  The team really turned themselves inside-out to pull the feedback into the release and get it ready in time (thanks guys!).</p>
<p>It has been wonderful to hear from so many people and see the coverage. We love talking to customers and learning how people use Filtrbox to deal with Information Overload and monitor important topics.  If you haven&#8217;t had a chance please <a href="https://www.filtrbox.com/dashboard/" title="login" target="_blank">login</a> to your account to see the newest version and keep the feedback and suggestions coming - we are listening!</p>
<p>Some of our recent coverage:</p>
<p>Inc Magazine - <a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080701/horse-race-searching-for-the-next-digg.html" title="inc - horse race">Searching for the next Digg</a></p>
<p>Network World - <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/063008web1.html" title="network world">Managing the information flood </a></p>
<p>VentureBeat - <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/06/got-information-overload-get-filtrbox-but-dont-pay-quite-yet/">Got information overload?</a></p>
<p>Mashable (podcast) - <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/01/filtrbox/">Offload your Info Over-Load </a></p>
<p>Fortune Small Business - <a href="http://futureboy.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2008/07/07/saving-small-business-from-information-overload/">Saving Small Business from Information Overload </a></p>

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It has been wonderful [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/08/filtrbox-launch-coverage/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/08/filtrbox-launch-coverage/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Filtrbox welcomes Patrick Cameron [filtrbox blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filtrbox/~3/330058079/</link><category>company news</category><category>filtrbox</category><category>hiring</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ari</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:53:56 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/08/filtrbox-hires-patrick-cameron/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/headshot.jpg" alt="patrick headshot" align="right" height="157" hspace="3" width="108" /> We are excited to announce the addition of Patrick Cameron to the Filtrbox team. Patrick will be heading up our Sales and Marketing efforts going forward is just as psyched as we are about joining us at this important time. With our public debut barely in the rear-view mirror, you can bet there is plenty for him to do!</p>
<p>Patrick has a broad base of experience in sales, product management, and marketing and shares the same entrepreneurial passion as the rest of the team. He was at Akamai and Accenture during the go-go days for both companies and understands how to take great care of customers and grow a business. Bonus: He can keep up with Ari on a bike too <img src='http://filtrbox.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>

<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/filtrbox?a=eaEPqz"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/filtrbox?i=eaEPqz" border="0"></img></a></p>]]></content:encoded><description>We are excited to announce the addition of Patrick Cameron to the Filtrbox team. Patrick will be heading up our Sales and Marketing efforts going forward is just as psyched as we are about joining us at this important time. With our public debut barely in the rear-view mirror, you can bet there is [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/08/filtrbox-hires-patrick-cameron/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/07/08/filtrbox-hires-patrick-cameron/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Admin Features: Close Comments On Posts &amp; Commenter Account Stipulations [IntenseDebate - Official Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Intensedebatecom/~3/325814454/</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">michael</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:09:02 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/07/03/new-admin-features-close-comments-on-posts-commenter-account-stipulations/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>We’re pleased to answer your calls and release two new admin features this week.  Big ups to our dev team for keeping the good stuff coming and for keepin’ it real. </p>
<p><strong><br />
Close Comments On Posts</strong><br />
Let’s face it sometimes debates just get too intense.  Honestly, it’s a health risk – blood pressures start rising, heart rates elevate…look we don’t need anyone keeling over from a heart attack.  We don’t want to have to put a disclaimer on IntenseDebate that you should have Bayer Aspirin on hand when using our product.  We’re concerned about your health.  IntenseDebate cares.</p>
<p>So we thought it would be a good idea to take some preventative measures and give blog publishers the ability to close comments on posts.  This feature can be accessed in your IntenseDebate comments on your blog post under the &#8220;Admin Options&#8221; tab.</p>
<p><strong>Commenter Account Stipulations</strong><br />
In staying with the theme of keepin’ it real, blog publishers can now set commenter account stipulations.  That’s just fancy talk for saying that you can opt to require all of your commenters to create IntenseDebate accounts in order to comment on your posts.  Now you can choose whether or not you want to allow anonymous comments on your posts.  If you’ve had issues with spammers or repeat anonymous comment offenders, you can require them to create an account and keep the debate real.  This feature is available in your blog settings page at <a href="http://intensedebate.com">IntenseDebate.com</a> (login, select the tab named after your blog, followed by the “Settings” sub-tab).</p>
<p>As always, we’d love your feedback.</p>
<p>Word out,<br />
The Fellas at IntenseDebate</p>
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Close Comments On Posts
Let’s face it sometimes debates just get too intense.  Honestly, it’s a health risk – blood pressures start rising, [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/07/03/new-admin-features-close-comments-on-posts-commenter-account-stipulations/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/07/03/new-admin-features-close-comments-on-posts-commenter-account-stipulations/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Never Mash Alone! EventVue connects the SummerMash Tour [EventVue]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eventvue/~3/325207957/</link><category>Uncategorized</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rob Johnson</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:08:32 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.eventvue.com/blog/?p=26</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mashable.com/us-summer-tour-2008/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27" title="mashableustour" src="http://beta.eventvue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/mashableustour.jpg" alt="SummerMash Tour" width="464" height="127" /></a></p>
