http://blog.thingfo.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:47:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following up on my post with a couple of widgets that follows 52 Iran Twitterers who are on the ground in Iran, here are two widgets that take a different approach. These track "IranElection" keywords (or slight variations of that) on Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Flickr & YouTube. If ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/06/22/follow-the-iran-election-across-twitter-digg-delicious-flickr-youtube-with-thingfo/ Here are some widgets you can use to follow the Iran Election. The first is a widget that follows 52 Twitterers on the ground in Iran. The list was put together by The Road to the Horizon. (thank you!). If anyone has another IranElection twitterer they think ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/06/22/following-52-iranelection-twitterers-on-the-ground-in-iran-with-a-thingfo-widget/ Greetings friends, Romans... fans of the social web. We've introduced a new view for your Thingfos -- now in addition to publishing your social streams via mini-widget, you can publish them Full-Page style. The Daily Galaxy made themselves a full page Thingfo to publish real-time news related to space science ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/05/29/dailygalaxy-publishes-spaceecoscience-news-stream-with-new-fullpage-thingfo-template/ 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/05/07/startup-lucky-thingfo-interview/ That's right, we just launched a new, improved version of SocialSite, the CMS for the social web from Thingfo. First, we made the service faster and added more traffic capacity, to support our growing user base. And because so many of our users manage more than one site, brand, or persona, ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/04/24/socialsite-just-got-more-social/ The New Media Summit and Celebration, presented by Netroots Nation and the Netroots Arts and Education Initiative, happens today at the Bently Reserve, The summit is sold out, but there are still tickets available for the evening celebration, where our founder Mike Grishaver may even give out some free pro ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/04/17/in-the-bay-area-tonight-come-find-us-at-the-new-media-summit-celebration/ Yet another great website has started using SocialSite! OK, first - you might not have checked out FORA.tv yet, so if you have some free time please just click that link there and come back after you've explored a bit. It will take a bit to get decent taste, though, so ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/04/12/connecting-to-a-smart-audience-with-socialsite/ You should be! http://twitter.com/thingfo http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/04/08/are-you-following-our-twitter/ I really dig the range of groups and people that use SocialSite widgets. On my last post I wrote about the Sacramento Kings, and the latest site to come to my attention seems (granted, in a shallow, stereotypical kind of way) the exact opposite: civilibrarian.com. From jocks to nerds, everyone ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/04/04/on-being-a-librarian-in-the-web-age/ 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/2009/03/26/sacramento-kings-i-will-resist-basketball-metaphors/