items tagged with BlogWorld Expo 09

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Zemanta - Zemanta is a new platform for accelerating on-line content production for any web user.

Adam Jackson (Yoono) - Discussion on how to approach someone you really want to have a deep conversation with at a conference but might not be able to because of time constraints.

Twingly - Twingly.com is a blog search engine featuring a spam-free, faceted, social search for the global blogosphere.

Nelly Yusupova (CTO of Webgrrls) - Discussion on women in technology.

Technosailor (Author of WordPress Bible)

Sprouter - Enabling collaboration and networking between entrepreneurs globally

Thoora - In real-time, Thoora identifies the most interesting stories by exploring the entire blogosphere, Twitter and nearly 5,000 traditional media sources to determine the stories attracting the most blog posts, comments, tweets, and news coverage.

Rohit Bhargava (Author of Personality Not Included) - Discussion on getting smarter with what you share on the web.

Regator - Regator is a website that gathers the world’s best blog posts and organizes them in a way that makes it easy to find the things you need.

Lewis Howes (Co-Author of LinkedWorking) - Discussing secrets that Linkedin doesn't want you to know.

Propadoo - Puts your testimonial & referral requests on auto-pilot.

PayPal - Discussion about charities and how they are helping out.

Kevin Pollak - Discussion of New Media and Traditional Media.

New Media Joe - The Voice of BlogWorld and New Media Expo.

Allen Miller (Hitman PR) - Public Relations in a Social Media World.

Greg Ferenstein (Fast Company) - Discussion on how to give an awesome conference presentation.

Sarah Robinson (Escaping-Mediocrity) - Escape from the world of mediocrity.

Envolve - Discuss websites in real-time with other readers, share your thoughts with a global audience, and network with other like-minded individuals.

BuzzVoice - Makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done!

CSI: Miami Winners - Discussion on the adventures to BlogWorld

The Bloggers Bulletin - Teaching the business community on how to blog

Matthew Bamberg (Author of 101 Quick and Easy Series)

Better Internet Video - Teaching the world on how to produce better video on the internet.

To Get this ball rollin' we first speak with Rick Calvert (Founder of BlogWorld):

It's always great to catch-up with start-ups we have interviewed in the past.  Seeing their progress and how much they have changed in one year is pretty amazing.  So it was a pleasure to catch-up with BuzzVoice (formally Pimp My News) and to see where they have taken their product.  The name isn't the only thing to change from BuzzVoice.  BuzzVoice now gives you more options and more sources to choose from.  You can now choose from over 1,400+ new sites and weblogs, see a story's original text, as well as any video or images that go along with it.

One of my personal favorite features of the app is the daily podcast.  It mashes together your 10 top favorite news feeds into a 10min newscast.  You can expand that by going "Pro" and get a 30min version with a monthly $4 subscription fee (Take it for free 7 day Trial Run).  Another feature that they added is "BuzzRadio".  What BuzzRadio does is allows you to select a topic station of your liking and listen to the most recent top stories from their network of sources.  It is like a Pandora for web news.

As of right now BuzzVoice is offering their iPhone/iPod touch service for half price at $2.  You can get BuzzVoice through the iTunes app store here:

Checkout our interview with John Atkinson from BlogWorld Expo 09:

Envolve is a very early stage start-up company based out of San Francisco with a goal to enable meaningful conversation all over the web in real-time.  They do this by providing websites with a Facebook style chat system that is enabled with a small line of javascript embedded into the web-page.  This gives a website a small widget on the bottom right hand corner of the page that you can enable and disable.  The widget provides you with the ability to interact with other people that are currently on a website and also interact with the administrators by using a flagging system.  The flagging system works like this: all new users are marked in black, registered in green, and administrators in red.

Here at TechZulu we've seen a few companies like this popping up all over.  Before we covered a TC50 company by the name of Stribe (click here to read story) and meebo has there own version known as the meebo bar.  Each claims to be better then the other because you can't have multiple bars on your web-page.  Well you could but that would just look silly.

Like I stated before they are in very early stage mode and I hope to see great things to come out of envolve.  you can give it a test drive here or you can sign-up to become one of their beta testers at their website.

We interviewed James Tamplin Co-Founder of Envolve at BlogWorld Expo 09.  Listen to the story of how they began and where they plan on taking Envolve in the future:

Hand-picked blogs representing tremendous different areas of content.  With over 3 million blogs articles from over 500 categories.  Also, Finding quality blogs can be a bit tricky when there are about 60 million online blogs to look through.  In comes Regator.  Regator looks for and chooses the best blogs and organizes them for you and makes them really easy for you to locate.  Now that they have recently launched an iPhone app (which is free) you have all the power of Regator in your hand. On top of that you are also going to be able to share your content through the app to Twitter, Facebook, and email.

When you first open the app your placed in the popular news section.  Something I thought was cool is it was a mix of a little bit of everything, technology, celebrity, sports, etc.  You can get specific and just see what area you are really interested in.  I myself click on the technology section but like to have the "All Topics" selected when I first open it up.  Never know when Miley Cyrus might get back on twitter!

We interviewed Kimberly Turner Editorial Director at Regator during BlogWorld Expo 2009:

You can also checkout their very well put together video on everything they have to offer:

Aggregation seems to be the magic word for 2009.  Here is one company I believe is doing best.  News aggregating company Thoora gives you all your media news, social and traditional, in one place.  Thoora has recently come out of private beta offering their free service of breaking news that is based off of millions of blogs, thousands of traditional media outlets and Twitter.  After pulling in from all these sources Thoora categorizes them under 25 different sections that include video games, sports, mobile, technology, entertainment, etc.

Before you begin diving into the stories you are welcomed by a dashboard similar to Digg.  These stories are judged by the reactions that they have had on the internet. Rather then just the community votes.  The top stories are those that have had the most reaction (tweets, blog posts, etc.) on the web.

The one thing that truly separates Thoora from the rest which I thought was amazing was the addition of open analysis.  They provide real-time track-backs to all their stories.  A few other features are internal commenting and social media sharing.

We interviewed Michael Lee Founder of Thoora during BlogWorld Expo 09 where he told us why he started the company and where he is taking the company in the future: