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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Music News: Simon Cowell's Star Struck, Madonna, Darren Hayes, Spice Girls, Shayne Ward |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 11:50 am |
| Tags: American Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Darren Hayes, Madonna, Music, Music Recommendations, Music Video, Simon Cowell |
| Please welcome Robbie Daw, who will be penning occasional music posts for us here on Towleroad! Robbie runs his own pop music site called Chart Rigger. It looks as if next year will be your chance to finally judge how much talent Simon Cowell really possesses. The American Idol and X Factor pop mogul told The Hollywood Reporter that |
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| SeeqPod Scouring The Web For Music |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 12:36 am |
| Tags: Beta, Internet, Music, Music Search, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Search, Seeqpod, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Iphone |
| sure how SeeqPod is creating recommendations but it reminds me of iTunes "Just for You" music recommendations. Check out the screen-shot below of the discover search results. Additionally, SeeqPod offers API's for developers to tap into the Recommendation and Discovery Services. SeeqPod is similar to JiwaMusic but SeeqPod offers a |
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| Global Grind: Startpage For Hip Hop Gen? |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 12:15 am |
| Tags: Ajax, Beta, Feeds, Global Grind, Media 2 0, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Homepage |
| to be a form of content recommendations which were alluded to earlier. I also thought that it was worth noting that any feed that I added to my page was added to the sites feed directory and left the content express content tray, thus putting its users to work populating the site with feed options. Secondly, Global Grind |
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| KnockaTV Is Coming But What Is It? |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 8:38 am |
| Tags: Beta, Community, Entertainment, Knockatv, Media 2 0, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Television, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech |
| KnockaTV is coming, according to the vintage "I want my MTV" style video that is playing on the site (go to the site to see what I am taking about). I just signed up for a beta tester account for KnockaTV last night and this morning I noticed TechCrunch also is looking at the video service but we both have about the same amount of information. |
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| iPhone Secret Features, Flickr Video & Tools, Google Mashup Editor, Facebook on Netvibes, Best Conferences & Twiistup |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 5:48 pm |
| Tags: Baseball, Beta, Blogging, Blogging Tip, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Collaborative Filtering, Conferences, Event, Facebook, Google, How To, Mashup, Media 2 0, Netvibes, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Recommendations, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Stow |
| Photo of the Week: Barry Bonds hit home run 755 last night in a game vs. San Diego tying Hank Aaron for most career home runs in Major League history. John Feeley was in attendance and captured history with his zoom lens in this shot (shown above). Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.05.07 Twiistup 2: 08.08.07 - Sign Up Today!Time to for |
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| Things You Want or Have Get BoxedUp |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:27 pm |
| Tags: Aggregator, Amazon, Beta, Boxedup, Media 2 0, Recommendations, Search, Shopping, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tags, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, E Commerce |
| and items when looking for recommendations. The site positions recent activity (i.e. added items, etc) in a scrolling wall for users to monitor what community members are doing in the community real-time. Items can be tagged and a tag cloud of popular items is also displayed for users to discover new things. BoxedUp looks to leverage Google |
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| My iTunes Data Widgets Now Sharable |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 5:56 pm |
| Tags: Apple, Feeds, Jiwamusic, Last Fm, Media 2 0, Music, Music Search, Mystrands, One Llama, Pandora, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Riffs, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Syndication, Technologies, Techno |
| been offering personalized recommendations within the iTunes application for quite sometime and I have found them to be very accurate and helpful. I have often discovered new songs that I like within the recommendations and downloading them quickly for instant gratification. iTunes has started to role out syndication of personalized music data |
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| What's your favorite food memoir? |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 2:36 pm |
| Tags: Book Recommendations, Food Memoirs, Foodmemoirs, Laurie Colwin, Npr, Ruth Reichl |