<p>We&#8217;re pretty excited over here at the EventVue headquarters to announce that EventVue will be powering the <a id="kjxw" title="Mashable SummerMash" href="http://mashable.com/us-summer-tour-2008/">Mashable SummerMash</a> tour.  We&#8217;re big fans of <a id="eeii" title="Mashable" href="http://mashable.com/">Mashable</a> and <a id="tuof" title="Pete" href="http://twitter.com/mashable">Pete</a> and are pumped about working with them.<br id="gghc" /><br id="gghc0" />The EventVue communities will help people who attend the SummerMash events all across the country to connect with the other attendees.  We&#8217;ve been to a Mashable event before and remember how important it was to us to meet some of the other people attending.  As of today, we&#8217;re joining with Mashable to make this easier.<br id="lsw_0" /><br id="xscn" />We&#8217;re also launching some brand new functionality for the SummerMash tour.  As we announced earlier, we&#8217;ve built some <a id="muhe" title="really cool tools" href="http://beta.eventvue.com/blog/2008/06/05/taking-twitter-at-conferences-to-the-next-level">really cool tools</a> that help you keep up with the conversation at conferences.  We&#8217;re particularly excited about the Twitter functionality &#8212; SummerMash attendees will now be able to follow one twitter stream to see all the tweets from all the attendees at the SummerMash events.  So let&#8217;s all cross our fingers and hope Twitter will work (yeah, it&#8217;s risky) so we can deliver the next step in helping attendees connect at conferences.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/seattlemash"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-28" title="twitterscreenshot" src="http://beta.eventvue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twitterscreenshot.png" alt="SummerMash Seattle Twitter" width="434" height="425" /></a></p>
<p>We&#8217;re launching three of the communities today; the SummerMash Seattle, SummerMash Los Angeles, and SummerMash San Francisco.  If you&#8217;re attending any of these, log in to the EventVue community and get started.  You can follow along on Twitter at <a id="s85c" title="@seattlemash" href="http://twitter.com/seattlemash">@seattlemash</a>, <a id="qddj" title="@lamash" href="http://twitter.com/lamash">@lamash</a>, and <a id="d1lm" title="@sanfranmash" href="http://twitter.com/sanfranmash">@sanfranmash</a>.  You&#8217;ll want to <a id="lfn3" title="register to attend" href="http://mashable.com/us-summer-tour-2008/">register to attend</a> these events at if you&#8217;re in one of the three cities.  Always remember: Don&#8217;t Mash Alone!</p>
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<p>If you didn&#8217;t get that, you probably won&#8217;t get Gnip&#8217;s name either. Regardless, we just started publishing all publicly-viewable Brightkite activity, including checkins, notes and photos, to recently launched data portability service <a href="http://gnipcentral.com/">Gnip</a>. Here&#8217;s what they do in a nutshell:</p>
<p>We push activity to them, and instead of us getting bombarded with requests from social aggregation services every few seconds (SocialThing, FriendFeed, etc.), we can point them to Gnip and let them deal with it. The big upsides for aggregation services: no rate-limiting, and a uniform way to know when new data is available.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a developer, have a look at Gnip: it might just make your life a whole lot easier.</p>
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If you didn&amp;#8217;t get that, you probably won&amp;#8217;t get Gnip&amp;#8217;s name either. Regardless, we just started publishing all publicly-viewable Brightkite activity, including checkins, notes and photos, to recently launched data portability service Gnip. Here&amp;#8217;s what they do in a nutshell:
We push activity to them, and instead of us getting bombarded with requests [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/01/aggregate-brightkite-data-through-gnip/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/01/aggregate-brightkite-data-through-gnip/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Features: Customize your Tweets &amp; Master Switch for Notifications [Brightkite Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~3/323483879/</link><category>Product</category><category>Twitter</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brady Becker</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:28:42 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/30/new-features-customize-your-tweets-master-switch-for-notifications/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Over the weekend we added some subtle new features. </p>
<p><strong>Master Switch for Notifications</strong><br />
We have added a master switch that will turn off/on all SMS and email notifications. </p>
<p>To turn off/on all your notifications:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to Account Settings and click your Notifications tab.</li>
<li> Next adjust the master switches at the top of the page as desired. </li>
<li>Click Save. </li>
</ol>
<p><img style="margin-bottom: 15px;" src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/master_switch.png' alt='master_switch.png' /></p>
<p><strong>Customize What You Send to Twitter</strong><br />
By popular request you can now customize what you send to Twitter from Brightkite. </p>
<p>To customize your Tweets:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to Account Settings and click on the Sharing tab.</li>
<li>Scroll down and click the customize link located next to the Twitter posting option.</li>
<li>Enter the variables of the stuff you would like to send to Twitter</li>
<li>Click submit.</li>
<li>When you are done with your customization click save.</li>
</ol>
<p><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/custom_twitter1.png' alt='Custom Brightkite Twitter Window' /></p>
<p><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/customize_window1.png' alt='customize_window1.png' /></p>
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Master Switch for Notifications
We have added a master switch that will turn off/on all SMS and email notifications. 
