tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105121732012-01-27T09:05:06.429-08:00Our people, our websites, and our take on the major trends unfolding online.Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.comBlogger1371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1161313900105255132006-10-19T20:08:00.000-07:002006-10-19T20:11:40.126-07:00

Please visit our new blog at:http://blog.mindvalley.com/We thought it was time to kiss Blogger good bye and host our own blog here

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1159441011726391382006-09-28T03:24:00.000-07:002006-10-19T19:45:25.880-07:00

This post, and the entire blog has moved to http://blog.mindvalley.com/

khaileenoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1157632922205331672006-09-07T05:41:00.000-07:002006-09-10T20:15:25.206-07:00

How's the "Social Bookmarking" game coming along?Whether or not you are one of the "social bookmarking" players,or an observer, you have to admit... it is a tough market that is overfunded and has too many players.Even the name "social bookmarking" is far from ideal. Bring that up to any potential user and they will turn around and say "huh?""Bookmarking" is no fun and it has never been fun.

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1157517221897071012006-09-05T21:15:00.000-07:002006-09-07T05:51:10.186-07:00

We're so excited! We just rolled out a major new release of BlinkList. Here are some improvements, that we hope, will excite you, too!Increased Speed!Our initial benchmarking tests already show that BlinkLists is more than twice as fast than it has ever been!Improved Discovery!The main discovery page of BlinkList (you need to be signed into BlinkList to see the page) is polished up... we now-

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1156926819607553622006-08-30T01:21:00.000-07:002006-08-30T01:33:39.630-07:00

Over the next few weeks BlinkList will be rolling out several major new upgrades to our system. A lot of the magic will happen on the backend and by the time all is said and done, BlinkList should be blazingly fast once again.In addition, we will be launching "BlinkList Spaces" What are BlinkList Spaces?Here are a few hints:1) While you can soon create your own space on BlinkList, BlinkList

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com79tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1154662084640185902006-08-03T20:24:00.000-07:002006-08-03T20:28:04.663-07:00

Over the past few months we have received more and more user requests to add a thumbnail for their blinked site. Users often asked us why some links had thumbnails while others did not. The answer was that our thumbnail engine could not keep up with the rapid growth of BlinkList.The rate at which the BlinkList community kept blinking was becoming too fast for the little thumbnail engine. So,

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1153309734257143572006-07-19T04:40:00.000-07:002006-07-19T04:48:54.260-07:00

Over the past week BlinkList got hit hard by spammers, far harder than ever before. One of the reason for the increased attention from spammers is that BlinkList continues to gain traction. As we see our visitors and traffic stats rapidly increase it is obvious that more and more of the bad guys will try to come after us. However, one of the biggest new challenges that just emerged recently is

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1151476320727363162006-06-27T23:26:00.000-07:002006-06-27T23:32:00.726-07:00

As BlinkList continues to grow and gain more traction we are starting to see more and more "bad guys" that are trying to abuse the system. While we believe that "people are basically good" there is always a few bad apples that will try to ruin everything for the rest of us.However, we are committed to keep BlinkList spam free so that we can continue to have the freshest and most interesting

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1151046637316155902006-06-22T23:48:00.000-07:002006-06-23T00:16:31.093-07:00

I just wanted to sent out a quick thanks to the BlinkList community! You rock and make our day! Here is just a couple of the testimonials and user comments we have received over the past week:First user comment:"I like BlinkList more and more. I am blinking more seriously than before and I'm getting my QuickBlinks and tags sorted.After having had a look at the other options (sorry ;-) I

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1151029708774670232006-06-22T19:22:00.000-07:002006-06-22T19:28:28.790-07:00

We have moved into a new office at Plaza Sentral, right in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. We have also redesigned our main company site and are now actively hiring new people to grow our development office. If you would like to learn more about us here is three good sites to get started:1) MindValley company site2) MindValley ecommerce blog3) MindValley social blog

