Archive for the ‘mybloglog’ Category

Startup Lucky ThingFo Interview

Great video of Mike getting inteviewed by Startup Lucky’s Aronado Placencia on Cinco de Mayo. Mike talks about ThingFo and has some really interesting things to say about getting a startup off the ground. Aronado is an excellent interviewer, he has great energy and an understanding of the startup scene. Plus, we always [...]

Sacramento Kings: I Will Resist Basketball Metaphors

But I can’t stop myself: this widget is a slam dunk!
I’ll hold back now.
Seriously, though, what a widget.
The Kings have taken their purple-and-white colors and stuck them on one of our SocialSite Widgets, and I think the result is outstanding. The Kings are definitely ahead of the pack here (kind of a basketball [...]

ABC News Bring Themselves Into the Social Web With SocialSite

During President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress, ABC News featured our SocialSite system on their main and politics pages. During the historic address, which dealt primarily with Obama’s plans to deal with the current economic crisis, a prominent SocialSite widget followed all the Twittering about the speech. We think this shows [...]

Thingfo and Mobissimo launch MobiFriends travel community

Today, I’m happy to announce the MobiFriends travel community. Built in partnership with Mobissimo, MobiFriends is a social application that creates a next-generation online travel community for Mobissimo users.
Mobissimo visitors can share travel plans and deals, discover fellow travelers, trade tips on favorite hotels, restaurants, bars, museums and activities – all in the context of [...]

How Thingfo uses the MyBlogLog API to accelerate community-building: interview with Ian Kennedy of Yahoo! and MyBlogLog

I had a great time talking with Ian Kennedy of Yahoo! and MyBlogLog about we’re using their API to accelerate community building. Ian and the team at MBL are pushing the envelope on open-ness with their API strategy. (Also, they have some cool new MBL stickers — they say “You are [...]