To turn off/on all your notifications:

Go to Account Settings and click your Notifications tab.
 Next adjust the master switches at the top of the page as desired. 
Click [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/30/new-features-customize-your-tweets-master-switch-for-notifications/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/30/new-features-customize-your-tweets-master-switch-for-notifications/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Filtrbox announces public release, new features and more! [filtrbox blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filtrbox/~3/323055356/</link><category>company news</category><category>product info</category><category>"media monitoring"</category><category>alerts</category><category>buzz</category><category>filtrbox</category><category>information overload</category><category>news</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ari</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:20:29 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/06/30/filtrboxlaunchessolvesinformationoverload/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Information Overload and overpriced media monitoring are now a thing of the past! We are thrilled to announce that the Filtrbox media monitoring service is now available to the public. The service emerges from private beta today with an entirely new user interface and a number of new features.From the press release&#8230;<br />
<blockquote>Filtrbox (<a href="http://www.filtrbox.com">www.filtrbox.com</a>), the media monitoring service of choice for savvy professionals, today announced a disruptive new media monitoring service designed for business professionals that rely on the Internet for gaining knowledge and a competitive edge.  The beta release of the service has been embraced by thousands of users and has received worldwide acclaim across the blogosphere.  Now the service is available to anyone wanting a streamlined solution to monitor, analyze and share content with peers.  Filtrbox eliminates the need for multiple tools reducing cost while increasing productivity. (read the web release <a href="http://www.filtrbox.com/docs/Filtrbox_smr.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>)   </p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s New:
<ul>
<li>Entirely new Flex user interface</li>
<li>Additional sources, including twitter and FriendFeed monitoring</li>
<li>Search, Sort, and Preferences</li>
<li>iPhone formatted Daily Briefing emails</li>
<li>Flagging of important articles</li>
<li>Google Alerts import</li>
<li>Drag and Drop Filtr management</li>
<li>Pro and Team subscription versions</li>
<li>Content widgets based on custom RSS feeds</li>
<li>More&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>Filtrbox has also announced three versions of the service:<strong>Filtrbox:</strong> 5 Filtrs and 15 days of article history - <strong>FREE! </strong><strong>Filtrbox Pro:</strong> 25 Filtrs and 45 days of article history - <strong>$20/month</strong><strong>Filtrbox Team:</strong> 100 Filtrs and 1 year of article history, 6 users - <strong>$100/month</strong>Sign up today at <a href="http://www.filtrbox.com">http://www.filtrbox.com</a> (no CC required!). We hope you&#8217;ll agree our easy-to-use rich web application and powerful monitoring features help address information overload and provide a compelling, cost-effective media monitoring solution for anyone who needs to stay in-the-know and on top of their business, competition, or market. Work smarter, save time, and let Filtrbox do the work of monitoring the world&#8217;s information for you.For a quick overview, just check out the updated <a href="http://www.filtrbox.com/video.php">screencasts</a>!</p>

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<p><a href='http://brightkite.com/objects/65b4d000f569a6904b57add0d2475a04fa10afee'><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/photo.jpg' alt='Flying Dog Beer' /></a></p>
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<p><strong><em>From: David Cohen<br />
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:12 AM<br />
To: David Brown<br />
Subject: boomtown</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I’m just thinking this can be one of the boomtown businesses.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Providing seed capital to startups with only an idea.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The concept:<br />
1) We take applications on the web site. Only seed stage companies need apply (those with passionate people and an idea, but no way to get going or who are not sure they can do it on their own – maybe just need a kick in the ass and someone to believe in them)</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>2) We fly or drive to interview the ones that sound good (perhaps organizing small tours), or have them come here on our dime.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>3) We offer the promising ones $10k for a 2% non-controlling, non-board seat interest of their company. They have to come to Boulder for 2-3 months to start the company up.<br />
a.  They can work in our offices, or in a hotel, or wherever they want. We provide internet connections, a little office space, etc.<br />
b.       They can use the 10k however they want.<br />
c.       We have the option to buy 2% more of the company for another 10k at the end of the 2-3 month period.<br />
d.       We provide free consulting while they’re here including product feedback, how-to advice, etc.<br />