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1148286798637538532006-05-22T01:28:00.000-07:002006-05-22T01:56:12.820-07:00

I just wanted to announce two new enhancements that we just rolled out on BlinkList:1) The search suggestions on BlinkList are now as powerful as those on Google Suggest2) We added a new tag manager that allows you to rapidly rename / merge / and delete tagsBoth features make BlinkList easier to use. The better search suggestions help you to find the most interesting public discovery pages in

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1147752368635598402006-05-15T21:00:00.000-07:002006-05-15T21:08:35.386-07:00

In a review of the top 10 social bookmarking services, BlinkList finished in the first place ahead of del.icio.us!That is exciting news and all the credit goes to our stellar development team and of course to our BlinkList community that is always pushing us to keep making BlinkList better and better.The survey also points out one weakness and that is that BlinkList is not all that easy to use if

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1147444113048159352006-05-12T07:21:00.000-07:002006-05-12T07:28:33.070-07:00

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then we are very flattered as del.icio.us continues to roll out more features to match BlinkList. Today del.icio.us announced:We’ve added a new area called “your fans”, which lets you see users who have added you to their network.This feature has been widely available on BlinkList for over six months and it has been very popular with our users.

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1144921371276593002006-04-13T02:31:00.000-07:002006-04-13T02:42:51.290-07:00

If you have not yet tried the new Google Calendar, do so now! I am already loving it! I have been looking for a new online calendar solution for a over a year and now I have finally found a winner! While I usually beat up on Google for many of their latest products, I am greatly enjoying their new online calendar! It works very very well!google calendar google+calendar

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1144719588778044432006-04-10T18:35:00.000-07:002006-04-10T18:40:26.233-07:00

Yesterday I came across one of the most glowing reviews of BlinkList! Obviously, that made all of us smile since the entire team works very hard at making BlinkList better and better.Here is a little blurb from the review:While on my quench for greener pastures, I tried out BlinkList and I was mind boggled to the core with it’s amazingness. Without doubt, I will proclaim that BlinkList is just

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1143760996996581642006-03-30T15:22:00.000-08:002006-03-31T08:04:27.046-08:00

What willl the future of blogging look like? Here's a clue:1. Your blog will be able to recognize who's looking at it and show only relevant posts. No more worries about your mom reading about your late night drinking sessions.2. Your blog notifies friends and groups of interesting posts relevant to them. In New York for the weekend? Put up a message on your Blog and only your friends in New York

Vishenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295415797332861818noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1143297174731630402006-03-25T06:29:00.000-08:002006-03-25T06:41:58.930-08:00

"It's best to do one thing really, really well. Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat." Google's corporate philosophy as of two years ago. Well, times have most certainly changed a lot now that Google has Google chat and a brand new Google finance site.

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1141606690963247032006-03-05T16:38:00.000-08:002006-03-05T16:58:10.986-08:00

From a technology point of view, I love the concept of Edgio, and I love the execution of the new service! Feeding and aggregating content directly from the edge is the future of the web. I really do wish Michael and his team all the best! They have done an excellent job so far. However, let me outline 5 reasons why Edgio will likely fail to gain traction:1) National vs. Local: Edgeio is

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1140938616883887152006-02-25T23:09:00.000-08:002006-02-25T23:23:36.903-08:00

Steve Rubel just declared that the social bookmarking game is over and that Yahoo! (with del.icio.us) has won. I beg to differ! Yes, businesses with network effects are very powerful and it is very hard to catch up with the first mover. However, businesses have only won after they have hit the "knee of the curve" and have truly experienced lift off. Well, today del.icio.us might have huge

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1140890065246686992006-02-25T09:54:00.000-08:002006-02-25T23:31:13.833-08:00

Only 18 Web 2.0 Companies out of 85 listed on this site seem to be hiring at this point.http://www.suckingfish.com/view.do?crumb_id=csid_1184We're happy to be one of them. In fact, we're nuts about seeking out the right talent and right now are receiving about 100 resumes per position. However, the creator of this page did mislable our location. We're now only hiring in the Multimedia Super

Vishenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295415797332861818noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1139558373421581622006-02-09T23:43:00.000-08:002006-02-09T23:59:33.473-08:00

Anyone that knows me knows that I am a VERY hard working person. However, I have never liked to work on the weekends and on the occasions that I have to, I have always let people know that this is a problem. However, reading through Google's and Yahoo!'s blog just makes me realize how warped the sense of work / life balance is at those companies. Do people at Google and Yahoo! not care about

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1139411772200374782006-02-08T07:07:00.000-08:002006-02-08T07:16:12.200-08:00

As promised, we just rolled out an improved tag cloud for your blogs. The new tag cloud that you can add to your blog can be easily customized. Now you can decide whether you want to show and share the most recently tags and sites that you have been blinking (a thought cloud) or whether you want to show your most popular tags (a traditional tag cloud). In addition, you can now customize the

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1138356057869085112006-01-27T01:49:00.000-08:002006-01-27T02:06:39.120-08:00

Today we rolled out an exciting new feature on BlinkList that is the BlinkList thought (tag) cloud for your blog.What is it? Just look at the top right of this blog and you will see the latest tags that I have been using on BlinkList. In a way, this cloud represents what I have been thinking about, which is why we call it a 'thought cloud.' You can click on any of these tags to see the links

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1138264812175940612006-01-26T00:17:00.000-08:002006-01-26T00:59:55.740-08:00

Lots of online sources are confirming that Yahoo! is going to announce the acquisition of Digg early next week. Well, to anyone that has been paying any attention to this space, they should not be surprised. It is the next logical move in Yahoo!'s push into Web 2.0. With the acquisitions of Flickr, del.icio.us, and digg, they would pretty much own the top user generated content sites on the

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1137745441756798162006-01-20T00:15:00.000-08:002006-01-20T00:24:01.756-08:00

I have long been following the mobile market and been wondering when the mobile web will finally start to take off in a big way. I think one of the biggest roadblocks has been that the mobile market consists of hundreds of devices and carriers and no common platform. Why is that such a big deal? Because it hurts innovation since a small developer will not be able to quickly and cheaply develop

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1137744252528899142006-01-19T23:59:00.000-08:002006-01-20T00:04:12.556-08:00

Once you start following the seven habits of highly successful BlinkList users, you will understand why our community members keep writing us fan mail like this. "You guys rock! I have been using blinklist for a little while now and this is definitely one of the most useful sites I have ever stumbled upon. I recommend it to all my friends and for myself, I would be totally, completely and utterly

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1137407133338531392006-01-16T01:58:00.000-08:002006-01-16T02:27:09.303-08:00

Today we added an exciting improvement to the BlinkList discovery pages. The new enhancement is the "Top 3 Contributors" that we are now surfacing when you browse on the public discovery pages on BlinkList.With this enhancements we have made it far easier for you to:1) Discover the topic experts for any given tag2) Find people with a shared passion and interestHere is an example page that shows

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1136894794244901882006-01-10T04:02:00.000-08:002006-01-10T04:06:34.260-08:00

Today we received probably one of the single best customer support emails from one of our BlinkList community members! It was just so good that I wanted to share it with you. Here is a copy of the email that we just received:"You guys rock! I have been using blinklist for a little while now and this is definitely one of the most useful sites I have ever stumbled upon. I recommend it to all my

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1136363274201147702006-01-04T00:27:00.000-08:002006-01-04T01:09:20.980-08:00

Our Lab in Kuala Lumpur has finally been granted MSC Status by the Malaysian Government. The MSC (Multimedia Super Corridor) is South East Asia's version of Silicon Valley; a tech hub where IT companies can come together to pool resources and benefit from tech infrastructure and perks from the government. What does this mean for us? Well, we won't get taxed on revenues for the next 10 years so we

Vishenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295415797332861818noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1136340355802987272006-01-03T18:01:00.000-08:002006-01-03T18:05:55.816-08:00

If you have not heard of AllPeers, you will hear of them soon! Why? AllPeers is a great new file sharing tool that people have been waiting for, for a long time. By the sound of it, it should make it very easy to share files between trusted peers, which is something that most file sharing clients have not enabled before. I see a lot of the potential in AllPeers that I initially saw when I was

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1136282956364128982006-01-03T02:03:00.000-08:002006-01-03T02:09:16.383-08:00

In case you missed it, there is a great new FireFox Extension, the BlinkList toolbar that you can download from mozilla. We have to thank Jan Ole Peek for contributing to the BlinkList community and helping us to developing this excellent toolbar!If you have not done so already, download the toolbar now and please let us know how we can make it even better and better. MikePS: Click on this link

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1135767688469878022005-12-28T02:57:00.000-08:002005-12-28T03:01:28.483-08:00

There is a great discussion thread on Om's blog about people powered search vs. Google. While Om is pessimistic, I think that the discussion thread and user comments are very well worth reading since they bring up some great points. So, spend some time with the comments. However, I have to say that most people lack vision and are just too afraid. I guess the Google hype is to blame for this.

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1135420175478049782005-12-24T02:29:00.000-08:002005-12-24T02:29:35.500-08:00

I writing this post using the new Performancing extension for Firefox.It allows you to update your blog directly from your browser withouthaving to log into Blogger.com and deal with blogger's messy andoutdated posting system.If you're a Firefox user get performancing from this link: http://www.performancing.com/. This is yet another reason why you should be using Firefox. I'm looking forward to

Vishenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295415797332861818noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1135154588965680992005-12-21T00:29:00.000-08:002005-12-21T03:03:19.240-08:00

What is wrong with the web 2.0 workgroup?On the surface, there is nothing wrong with the web 2.0 workgroup. In fact, I have every single one of these blogs in my daily blog reader and love reading what these thought leaders are up to. Together, the web 2.0 workgroup is perhaps the single best source of content for what is going on regarding the future of the web. I read every single blog post

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1135152950671026162005-12-20T23:50:00.000-08:002005-12-21T00:15:50.686-08:00

Today we added another cool enhancement to BlinkList that I am very happy with. What we wanted to do is make our site even more appealing than before and one of the things that was bugging us for the longest time was the main BlinkList button.It used to look like this:As you can probably tell, our old button was functional but nothing much to look at. Well, since we are truly passionate about

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1135053299950174032005-12-19T20:29:00.000-08:002005-12-19T20:34:59.950-08:00

I forgot to mention in our last post that the new tag trees are of course ajax driven. I guess around here that almost goes without saying. That means that we load all of the information on the fly as the user requests it without having to reload the entire page. We are definitely big fans of how ajax is helping to make sites far more intuitive, responsive, and efficient on the bandwidth and

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1135052957230267712005-12-19T20:11:00.000-08:002005-12-19T20:29:17.246-08:00

We just rolled out an exciting new feature on BlinkList that makes online discovery even faster and far more intuitive than before. Jiangti and Hannu, our two key developers are just amazing! Kudos to Jiangti for coming up with this idea and kudos to the two of them for pulling it off in no time! What is it?We call it a "Tag Tree" and it works much better than a tag cloud. Now, when you are

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1134184688589399682005-12-09T18:50:00.000-08:002005-12-09T19:18:08.606-08:00

Well, the news is out, Yahoo! just gobbled up del.icio.us, another leading web 2.0, community, and tagging based site. I have to admit that what Yahoo! is doing is smart from their point of view. They are starting to realize that community, as opposed to technology, could be the big differentiator between them and Google. That is why they first bought Flickr and why del.icio.us is a perfect

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1133422240992618592005-11-30T23:25:00.000-08:002005-11-30T23:31:51.616-08:00

