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Can Facebook Save Digg From Being Buried Alive?
Jan 23rd
For all of Digg’s efforts, it has really had no luck in trying to get back to its glory days, when it dominated the social aggregation space completely. Starting years ago with changes to limit the power their top users had, it has been one failed release after another, with version 4’s release really marking [...]
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News.me Swoops In to Save Summify Users
Jan 22nd
News.me deserves credit today for some start-up agility and helpfulness. Yesterday, Twitter bought Summify, a service that crunched down links from one’s Twitter feed into a need-to-know email digest, and it will be shut down. Loving users freaked out. News.me, which provides a similar service, heard those cries for help, and it has redesigned its homepage and launched new features to welcome those Summify users in.
News.me got popular with its iPad app, but it also offers an email digest with Summify-like functionality. Today it’s announcing a slew of new features: Facebook support, time zone support, and control over the number of articles and sending time for the email digest. News.me also wants to know what features Summify users want.
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News.me general manager Jake Levine says that “Summify users seem universally unhappy with the news” of Twitter’s acquisition. It stinks when a useful service goes away. Twitter might not even use Summify’s technology, but they’re hiring the developers for Twitter’s User Growth team. Twitter needs people who know how to filter the noise of a stream into something useful. That may not look anything like Summify, but Summify’s creators are experts on the problem.
But the News.me team says in its blog post that solving the problem is “not that hard to do (shhh…).” Summify’s users need a place to go now. Fortunately for them, News.me’s business is more well-rounded with the iOS app and subscription plans. Support for links from Facebook expands News.me’s usefulness, and the new email features offer more control over the digests than Summify users had.
But the best part is asking for suggestions. News.me asks Summify users:
- What did you like best about the service that you’d love to see us implement?
- What did you wish you could have but that Summify never built?
If you’d like to chime in, comment on the News.me blog post.
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Share the Experience: Send Your Team to SMX West…and Save
Dec 27th
Shared knowledge, experiences, vocabulary…they’re all part of building an effective internet and search engine marketing team. And Search Marketing Expo – SMX West provides an exceptional opportunity for teams to learn and network. Choose from nearly 60 sessions covering SEO, PPC, social media…
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Save 10% On Microsoft Office365 With MasterCard
Dec 21st
MasterCard and Microsoft announced a new strategic initiative to market and sell Microsoft’s cloud productivity service, Office 365. You can get an automatic 10% discount when you buy through their easysavings.com discount program and use your MasterCard. There are several plans that start at $6 per user per month for less than 50 seats (undiscounted).
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We last looked at Office 365 here and compared it to Google Docs and Zoho Docs. Microsoft has changed a few elements of its plans since our article came out this summer.
The easysavings.com program is similar to those from other credit card companies, and there is a list of other discounts that are available. You don’t need to do anything to get the discounts, other than use your credit card, once you register. For small businesses, this might be worth a few bucks off your bill if you use any of these service providers: you can save 10% off Budget car rentals, and 5% on Frontier airline tickets too.
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Search Engine Land’s SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Saturday – Register Now & Save!
Dec 15th
Looking for the best deals in your holiday shopping? How about an offer that saves you money now… and boosts your 2012 revenues? Time is running out! SMX West Super Early Bird rates – the lowest offered – expire end of day Saturday, December 17th. Register now for an All Access pass. Here’s what…
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SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Soon – Register Now, Save $400
Dec 6th
February 28 – March 1 in San Jose, CA Attend SMX West and get expert insights and real-world-proven tactics that yield results instantly. Programmed by the editorial team of Search Engine Land, the multi-track agenda will feature 60+ tactic-packed sessions on SEO, paid search, social media…
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Foursquare Introduces “Save” Button
Dec 1st
Geo-location social network Foursquare has announced a “Save” button for webmasters. This button allows users to store a location with a single click, then receive a notification when they’re close to the location itself.
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Save Places You Find Online To Your Foursquare To-Do List
Nov 30th
Our friends aren’t the only ones who tell us where we should go. Publications that we read online often times provide us with tips about cool places we want to check out offline. Today Foursquare announced that users read about new places online can easily add those location to their Foursquare to-do list by clicking the new “save to Foursquare” button.
The button will appear alongside location-related content on sites that have structured metadata using Facebook’s OpenGraph and hCard formats. Publications such as New York Magazine, Time Out Boston, Time Out New York, Time Out Chicago and CBS have already started using this new Foursquare feature.
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When you click on the “save to Foursquare” button, a window pops up confirming the place. Then it’s saved to Foursquare on your phone. Foursquare users who have activated real-time list notifications technology Radar will receive a buzz on their phone when they’re near a location on the to-do list. Earlier this week, Foursquare launched NFC-powered check-ins, which make the act of checking in feel less virtual. Users just wave their phones, and poof – they’re automatically checked in to a venue.
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Is a Social Redesign Enough to Save Grooveshark?
Nov 14th
Music streaming service Grooveshark recently launched a visual refresh for its website, giving it a more social focus. Much like other freemium music services such as Rdio and Spotify, the new Grooveshark includes a news feed of recent activity and the ability to comment on other user’s listening activity.
The update seems like a logical next step, given the social features already baked into competing services, not to mention the the deep Facebook integration enjoyed by Spotify, MOG and others. The new changes also aim to connect fans with artists and provide new revenue streams, the company told GigaOm recently. It’s a worthwhile refresh, but to remain viable, Grooveshark may have much bigger mountains to climb.
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At first glance, Grooveshark appears to look and work very similarly to something like Spotify. A search for almost any artist, however, reveals what’s different. For example, typing “Radiohead” into Rdio or Spotify will bring up the band’s major releases, neatly packaged as digital replicas of they way they were originally brought to market. On Grooveshark, you’ll find rare B-sides, bootlegged concerts and fan-made remixes.
Whereas Spotify waited several months to launch in the United States in in order to secure the proper licensing deals with major labels, Groovehsark launched in 2007 and has only one formal agreement in place with a major label. Instead, Grooveshark’s approach to copyright and licensing looks more like YouTube’s did in its early days: Let people upload what they want and deal with the DMCA take-down requests later.
By contrast, Spotify will let you merge your local music files with their massive, streamable library, but crucially, it stops short of letting you upload your own stuff and share it with others. In short, it doesn’t pull a Napster.
As it turns out, this feature makes Grooveshark a little too Napster-esque in the eyes of some record label executives. Last year, Universal Music filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Grooveshark. Shortly thereafter, its app was pulled from the iTunes App Store and the service has not been available on iOS since. That’s a major competitive disadvantage for any music streaming service, given Apple’s marketshare in both smartphones and tablets, not to mention the iPod. The service even ran afoul of the less restrictive Android Marketplace, from which it was removed in April.
Grooveshark’s leadership has repeatedly insisted that the service operates within the parameters of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and related copyright laws. Whether the courts agree is something that remains to be seen, but hopefully for users of the service, the (albeit limited) Napster comparison doesn’t follow Grooveshark much further.
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