e.       We organize weekly (or bi-weekly) dinners with investors, IP lawyers, tech experts, etc (basically using our contacts to get people to donate a little time).</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>4) Based on how they do while they’re here, we decide if we want to invest more or not when they leave. This should be easy, since you’re really evaluating the people as much as the product (do they work all hours, do they have passion, etc)</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>5) If they want, they can stay in Boulder and grow their company here, working within our office space (renting it). Perhaps we have some kind of “space, connectivity + consulting” lease rate.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The only drawback I can think of is that we’d probably need to get a slightly nicer office to really attract companies. We’d have to look successful, and have an environment with couches, whiteboards, etc for them to work in optionally. But we could grow that over time once we get a few and have a good feeling that it’s working.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I am thinking I’ll start working on the web site. Are you cool with putting this kind of info/offer up on the boomtown site? We don’t have to actually do it, I suppose, but we can at least start taking applications and see what’s what. Maybe generate a little word of mouth somehow, and who knows. We can start with a summer program this year. Sublet or rent some open office space from this place for just 3 months or something. Start trying to spread the word a little bit on college campuses, especially CU, CSU, DU, etc.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Thoughts? I think it sounds really cool. Yeah, we have no idea what we’re doing.</em></strong></p>
<p>So that&#8217;s how we came up with this crazy idea just 868 days ago. I remember putting up the basic web site later that same day. Obviously, it has evolved since then. Now we have <em>some</em> sense of what we&#8217;re doing, for example. We didn&#8217;t launch TechStars that summer - it just wasn&#8217;t enough time to raise the necessary funding and morph the idea into what would ultimately make it successful - being <a href="http://www.techstars.org/mentors">mentorship driven</a>. But we got there the next summer, and we&#8217;ve been learning and evolving ever since.</p>

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<p><strong>HTML Parsing</strong><br />
<img src="http://intensedebate.com/images/blog/html_formatting.png" alt="Screenshot" style="float: right;" />We&#8217;re proud to answer the call and release HTML support in IntenseDebate comments.  If you&#8217;ve got the urge to add a little self-expression, feel free to add some bold or italic characters.  You can also customize your links and add some photos to your comments.  You can allow your readers to add images to their comments by enabling this option in your Blog Settings page (login into <a href="http://intensedebate.com">IntenseDebate.com</a>, select the tab named after your blog followed by the &#8220;Settings&#8221; sub-tab).  The option is located on the right side of the page under the heading &#8220;Display Settings.&#8221;  Image tags are disabled by default.  IntenseDebate supports the following HTML tags - &lt;a&gt;, &lt;b&gt;, &lt;i&gt;, &lt;u&gt;, &lt;em&gt;, &lt;p&gt;, &lt;blockquote&gt;, &lt;br&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;, &lt;strike&gt;, &lt;img&gt;.</p>
<p><strong>Popular Blog Posts Widget</strong><br />
<img src="http://intensedebate.com/images/blog/blog_posts_widget.png" alt="Screenshot" class="borderbox-r" />We released a new widget that displays the most popular blog posts on your blog (as determined by the number of comments made per post).  By displaying this widget on your home page, you&#8217;ll be able to breath new life into your past blog posts and drive some fresh traffic their way.  This widget is the next step in bringing your content into the light (check out our past progress <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/05/20/intense-debate-lijit-indexing-comments-phase-i/">here</a> &#038; <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/06/04/intensedebate-twitter-with-a-cherry-on-top/">here</a>).  This widget can be found on our <a href="http://intensedebate.com/addOns">Add-on&#8217;s page</a> along with our other kick-ass widgets (Blog Stats, Recent Comments, My Recent Comments, and Top Commenters).</p>
<p><strong>New Usernames &#038; Profile URL&#8217;s</strong><br />
After much deliberation, we&#8217;ve decided to take the plunge and update our approach to usernames and profile URL&#8217;s.  <strong>Before we get any further into this, this does not have anything to do with your Display Name - your Display Name has not changed.</strong>  </p>
<p><img src="http://intensedebate.com/images/blog/ID_usernames.png" class="borderbox-r" />Basically we&#8217;ve changed your username from an account ID number to a friendlier name.  Integrating your IntenseDebate account with other 3rd party services like FriendFeed will be a bit easier now.  For those of you that have enabled <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/06/18/friendfeed-comment-retrieval-gravatar-enhancement-optional-profanity-filter-email-notification-update/">IntenseDebate&#8217;s FriendFeed Comment Retrieval</a> you might recall having to enter your IntenseDebate profile URL that consisted of an ugly user account ID number.  Your profile URL is a little prettier and looks a little something like this: <a href="http://intensedebate.com/people/michael">http://intensedebate.com/people/michael</a>.</p>
<p>If you are using our IntenseDebate FriendFeed Comment Retrieval, you do not need to update your IntenseDebate profile URL in your FriendFeed account.  You&#8217;re all set.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the skinny on the new usernames.  Your username has automatically been updated.  Please note that any incompatible characters were removed from your username.  In addition, numbers from your IntenseDebate account ID may have been added to your username in the event that there were duplicate usernames.  Again, this will not affect your IntenseDebate Display Name.</p>
<p>We wanted to let you know about this in case you want to set your username and profile URL to something that fits your style so you can remember it more easily.  To update your username please <a href="http://intensedebate.com/editprofile">edit your IntenseDebate user profile</a>.  We apologize for the inconvenience, but it will be worth it in the long run! </p>
<p>As always, please feel free to drop us a line with any questions or feedback.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
The fellas at IntenseDebate</p>
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<p>To turn on notifications for comments and/or mentions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to Account Settings and click on the Notifications tab.</li>
<li>Scroll down to the Account Notifications section and choose how you would like to be notified.</li>