Skype just released its latest version and it rocks! It finally includes many of the key features that I have been waiting for including:- Skype video: I first saw this demo when I was at the Skype office last June before we (eBay) purchased Skype. Their video is far better than video from any other app!- Groups: You can now group your contacts- Personalization: Personalization will be very

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1132219149159762612005-11-17T01:07:00.000-08:002005-11-17T08:14:08.286-08:00

There have been lots of rumors floating about that Google is in talks to purchase Riya! I first learned about these rumors from Niall's blog here.If the rumors are not true, they should be! In other words, ever since I read the review about Riya on Techcrunch, it became very obvious that Riya has potentially a huge competitive advantage.Why? Because they combine tagging with the power of

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1132215253386133712005-11-17T00:02:00.000-08:002005-11-17T00:14:13.410-08:00

It is amazing how much buzz Google Base has received but I honestly don't see why in the world I would want to use it. What's the killer app? What's the one unique advantage of Google base? Why would I as a user want to go there? Does it do anything better than any of the existing services?I think the answer is a clear NO! I just tried to search for some items such as a "BMW in San Francisco

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1131937523293655932005-11-13T18:57:00.000-08:002005-11-13T19:05:23.316-08:00

I am a big fan of Scobles blog and I read it all the time. Why do I read Scoble? Because I love to hear his thoughts on technology and his thoughts on what Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft are up to. Plus, I enjoy reading Scoble's thoughts about some new trends and startups worth watching.However, I am not sure if Scobles goal of not writing about GYM in 100 posts is a good idea if the content

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1131596744659838402005-11-09T20:09:00.000-08:002005-11-09T20:27:22.316-08:00

We are excited to announce a new feature that we just released on BlinkList! The new feature is called the QuickStart page and it allows you to rapidly go to your favorite websites.For those of you that know me and Vishen, we used to build these QuickStart pages on our own so that we could always navigate to all of the sites that we visit on a daily basis. It was like having our own dashboard

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1131260333613458302005-11-05T22:56:00.000-08:002005-11-05T22:58:53.626-08:00

This is a good document (perhaps a little dated but still very valuable) outlining Google's development process on how they keep out churning great new products that users love! Given that everyone including us are obsessing over Google, I thought this was well worth reading. :-)

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1130405484874088092005-10-27T02:26:00.000-07:002005-10-27T02:31:24.896-07:00

We have developed a fun new tool for bloggers to get their blog posts noticed and to help you drive more traffic to your blog!What is "Blink It for blogs"?"Blink It for blogs" is a simple tool that we developed to help your blog readers blink their favorite blog posts to BlinkList with one easy click. Your blog readers can now blink any specific post / entry into their BlinkList account and

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1130203559952528242005-10-24T18:16:00.000-07:002005-10-24T18:25:59.976-07:00

Over the past few weeks, we have quietly rolled out the long awaited "Advanced Search" capabilities. Many of you already discovered this hidden feature just by trying to use the plus sign. Very clever! We often roll out features without highlighting them so that we can start to test them on our site. However, the time has come to make this easily available to everyone. Advanced search allows

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1129972896684654642005-10-22T02:16:00.000-07:002005-10-22T02:21:36.696-07:00

We have been working so hard on BlinkList, that I have not even had the chance to really take the time and write about all of the new features and improvements that we have been working on. Well, turns out I don't need to do this anymore because Solution Watch just prepared an a detailed review that highlights all of the hot new changes we have been making. So, if you want to learn more just

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1129888871271979702005-10-21T03:01:00.000-07:002005-10-21T03:01:11.316-07:00

This quick survey is an attempt to figure out what people love or dislike about their Social Bookmarking Manager. The idea is to collectively share data on what we need to do to push this phenomenon to the mainstream public. Take part in the survey and you get to see the results.read more | digg story

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1129564112474663752005-10-17T08:11:00.000-07:002005-10-17T08:48:32.526-07:00