| some friends for book recommendations and was referred to a great segment that aired on NPR's Morning Edition back in June. In it Steve Inskeep spoke with Ruth Reichl about her favorite food memoirs. In the segment she spoke about several books, but then also furnished NPR with a more complete list of gastronomical memoirs for posting on |
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| Music News: Darren Hayes Disses John Howard, Plus Duran Duran, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Phil Spector, Robyn |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 2:45 pm |
| Tags: Courtney Love, Darren Hayes, Justin Timberlake, Music, Music Recommendations, Music Video, Pet Shop Boys |
| Please welcome Robbie Daw, who will be penning occasional music posts for us here on Towleroad! Robbie runs his own pop music site called Chart Rigger. For the past two weeks, Brisbane-born Darren Hayes and his British husband, Richard Cullen, have been zipping around Australia as Hayes promotes his album, This Delicate Thing We've Made |
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| Engagd Attention Platform Launches |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 10:55 am |
| Tags: Api, Apml, Attention, Feeds, Mashup, Personalization, Personalized, Product Development, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Resource, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Development, Web Metrics, Web Tech, Att |
| Engagd, created by Faraday Media, has launched to offer web developers a toolkit of services for tracking attention data (the things users do on the Web). Leveraging Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML, Engagd offers a few different Web services empowering users to control their own personal Attention Profiles, and developers to |
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| BuzzFeed: Discover The Web's Buzz |
| Published: August 18, 2007, 12:23 am |
| Tags: Attention, Blogosphere, Blogs, Buzzfeed, Community, Content, Design, Digg, Media 2 0, New York, News, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Sphere, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Weblogs |
| What's buzzing on the web? Wouldn't it be nice to know? Using a combination of techniques which include sophisticated algorithms, click tracking and human editors BuzzFeed, a NY-based startup, discovers and distributes what is buzzing on the Web. At first glance, BuzzFeed's simple, elegant blog-like design which was influenced by Jason |
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| Skype Outage, Google Health Coming, Social Money Management, Social Networks In A Box, New AOL Mobile & TECH cocktail Boston Sold Out |
| Published: August 19, 2007, 9:30 pm |
| Tags: Aol, Blogrovr, Blogging, Blogging Tip, Blogosphere, Business, Community, Google, Mapquest, Mobile, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Co |
| Photo of the Week: This photo titled WEB 2 OH is an artistic take on a license plate I spotted earlier this week. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.19.2007 Skype Suffers Major Outage Skype goes black for a bit and here some people that benefited from it. First Google Health Is Coming Google Health, codename Weaver , is Google's |
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| Music News: Annie Lennox Takes The Dark Road, Plus Kanye West, Jordin Sparks, Rick Astley, Ari Gold |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 12:05 pm |
| Tags: American Idol, Annie Lennox, Dan Gillespie Sells, Jordin Sparks, Kanye West, Madonna, Music, Music Recommendations, Music Video |
| Please welcome Robbie Daw, who will be penning occasional music posts for us here on Towleroad! Robbie runs his own pop music site called Chart Rigger. Though she's one of popular music's most iconic figures, Annie Lennox is gearing up to release only the fourth album of her 15-year solo career. Songs Of Mass Destruction is out October 1 |
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| SmartLink Feeds Added To AdaptiveBlue |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 11:47 pm |
| Tags: Adaptiveblue, Amazon, Blogging Tip, Rss, Recommendations, Social Bookmarking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Widgets |
| AdaptiveBlue, a startup that focuses on a smarter browsing experience, has created feed output for its SmartLinks functionality. This is feature called appropriately, SmartLink Feeds will make it easy for anyone to take pull in the feed from a SmartLinks widget and display it on their blog, website or personalized homepage. SmartLinks are |
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| Music News: Anton Corbijn Takes Control, Plus Keri Hilson, Adam Levine, The Killers |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 2:02 pm |
| Tags: Music, Music Recommendations, News, Pet Shop Boys |
| Please welcome Robbie Daw, who will be penning occasional music posts for us here on Towleroad! Robbie runs his own pop music site called Chart Rigger. Just as seminal U.K. dance act New Order appear to be on the verge of imploding, Control -- rock photographer Anton Corbijn's biopic of doomed Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis -- is set |
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