<li>Click save.</li>
</ol>
<p><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/comment_notifications.png' alt='comment_notifications.png' /></p>
<p>We hope you find this new feature useful. Thanks for your continued support.</p>
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<p>But since we&#8217;re committed to bringing you all kinds of new updates, we threw in something that makes Socialthing! work just a bit more like a desktop app:  Keyboard Shortcuts.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty simple&#8230;the idea was that you can navigate through Socialthing! without your mouse&#8230;or at least navigate a good amount of it.  Basically when you have ST! open, you just hit the corresponding key on your keyboard.  So without further adieu, here they are:</p>
<p>H - Home<br />
P - Post<br />
S - Settings<br />
V - Vote</p>
<p>If our auto-update notification pops up to tell you that you have new updates from some networks, you can hit &#8220;E&#8221; and that will activate the &#8220;See them&#8221;</p>
<p>If you have the Post window open (like if you clicked on it, or hit P to bring it open), you can hit ESC and it will close that window.  (NOTE:  This feature doesn&#8217;t work in Safari if you&#8217;re typing something in the text box, if you want to close, type Tab then ESC)</p>
<p>Also, when you have the post window open, you&#8217;re able to use Tab to go straight to the &#8220;Post&#8221; button, so that you can click Tab then Enter after you&#8217;re done typing, and post something right up.  If you want to select or deselect any networks that you&#8217;re posting to, you can just keep hitting Tab, then Space to check/uncheck the boxes.  (NOTE:  If you&#8217;re trying to do this in Safari on the Mac, you&#8217;ll need to go to System Preferences, Keyboard &#038; Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts and then at the bottom, make sure &#8220;All Controls&#8221; is selected).</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve got a few more keyboard shortcuts that we&#8217;ll be adding in next week, along with some very exciting features, so stay tuned!</p>
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But since we&amp;#8217;re committed to bringing you [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/06/21/new-feature-keyboard-shortcuts/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:awareness>http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=socialthing&amp;itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.socialthing.com%2F2008%2F06%2F21%2Fnew-feature-keyboard-shortcuts%2F</feedburner:awareness><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/06/21/new-feature-keyboard-shortcuts/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Keep Your Comments Inline [Brightkite Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~3/317001158/</link><category>Product</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brady Becker</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:06:10 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/21/keep-your-comments-inline/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Inline Comments</strong><br />
A few days ago we quietly released inline commenting. Prior to this update, you had to visit the object page to view and/or write a comment. Now you can conveniently post a comment without leaving the page. </p>
<p><img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/inline_comments3.png' alt='brightkite inline comments' /></p>
<p>Additionally we have added a “Track this thread” checkbox. If you select this box (selected by default), any comments added to that particular thread will show up in your &#8220;Comments&#8221; tab. This handy feature helps you stay on top of posts you have commented on or threads you are interested in. </p>
<p><strong>Posts Search</strong><br />
We&#8217;ve also added a basic way to search posts. Watch for improvements around this feature in the coming months.<br />
<img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/serach-posts.png' alt='Brightkite Search Posts' /></p>
<p><strong>We hope you enjoy the improvements</strong><br />
We&#8217;re really thrilled about these improvements especially the inline comments. We hope you find these changes as useful as we do. Thanks again for your continued support! Keep watch over the next few weeks for our developer API and native iPhone app.</p>
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Additionally we have added a “Track this thread” checkbox. If you select this box (selected by default), [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/21/keep-your-comments-inline/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/21/keep-your-comments-inline/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>How I use Filtrbox to engage in the conversation [filtrbox blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/filtrbox/~3/315215090/</link><category>random</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ari</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:53:57 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/06/19/using-filtrbox-enage-conversation/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Something happened today that turned out to be a great example of the value of Filtrbox, and it didn&#8217;t hit me until after it happened.</p>
<p>We are quite busy over here these days, but I still want to be participating in the key conversations online that have to do with information overload and noise control. Ironically I was prepping for an important call and running thru my Filtrbox account when <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/info_overload_what_can_we_do.php">this article</a> from ReadWriteWeb caught my eye in the dashboard (high ranking, from today). I clicked on the article and then left it up in a tab since I had the call in a few minutes. I came back an hour later and posted a comment. Then one of our users posted a comment giving us a nice plug. Thanks <a href="http://dannyholland.tumblr.com/">Danny</a>!</p>
