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January 28, 2010
What You Need to Know About Foursquare
Great preso from Robin Grant over at we are social.
I am an admitted Foursquare addict, sure, but walk through the deck below and see why Foursquare and GPS-enabled/location-based apps are going to be a big deal.
Posted by davehod at 09:15 AM | Comments (0)
January 21, 2010
PersistentFan Graduates to Beta
Bacon has a post up about PersistentFan leaving invite-only mode.
We’re not quite ready for primetime, calling it an early Beta instead. Like many things, we have a zillion ideas to try out and will continue to rev the service. Check it out if you have a chance.
Here’s a few sample channels to test drive with:
- Jack Bauer (of 24 fame)
- The Office
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Tony Romo
- Brett Favre
- Live concerts from the Fillmore in San Francisco
- Kings of Leon
- Lady Gaga
You can also see what other people are watching
If you are a big fan of Jersey Shore or want to keep up with the latest from the disaster in Haiti, PersistentFan enables you to:
- Create channels of interest that persistently search for new content
- Receive email notifications when new content is available (you receive these as they are discovered or on a daily or weekly basis)
- Share your favorites to Facebook and/or Twitter
- Keep up with video feeds of Twitter’s trending topics
PersistentFan was built with open source, Java, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, mod_jk, mysql, junit, Struts, AWS (EC2 and S3), Javascript and plenty of Last.fm.
Posted by davehod at 09:05 PM | Comments (0)
January 13, 2010
Introducting PersistentFan!
Mike (Bacon) has a post up on the BaconMarathon blog about our latest effort, PersistentFan. He details how we got to where we are currently and why we decided to break out of the Facebook/F8 jail.
The site is currently in invite-mode (aka early alpha), head over and sign up today!
Posted by davehod at 11:27 AM | Comments (0)
New Bing Health Features
Here’s a quick link summary about a number of Bing Health features we recently shipped:
- Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet - Microsoft adds new health-search capabilities to Bing
- Search Engine Land - Bing Adds More Health Data to Search
- ComputerWorld – Microsoft’s secret weapon against Google: Health search
- Seattle PI – Bing Health results boxes are now live
Posted by davehod at 11:15 AM | Comments (0)