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What do you do the day after you ship your biggest and most important feature release yet? You get back to work and add some of the features you really wanted to include but that didn't make the release.Today's feature: ... (Read More)
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Hot on the heels of our releasing socialmedian's "News-Streaming" features yesterday, we're announcing today the launch of TC50News, your one-stop place for following the TechCrunch50 conference which takes place this coming Monday September 8 to Wednesday September 10, 2008 in... (Read More)
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We're very excited to announce and discuss a number of significant new features that went live on socialmedian just moments ago. This marks the first major feature release since we went "beta" 4 weeks ago, and is in direct response... (Read More)
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This week: * Enable un-registered users to click external links without registering on the site. DONE 8-14-08 * Show a list of popular sources that any user can one-click to add to a News Network DONE 8-14-08 * Enable user who created news network to edit primary topic, go back to News Network wizard to easily add (Read More)
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As previously noted, one of socialmedian users' top feature requests since we went beta a few days ago has been for us to RSS enable all the socialmedian pages so that people can get their sociamedian feeds anywhere they prefer. Makes a lot of sense and is something we had hoped to get done prior to beta but decided not t (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
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Mobile versions of socialmedian consistently scores as one of the top feature requests from our users. So, as we do, we're going to get working right away on some mobile socialmedian apps.To kick start our efforts, we recently held a global socialmedian iphone design contest. The rules were simple. Each designer had 3 wee (Read More)
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Here is a list of where traffic to socialmedian came from in the past 24 hours since we opened up the site for anyone to use.Notables:Twitter is our #2 source of traffic, and performed better than any of the media sites as a sourceFriendFeed also performed very high relative to other sites.LouisGray.com outperformed Venture (Read More)
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That's what one of our alpha users said to me by email today in reference to our Newsmaker feature on socialmedian. Nice. Thanks!Just like Drudge enables anyone/anywhere to follow the stories he's clipping on any given day, that's what socialmedian enables our users to do -- at a much greater scale. On socialmedian you ca (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
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We are ready to announce the winners of the socialmedian iphone application design contest.Designers were given 1 week to dream up and represent the ideal socialmedian user experience on the iphone. We received 9 entries in the contest. Each of the entries were really well done. The typical entry contained more than 10 p (Read More)
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Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. Been very busy working on new features at socialmedian. Also, it's just so much easier to micro-blog/post on socialmedian, twitter, and friendfeed that my everyday thoughts go there several times daily, while I hold out bigger things for full blog posts. I'm sure others are starting to (Read More)
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Reminder to pass along info to any/all designers who might want $1000 and a free iphone 3G.Details around the socialmedian iphone app design contest can be found here.Designers: contact me personally with any questions. (Read More)
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We all knew that the launch of the new iphone 3G was going to be a hype-fest. But, would it matter to app makers? Would it move the needle on traffic to their sites?Here's one data point that points to a big yes. Upstart UrbanSpoon's traffic has soared since launch of its iphone app, aided by great coverage in TechCrunch (Read More)