Today we rolled out another new face lift to www.blinklist.com. We hope you like the changes that we have implemented on the site. The vast majority of all changes came about due to user feedback! We wanted to make social bookmarking and online discovery even simpler, easier, and more fun. Thanks for continuing to send us tons of emails on a daily basis. Your level of support and enthusiasm

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1129206383304821052005-10-13T05:24:00.000-07:002005-10-13T07:43:20.080-07:00

Emily from eHub shared some great user statistics on how her blog has been progressing over the past month. Her success has been nothing short of stellar. eHub and the social web:1796 users have bookmarked eHub at del.icio.us.568 diggs at digg.com36 blinks at BlinkList. Looks like del.icio.us still has a commanding lead over us. That is not surprising given that we are just getting started.

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1128693858761905102005-10-07T05:48:00.000-07:002005-10-07T07:04:28.180-07:00

Yeah! We have made it to the next stage of BlinkList. I have to say that we have some incredible developers on our team and all the credit goes clearly to them. If there are things you don't like on the site then it was probably me and not them. ;)Hannu and Jiangti have been super busy and done a tremendous job. Over here we are all excited to present to you a whole new and improved

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1128390656223160532005-10-03T18:37:00.000-07:002005-10-03T18:52:47.470-07:00

Scoble and Danny are having quite a rant about "The Perfect Search Engine" and one of the things that they want is better query refinement. Robert Scoble Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement. So Do I!One of the things that Danny points out is that search engines used to be better in the early days when companies like Ask Jeeves and MSN employed editors to help people find what they want

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1127978894779013332005-09-29T00:16:00.000-07:002005-09-29T00:28:14.790-07:00

I just came across a brilliant piece of writing that explains why tagging is so much better than categorization. The beauty of the analysis that I found is that even the average Joe can understand it. Clearly articulating why tagging is better than categorization is not easy but Rashmi, the author of the article, has done a really nice job. Here are a few of the key takeaways from the article:

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1127800031827482042005-09-26T22:44:00.000-07:002005-09-26T22:47:11.826-07:00

Interesting, I just got the first comment spam on this blog. Either the blog is becoming more popular, or the last blog post "what a wonderful day" somehow invited some spam since I got these comments very quickly. So, now I have had to turn on the word verification. Too bad there is too many bad guys out there trying to ruin something that was working perfectly well. Hopefully we can keep

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1127797890761098252005-09-26T22:03:00.000-07:002005-09-26T22:11:30.766-07:00

I just wanted to say that I am fired up today! I have not been this excited in a long time. Ok, if you know me, then you know that I am almost always high energy and very excited about the things we are working on. :-)However, today I am hitting a high note. We keep getting emails from customers thanking us about "keeping it human" and that we really care! We do and thanks for noticing and

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1126694249795649562005-09-14T03:16:00.000-07:002005-09-14T03:37:29.803-07:00

We added a small but nifty little feature to BlinkList today. One of the things you can do on BlinkList is star (*) your favorite links. However, in the past, when you checked out another user account, you could not see his favorite links under a given tag. Well, that has just changed. Now, when you are browsing on BlinkList's public tags or checking out another user, you will always see a

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1126491150720280092005-09-11T19:05:00.000-07:002005-09-11T19:12:30.726-07:00

Digital Tech Life Says:"BlinkList - Cream of The Crop""After using BlinkList and importing all my bookmarks, I have to say that this is definitely one of the top social bookmarking sites today, if not the best. It's fast, reliable, and it has so many options that make it a service that everyone can probably find a use for. The only drawbacks that I can see are that they are fairly new and don't

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1126263267495654462005-09-09T03:46:00.000-07:002005-09-09T03:54:27.500-07:00

In case you did not know, BlinkList offers a very smart tag cloud. Initially, I thought that the tag cloud on BlinkList was largely there for fun. In other words, I can click on "My Cloud" to see a tag cloud of all of my tags on BlinkList. That is cool, however, not really all that useful. At the same time, one of the things that I have always wanted is the ability to further drill down into

