Technically Speaking

Lookery, who I work for in the role of Publisher Relations, had a bit of coverage yesterday. While Kristen did a fine job (and she always does!) of covering our company, there were a few things that we want to make clear.

We are not leaving Facebook. Our intent is definitely not to leave “Facebook apps in the dust“. Lookery for the Web is a service that is going to leverage information. While the advantages of being in Facebook are quite astounding if you are seeing it from a statistical standpoint, there are things outside of social networks that we feel are needing service. Lookery for the Web is going to address those needs, and we are going to do it in a way that should be quite compelling for many.

While the CNN.money article was almost like a teaser, it does help to reveal a bit more about what Lookery is doing. Up until this point, when I told people “Yeah, I work for Lookery.” - it was a bit hard to explain what that was besides being an ad network for Facebook apps.

Technically Speaking, more to be revealed very soon, so stay tuned and keep watching for changes coming to the Lookery information that you will find.

*Update: Wired coverage
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Pownce, which is Kevin Rose’s start up has one cool feature that I do like over twitter. That is the ability to upload music that you can share with your friends. As I hear old songs by my old band on my iPod, I have been sharing them via Pownce. Cool right?

Well it’s Friday, so I’ll share them here:

Too Late - Just shared this one today also; this one was a really weird one. The first time I heard it on my iPod, I was like “WTF were we thinking?” We spent a good deal of time re-writing this whole song, and it ended up being some close to 7 minute song.

In The Mix - Just shared this morning. This song actually made it on some compilation CD for the prevention of teenage suicide.

Forever - Shared yesterday. This was a fun song, and for awhile was our set opener.

The Fable - September 20th. Another fun song to play live.

None of those songs made it to the CD we released in 2001. These are demo songs we did, and this was before all the personnel changes a band usually goes through!

Another cool thing about Pownce is the ability to share YouTube videos right in the program. I shared this one out back on September 12th. Kind of funny.

Technically Speaking, I wish twitter would incorporate this feature into their program soon. Enjoy or despise the above music, and have a great weekend!

Collarity, a main sponsor of this blog seems to be gaining traction with this latest article that was written about them. It appears they are making their presence felt on MyFoxDFW.com:

When you type “rangers” in the search box at MyFoxDFW.com (for Dallas-Fort Worth), all the search terms it recommends relate to baseball, given that the Texas Rangers play in the DFW Metroplex. Yet when you enter “rangers” as a search at MyFoxNY.com, the first suggestions are “shanahan” and “lundqvist,” players on the New York Rangers hockey team. Even more generic search terms show differences; while a query on “crime” brings up terms related to hate crimes for both cities, DFW’s results also refer to “crime spree” and “crime scene” while NY’s refer to “crime stoppers” and “violent crime.”

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Your Truman Show, Inc., the video blogging company, today introduced the VideoMap™ Widget, which allows online video producers and fans to share content across popular social networks wherever it resides on the Internet, from inside the embeddable widget.

VideoMap™ can be placed and accessed by anyone on the Internet, in Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, YourTrumanShow or any other site. Its unique, key component is a graphical video relationship map, which, according to YourTrumanShow’s Founder & Chairman Arturo Artom, “Lets you see who links to you and who you link to as well as the video content you have both collected and may wish to share. VideoMap™ let’s you go from topic to topic and from life to life.”

VideoMap™ lets users open the widget and see themselves in the center of the map, then they can opt from two views. In the first, they are the hub and can see their connections to friends across the Web. In a tray below them, they see their own collection of clips from anywhere on the Internet. When the user clicks on a friend, that friend’s collection appears in the tray.

Your Truman Show’s headquarters is in San Francisco and a development team in Turin, Italy, Your Truman Show, Inc. is the video blogging company dedicated to helping everyday people tell remarkable stories via video diaries. The company provides a free platform (currently in beta) that enables anyone to create their own personal channel, share their stories and review other people’s lives. Founded in 2006, by Arturo Artom and Luca Ferrero, the company is privately held.

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Diigo, will announce an information network that adds an entirely new dimension to the Web. The new Diigo network creates global communities around information, topics, and knowledge. These communities connect people through the content they collect, while also enabling people to discover and share information that matters to them with others in the network.

Diigo users have the ability to “write” on the Web, adding new layers on top of individual Web pages. Every sticky note and highlight added across the Web expands Diigo’s dedicated social information network, allowing users to discuss content directly on each page.

Diigo users can also now create or join groups. Diigo groups provide a forum for collaborative research and learning - connecting people with similar interests. Users can pool their findings through group bookmarks, highlights, and sticky notes. Researchers can also create private groups for sharing and collaboration among specific teams.

MyQuire, is an online tool for doing projects. It lets members work with tools they already know, keep their projects on track, meet with other project members in real time conferences, and connect their projects with their networks. While there are plenty of project tools out there, most people haven’t found one that fits their lives.

Instead of forcing people to change their behavior, MyQuire’s intuitive design and simplified feature set let people work how they want to work. They can spend more of their time achieving their goals and less of it tracking down who’s done what, hunting for the latest version of a document, or finding ways to share files that are too large for email.

The increasing popularity of social networks and communities like Facebook and LinkedIn has opened the door for MyQuire’s success. People are getting more and more comfortable interacting with each other in online environments. However, many are now wondering how they can move beyond the entertainment and networking value of Web 2.0 and use this new world to help them get more done. MyQuire is the answer.

Yuuguu , out of the UK, is designed for an increasingly mobile world. The new service helps people work together remotely, across different platforms, with as many colleagues as needed, just as if they were sitting in the same room.

Yuuguu, derived from the Japanese word for fusion, enables users to see, share, and take control of each other’s computer screens and applications. Unlike previous Web collaboration solutions, Yuuguu supports Web browsers on any device, including mobile phones — for unprecedented flexibility. Users can securely share their screen with anyone at any time, whether they’re on a PC, Mac, or mobile phone.

Free and easy-to-use, Yuuguu can be used by team members working on a project or by friends sharing applications. Colleagues and friends can message and chat while they share screens for enhanced collaboration. The platform includes high quality, low cost voice conferencing services for one-to-one and one-to-many voice calls. And Yuuguu’s integrated presence status brings a sense of community to Web sharing, as users can see when friends are online and click to invite them.

Technically Speaking, DEMOfall sounds like an excuse for me to travel back to the SD!