Archive for the ‘English’ Category

2or3things, creator of Blastfeed, selected as one of the 200 finalists by Red Herring

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Red Herring Magazine has announced its selection of the 200 European finalists, forerunners for the prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe 2007 award, which will be announced at the Red Herring Venture Market Europe (VME) conference in Cannes on March 25-27 at the Intercontinental Carlton. Check this announcement here. 2or3things are very ...

Blastfeed powers the French presidential campaign

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

A little bit of marketing to show what we can do with the Blastfeed platform. We have put together a web site (http://www.elysee2007endirect.com) that is automatically fed with the Blastfeed filtering and aggregating service. This site is all about the French upcoming presidential election. It posts a great, up to ...

LIFT ‘07, exciting conference for the intellect (part 1)

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Back from LIFT, that conference organised by Laurent Haug and his team in Geneva. We really had a great time over there. Lots of challenging thoughts, numerous talks with questions and topics open for debate, passionate speakers, great people to meet, and a good spirit, focused, intelligent, attentive. The kind ...

New features on Blastfeed: #2 - creating a channel of channels

Monday, February 5th, 2007

You may now create a channel not only with feeds to monitor but also with other channels of yours. What does this mean ? Remember, a channel in Blastfeed defines What to search for, i.e. a set of keywords defining a topic you are interested in. Where, i.e. in which content sources ...

We’ll be at the LIFT conference next Thursday and Friday

Monday, February 5th, 2007

We are happy to participate to the conference organised by Laurent Haug in Geneva, LIFT '07. Program seems promising from the social web through networks through robots and cyborgs through the user centered society to a presentation of the CERN 27-km long atom collider. It looks like it will be ...

Blastfeed is on the move

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

We have moved our servers to a hosting facility 24/7 and... we have moved ourselves to a new office in central Paris. We are happily sitting next to the Mozilla Foundation Europe headed by Tristan Nitot (check his blog). Great company to stimulate discussions around RSS and all Mozilla initiatives.

New features on Blastfeed: #1 - cloning a channel

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

We plan on releasing a number of new features on Blastfeed in the coming weeks. Here is one requested by some users. We have added the possibility to clone a channel, i.e. to copy a channel entirely (all feeds asssigned and the associated filtering conditions). A user can then easily ...

Blastfeed helps PRformance, a PR agency, send their 2007 wishes

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

PRformance, a PR agency in France, has had an original idea to wish their stakeholders (customers, affiliates and journalists) a Happy New Year. PRformance has asked us to put together a web page containing four areas, each area relating to a topic of interest whether it is communication, HR, marketing ...

On the validity of RSS feeds

Monday, January 1st, 2007

RSS is a fantastic way for syndicating your content. But everything comes at a price. The price is that you need to ensure that you generate proper RSS feeds. So the question is what is a proper RSS feed? As RSS feeds are based on XML, the first thing to check is ...

Service outage last night (December 19th to 20th)

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Yesterday night (Paris time), we experienced a problem with one of our servers and Blastfeed was down for a long period of time. Things should be back to normal now. We guess this is part of a proper beta testing, we host the whole service in our offices. It gives us ...