<p>The whole discovery-reading-commenting process took me less time than its taking to write this post, and I was able to 1. engage in the conversation about information overload and 2. inadvertently get an independent endorsement for Filtrbox out of it. I would have never gotten to this article if my only mechanism was to subscribe to the RRW RSS feed, because I&#8217;d already be thousands of articles behind&#8230;I don&#8217;t have time to manually search for <strong>information overload</strong> every day, and I don&#8217;t want to comment EVERYWHERE - just on the blogs that have high viewership (and high FiltrRank scores). This is a good example of noise-control at work - I didn&#8217;t miss the important post and was able to comment quickly, but I did not have to manually sift through hundreds of articles to find it.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the article (comments are at the bottom of the post) from ReadWriteWeb on Information Overload. <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/info_overload_what_can_we_do.php#comment-58274">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/info_overload_what_can_we_do.php#comment-58274 </a></p>
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We are quite busy over here these days, but I still want to be participating in the key conversations online that have to do with information overload and noise control. Ironically [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/06/19/using-filtrbox-enage-conversation/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://filtrbox.com/blog/2008/06/19/using-filtrbox-enage-conversation/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Don’t be afraid of maps [TechStars]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TechstarsBlog/~3/315043340/</link><category>Uncategorized</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">SethLevine</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:18:39 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.techstars.org/2008/06/18/dont-be-afraid-of-maps/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p mk_b="0" sth_t="0" mk_i="281">I&#8217;ve spent a bunch of time with a handful of the TechStars teams in the last few weeks. The first week of TechStars was a complete whirlwind (lots of new people to meet, presentations from a bunch of big tech vendors, learning the lay of the land in Boulder, etc).  Now the teams have caught their collective breath and are starting to realize just how quickly the summer rolls by when you&#8217;re creating and building a business.</p>
<p mk_b="0" sth_t="0" mk_i="287">While it&#8217;s fun to run and gun during the early stages of business formation, I&#8217;ve always been insistent that the teams that I work closely with map out their work for the summer early on. It&#8217;s not something that&#8217;s set in stone but is a good guide of where we think we can get to in a 12 week period. These roadmaps get modified on a regular basis throughout the summer but the overall framework generally remains the same (in part because each team is striving to make discernable and demonstrative progress by the final &#8220;pitch&#8221; day at the end of the program).</p>
<p mk_b="0" sth_t="0" mk_i="290">I&#8217;ve been around plenty of start-up businesses. Some have been more methodical than others at planning out where they were going and what they were doing; at collecting data early on in their dev process from prospective users and working that into their product thoughts; at working their dev cycles to allow key issues to be surfaced earlier rather than later; at thinking through scale before their first users hit their system; etc.  Others, not so much. I bet you can guess which ones have the higher success rate&#8230;</p>

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</div>]]></content:encoded><description>I&amp;#8217;ve spent a bunch of time with a handful of the TechStars teams in the last few weeks. The first week of TechStars was a complete whirlwind (lots of new people to meet, presentations from a bunch of big tech vendors, learning the lay of the land in Boulder, etc).  Now the teams have [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.techstars.org/2008/06/18/dont-be-afraid-of-maps/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://www.techstars.org/2008/06/18/dont-be-afraid-of-maps/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>FriendFeed Comment Retrieval, Gravatar Enhancement, Optional Profanity Filter, &amp; Email Notification Update [IntenseDebate - Official Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Intensedebatecom/~3/314890311/</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">michael</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:52:57 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/06/18/friendfeed-comment-retrieval-gravatar-enhancement-optional-profanity-filter-email-notification-update/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>FriendFeed Comment Retrieval</strong><br />
<img src="http://intensedebate.com/images/blog/friendfeed-to-intensedebate.jpg" alt="Screenshot" class="borderbox-r" />Kudos to Jon and Austin on this week&#8217;s feature release.  We&#8217;re really stoked to announce our improved <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/06/11/intensedebate-friendfeed/">FriendFeed support</a>.  At IntenseDebate we strive to keep your content on your blog.  As your content gets more and more fragmented across other 3rd party services, our goal is to bring your blog content back to you.  With this in mind, we&#8217;re really pleased to roll out our latest FriendFeed integration, <strong>FriendFeed Comment Retrieval</strong>.  Now when comments are made in the context of your blog on FriendFeed, IntenseDebate will republish them back on your blog!  All you need to do is enter in your FriendFeed URL and select the option in your <a href="http://intensedebate.com/editprofile">IntenseDebate profile</a>.  </p>
<p>Please keep in mind that this is the first step and there is one immediate limitation - FriendFeed does not support threaded comments which prevents comments made in FriendFeed from being threaded on your blog.  Also, comments made in FriendFeed that are posted in IntenseDebate are tied to your FriendFeed account instead of your IntenseDebate account.  We&#8217;re continuing to make this as seamless as possible and are hoping to have these comments tied to your IntenseDebate account.</p>
<p><strong>Enhanced Gravatar Support</strong><br />
Last week we introduced our <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/06/13/gravatar-support-new-moderation-tools/">Gravatar support</a> and last night we rolled out an improvement that we&#8217;re calling Auto-Grab Gravatar support.  Now we will automatically upload your Gravatar (if you use the service).  Just one less step in pimping your <a href="http://intensedebate.com/editprofile">IntenseDebate profile</a>.  You can choose to use your Gravatar or upload a different profile pic.</p>
<p><strong>Optional Profanity Filter</strong><br />
<img src="http://intensedebate.com/images/blog/profanity-filter.png" alt="Screenshot" class="borderbox-r" />We&#8217;ve also added an optional profanity filter for blog publishers.  Words entered on your profanity list will be replaced with &#8220;****.&#8221; This option can be enabled in your &#8220;Settings&#8221; page (select the tab named after your blog followed by the &#8220;Settings&#8221; sub-tab).  Please note that we have not populated the profanity filter - certain words are obvious (shit, fuck, etc.), but we didn&#8217;t want to make a decision on the borderline words (ass, asshole, etc.).  So we leave it up to you.  Love to hear your thoughts about these borderline words, please leave us a fucking comment.</p>
<p><strong>Email Notification Update</strong><br />
An update on our top priority, stabilizing our email notifications.  Currently we&#8217;ve put a band-aid on it and have we&#8217;ve been sending and receiving email notifications consistently.  We are switching our outbound mail system to prevent any future email glitches.  If you find that you are still not receiving emails, please contact us at support@intensedebate.com.  We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we get this all sorted out.</p>
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<p>The centerpiece of our update today is expanded support for making Socialthing! into a <a href="http://fluidapp.com" target="_blank">Fluid App</a>.  Making ST! more compatible with some of the advanced features of Fluid means that we&#8217;re able to make it feel even more like a desktop app.  (Oh, and if you need an icon for your ST! Fluid app, check out our <a href="http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/05/26/socialthing-logo-for-site-specific-browsers/" target="_blank">blog post</a>.)</p>
<p>First off, we added support for &#8220;dock badges&#8221; which means that whenever new updates come in (since we&#8217;re auto-refreshing now), we notify you on the dock.  See example below:</p>
<p><img src="http://blog.socialthing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/13/badge.jpg" alt="Dock Badge" /></p>
<p>We also built in support for <a href="http://growl.info/" target="_blank">Growl</a>, the Mac OS X system-wide notification system that shows pop-ups whenever stuff happens.  We&#8217;ve made it so that if you have your Socialthing! Fluid app open, when we auto-update, we tell you how many new updates are there, as well as what services they&#8217;re coming from.  We&#8217;ve been testing it for a while now, and it&#8217;s working very well&#8230;check out the example below&#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://blog.socialthing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/13/growl.jpg" alt="Growl Popup" /></p>
<p>Among the new features, we tossed in a few fixes here and there.  Now, when you go to &#8220;post&#8221; to your social networks, we remember which ones you last posted to, and pre-select those only.  Next week will be another big week for us&#8230;full of new services, features, and fixes.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re hoping you&#8217;re enjoying the 2.0 so far!</p>
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The centerpiece of our update today is expanded support for making Socialthing! into a Fluid App.  Making ST! more compatible with some of the advanced features of Fluid means that we&amp;#8217;re able to make [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/06/13/st-20-update-fluidapp-support-and-stability/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:awareness>http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=socialthing&amp;itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.socialthing.com%2F2008%2F06%2F13%2Fst-20-update-fluidapp-support-and-stability%2F</feedburner:awareness><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/06/13/st-20-update-fluidapp-support-and-stability/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Features: Mentions and Comments Streams [Brightkite Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brightkite/~3/311497320/</link><category>Product</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brady Becker</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:19:21 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/13/new-features-mentions-and-comments-streams/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve added some neat new features. </p>
<p><strong>Mentions Stream</strong><br />
<img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/brightkite-mentions2.png' alt='brightkite mentions' /></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve made it easy to see when when people are talking about you, and/or addressing you in their posts.  When people include @<em>yourusername</em> in their posts they will now appear in your mentions stream located under the &#8220;Mentions&#8221; tab. </p>
<p><strong>Comment Stream</strong><br />
<img src='http://blog.brightkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/brightkite-comments1.png' alt='brightkite comments' /></p>
<p>Want to know when people comment on your posts? Now its easy with the comment stream. Located under the &#8220;Comments&#8221; tab, the comments stream helps you keep up on comments on new and old posts alike. </p>
<p>Over the coming weeks watch for comment notifications, inline commenting and the Brightkite developer API. As always let us know what you think of these new streams.</p>
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We&amp;#8217;ve made it easy to see when when people are talking about you, and/or addressing you in their posts.  When people include @yourusername in their posts they will now appear in your mentions stream located under the &amp;#8220;Mentions&amp;#8221; tab. 
