Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

RollSense experiencing some down time again, working on it - Sorry for the inconvenience

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Update: Problem is fixed. We definitely have to have a closer look at our backend server. rollSense widgets are no longer updated at this moment. We are in the process of fixing it. Hopefully we'll get on line soon. Please bear with us, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Update: Service is up again. Thanks. Thursday 28th Feb, 5.00pm CET : rollSense is down for the moment.

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

We are currently experiencing some problems with our back end server. Hence rollSense widgets are no longer updated at this moment. We are in the process of fixing it. Hopefully we'll get on line soon. Please bear with us, and sorry for the inconvenience. Fixed now.

Interesting and depressing perspective on the European startup financing

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

VentureBeat wrote an interesting post about the state of the startup financing in Europe. In short the lack of exit perspective in the form of IPO's or M&A is to some extent a show stopper for VC's. Hence they tend to invest in fewer companies, however with larger amounts to ...

Micro-blogging, interview with Bloggino

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

DreamOrange.fr, the online magazine of France Télécom R&D, interviewed us back in December about the micro-blogging phenomenon. Of course we talk about Bloggino. The interview (in French) can be found here, along with a good analysis of the micro-blogging space these days. Bloggino is definitely part of that space.  We are currently ...

rollSense installed on the new web site of Marianne, a leading French weekly magazine

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Marianne opened its new web site this very morning, Marianne2.fr. The web site includes three rollSense widgets: A first one that automatically recommends content tapped into a selection of leading French news sites; this widget is visible on the right hand top corner upon clicking on the article you want to ...

We’ll present rollSense at Mashup*Demo Oct 2nd in London

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

We'll discuss and demo rollSense in London on October 2nd for mashup*Demo, an event prepared by mashup*Event in partnership with Sam Sethi's BlogNation. The venue will be in Central London on October 2nd from 3 to 6pm. Look us up!

ReadWriteWeb on rollSense

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Josh Catone (thanks much!) from ReadWriteWeb wrote a great post on rollSense. He highlights the fact that rollSense is a great way to use blogrolls, which indeed are somewhat static. Your blogroll becomes smart and dynamic. We keep working on enhancing rollSense and implementing the ads model with which we'll share ...

rollSense is up & running

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

We have just released rollSense, our new application that automatically recommends to blog readers content related to what they read. Anyone can use it and configure its rollSense widget here.

rollSense for bloggers: recommend content to your readers

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

We are about to launch a new application, rollSense, for blog publishers and their readers. RollSense automatically finds and displays related blog posts against what is read by a reader. To some extent, rollSense is the Google AdSense for content. We use a contextual analysis of the post being read for ...

US Presidential Election 2008 : Blastfeed to follow the Internet flow of information

Monday, May 7th, 2007

For the forthcoming US Presidential election, we have launched a web site automatically powered by Blastfeed that monitors hundreds of web feeds and detects any US candidate name in posts. Blastfeed updates in real time a counter per candidate that defines his/her standing against the others. Each score is closely related ...