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Blastfeed service is temporarily down

November 7, 2007 – 8:24 pm
Hello Blastfeed users, We currently experience some problems with one of our servers. We are working to put the service back on line as soon as we can. We'll keep you posted. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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rollSense with sponsored links from Yahoo! Search Marketing

October 17, 2007 – 5:16 pm
As we had announced when we first launched rollSense, we shall now serve ads in the form of sponsored links along with the recommendations provided by rollSense. We work in partnership with Yahoo! Search marketing. For the time being, ads will be displayed only for your readers located in France. Other countries soon to follow. What good does it bring to the table ? We see a win-win-win situation by using rollSense, both for the blog publisher, their readers and the network the publisher may create. Indeed, recommended content with a couple of ads when prominently placed is likely to attract the reader. Moreover, 1) rollSense brings a compelling service for readers (links to recommended content from blogs specifically selected by the publisher) 2) rollSense creates a network effect as soon as rollSense gets its recommended content from a list of sources shared by each blog from that list. Network means more in-time traffic, ...

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rollSense avec liens sponsorisés de Yahoo! Search Marketing

October 17, 2007 – 5:14 pm
Comme nous l'avions annoncé à la sortie de rollSense, nous allons maintenant offrir des publicités sous forme de liens sponsorisés placés au-dessus des recommandations de rollSense. Nous travaillons en partenariat avec Yahoo! Search Marketing. Pour le moment, les liens sponsorisés ne seront affichés que pour les lecteurs résidant en France. D'autres pays seront ajoutés sous peu. Uitliser rollSense, quels avantages en retirer ? Nous pensons qu'utiliser rollSense crée un environnement où toutes les parties sont gagnantes, l'éditeur du blog, les lecteurs et le réseau créé par l'éditeur. En effet, du contenu recommandé et ciblé avec en plus quelques liens sponsorisés peut attirer le lecteur, quand rollSense est bien placé. De plus, 1) rollSense offre aux lecteurs un véritable service où du contenu de valeur (puisque pris dans les sources sélectionnées par l'éditeur du blog) prolonge sa lecture et lui fait découvrir de nouvelles perspectives 2) rollSense crée un ...

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mashup*Demo in London, a great event

October 4, 2007 – 6:34 pm
Very pleased to have presented rollSense (and showed Bloggino) to a great audience. The event took place in a club in Soho last Tuesday. We liked the format, 15 start-ups on stage for a 3-minute pitch one after the other, then off to a little booth for demoing to whoever interested. Not too crowded, interesting people, good discussions and contacts. We were the only ones from abroad, it wouldn't hurt to get a little more companies from the Continent in the future. The event was followed by the Blognation launch party by Sam Sethi. We like the idea of Blognation, a global network of specialized tech blogs covering local news.

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

September 18, 2007 – 10:34 am
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 read. Marianne has never been afraid to talk about what its other colleagues from the press say. A second widget that displays the latest posts from a selection of French blogs; it is located on the right hand side bar, in the middle. A widget that filters a range of international news sites looking for French politics news; it is located on the left hand side bar at the bottom. Marianne's blog gives additional explanations on the usage of rollSense and other services on its web site. It also allows for caturing a Marianne rollSense widget to copy and paste on ...

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rollSense installé sur Marianne2.fr, le nouveau site de l’hebdomadaire Marianne

September 18, 2007 – 10:17 am
Marianne vient de lancer son nouveau site web, Marianne2.fr. Le site a placé trois widgets rollSense : Un widget de recommandation de contenu pris dans la presse nationale et qui s'active en haut à droite des articles lus (Marianne a toujours eu une politique d'ouverture vers les autres confrères) Un widget qui présente les billets les plus récents d'une sélection de sites de la blogosphère et qui est situé en bas à droite Un widget en bas à gauche qui filtre des sources de news étrangères pour y détecter ce qui a trait à la politique française Le blog de Marianne2.fr donne aussi d'autres explications et la possibilité de capturer un widget rollSense qui montre les derniers articles de Marianne pour le placer sur son blog ou site web.

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

September 13, 2007 – 10:12 am
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!

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Fresh design for 2or3things web site, new applications released

September 3, 2007 – 5:08 pm
After the summer holidays (not so summer this year, rather autumnesque), we felt we needed to revamp our corporate web site. There it is, a simple design, yet (we feel) elegant. Beyond our web site redesign, most important, we launched rollSense in August in public beta. We are now actively working on adding new features, e.g. targeted ads which we announced as part of our goal to encourage bloggers to use rollSense. And we are about to launch our pet project, right from 2or3things entertainment, Bloggino, a fun place to create your mini blog from anywhere, by SMS, MMS, email, IM or through the web site. We are in a test mode right now, so keep your eyes wide open...

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ReadWriteWeb on rollSense

August 3, 2007 – 12:59 pm
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 revenues with bloggers.

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TechCrunch.fr, par Ouriel Ohayon, sur rollSense

July 20, 2007 – 10:39 am
Ouriel Ohayon vient de poster un article sur TechCrunch.fr à propos de rollSense, le service que nous venons de lancer. Merci à Ouriel !

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