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Want to know when people comment on [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/13/new-features-mentions-and-comments-streams/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/06/13/new-features-mentions-and-comments-streams/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Announcing a new partnership with 360conferences!! [EventVue]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eventvue/~3/311342339/</link><category>Uncategorized</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rob Johnson</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:09:54 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.eventvue.com/blog/?p=24</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.360conferences.com/360flex/"><img class="no_border alignnone size-medium wp-image-25" title="360flex_sanjose_logo_002-date" src="http://beta.eventvue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/360flex_sanjose_logo_002-date-300x126.png" alt="" width="300" height="126" /></a></p>
<p>Today we&#8217;re excited to announce a new partnership with <a id="u1n0" title="360conferences" href="http://360conferences.com/">360conferences</a>.  360conferences produces conferences under the sole premise that &#8220;Great Conferences should not be Expensive.&#8221;  We&#8217;re excited that they have chosen EventVue to provide the online community for their conference.  360conferences just wrote about why they chose EventVue on <a href="http://www.360conferences.com/360flex/2008/06/360flex-and-eventvue.html">their blog</a> and we love it!<br id="c30b" /> <br id="c30b0" /> 360conferences has an <a id="ebd0" title="upcoming conference" href="http://www.360conferences.com/360flex/">upcoming conference</a> in August in San Jose focusing on the Flex/Adobe development world.  If you&#8217;re a developer playing around with the new Flex technology including AIR, we highly encourage you to check it out.  Of course, if you are planning to go to the 360|Flex conference, you know that we&#8217;ll be there helping you make the most of your networking experience and inviting you to participate in the EventVue community for 360|Flex.<br id="b3kk" /> <br id="pnwg" /> We&#8217;re excited to be working with 360conferences to help them deliver some killer shows for their attendees.  360|Flex is just the start!</p>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eventvue/~4/311342339" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><description>Today we&amp;#8217;re excited to announce a new partnership with 360conferences.  360conferences produces conferences under the sole premise that &amp;#8220;Great Conferences should not be Expensive.&amp;#8221;  We&amp;#8217;re excited that they have chosen EventVue to provide the online community for their conference.  360conferences just wrote about why they chose EventVue on their blog and we love it!  [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://beta.eventvue.com/blog/2008/06/13/announcing-a-new-partnership-with-360conferences/feed/</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://beta.eventvue.com/blog/2008/06/13/announcing-a-new-partnership-with-360conferences/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Gravatar Support &amp; New Moderation Tools [IntenseDebate - Official Blog]</title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Intensedebatecom/~3/311333720/</link><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">michael</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:52:46 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/06/13/gravatar-support-new-moderation-tools/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re like an assembly line.  Our crew here is cranking out features with the efficiency of a well oiled machine.  Props to Austin for cranking out his first feature release after only working at IntenseDebate for one week!  I wasn&#8217;t kidding&#8230;<a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/06/12/the-latest-addition-to-intensedebate-austin-hallock/">he&#8217;s the LeBron James of developers</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks to Austin&#8217;s hard work, we&#8217;re able to release two more widely requested features.  First up is Gravatar support - you asked for it, so you got it.  Now you can use your Gravatar with IntenseDebate.  To use your Gravatar with IntenseDebate, check out the new option in your <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/editprofile">IntenseDebate profile</a> (screenshot below).  Don&#8217;t know what a Gravatar is?  Learn more <a href="http://www.gravatar.com">here</a>.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://intensedebate.com/images/gravatarScreen.png" alt="Screenshot" class="borderbox-r" /></center></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve also released new moderation features for blog admins.  Admins are now able to ban a commenter from posting on their blog by IP address or email.  This is useful for those pesky spammers and self-promoters that just won&#8217;t leave your blog alone.  This gives admins the ability to ban anonymous commenters who haven&#8217;t created an IntenseDebate account as well.  In addition, admins can also flag posts to be held for moderation based on IP and email.  These new moderation tools are available in your &#8220;Settings&#8221; panel located in your IntenseDebate account.</p>
<p>We love your feedback, so keep the ideas coming!  Job well done Austin!</p>
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