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1126193718165051162005-09-08T07:58:00.000-07:002005-09-08T08:35:18.176-07:00

I am sure you all have heard about the latest rumor that eBay might be buying Skype. If you ask me, it makes perfect sense.eBay = person to person global ecommerce leaderKijiji = person to person local classifieds leaderPayPal = person to person payments leaderSkype = person to person communications leaderAll markets, segments share the same characteristics:- Person to person- Driven by viral,

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1125909916347985232005-09-05T01:30:00.000-07:002005-09-05T01:45:16.356-07:00

I just dug through our BlinkList data to find out the top 10 tags on our site and wanted to share them with you.Here is the top 10 list:1) software2) blog3) programming4) tools5) to read6) music7) design8) blogs9) news10) ajaxI personally think that the "to read" tag is by far the most fascinating because it shows that people love to use BlinkList for storing and quickly retrieving

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1125600607724981312005-09-01T11:46:00.000-07:002005-09-01T11:53:35.456-07:00

Skype just released a new beta that is offering some key updates I have been waiting for, for a long time. The two biggest improvements are call-forwarding and more personalization. As most of you know, I am a big FAN of Skype, so I just had to let you know how excited I am about these enhancements!Here is the detailed list of new features:We’re making Skype even better — try the new beta

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1125467441345669112005-08-30T22:45:00.000-07:002005-08-30T22:50:41.353-07:00

While I was not able to update our blog as much as I would have liked during my relocation to KL, our developers have been busy churning out new enhancements to BlinkList. Here are the latest changes to our site. http://www.blinklist.com/news/what.new/">BlinkList new featuresYou can also follow this link to check out our frequent updates going forward. In the future, I hope to just show this

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1125466031181712182005-08-30T22:22:00.000-07:002005-08-30T22:27:11.186-07:00

Hurray! Our team has finally united for the first time at our office in Kuala Lumpur. As most of you know, I sold all of my stuff except for two suitcases and just moved out to KL to join the rest of our development team. While I am sure that we will one day have an office in Silicon Valley again, I am excited about joining our strong team in KL. I was already jazzed up about all the cool

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1124180999052567762005-08-16T01:21:00.000-07:002005-08-16T01:30:57.083-07:00

Just wanted to announce that we released the ability to import bookmarks from del.icio.us. This is important for all users that started with del.icio.us and had no ability to move their bookmarks over to www.blinklist.com. After all, it is understandable that nobody wants to start from scratch. So, now that this will no longer hold you back, I hope that all of you are going to give us a try.

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1123837320498055072005-08-12T01:47:00.000-07:002005-08-12T02:02:00.503-07:00

One of the most requested features for BlinkList has been the ability to add the ability to search for multiple tags. So, we have just added the following search features:1) AND - ability to drill down and search for multiple tags by using the (+) plus sign between two tags:Example 1: tag 1+tag 2Example 2: Ajax+PhpExample 3: news+tech blogAs you can see from example 3, the AND feature works

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1123779952761007982005-08-11T09:48:00.000-07:002005-08-15T01:26:18.650-07:00

If you are interested in learning about AJAX, then one of the most important posts you can read is by Adaptive Path here.BlinkList is also quickly turning into one of the best resources to find the latest and greatest information on AJAX since we have lots of power users that are leading AJAX developers. http://www.blinklist.com/tag/ajax/We have long been big fans and proponents of AJAX because

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1123310415777132162005-08-05T23:28:00.000-07:002005-08-05T23:42:16.896-07:00

We got another great customer testimonial today. Here it is:"The second thing you’ll notice is the new Blinklist feed on the side. Blinklist is a site very similar to del.icio.us in that it’s a social bookmarking network. Blinklist is essentially the poweruser’s del.icio.us, and it gives me a lot more tools to do what I want easily." SourceTha amazing thing about the review is that the customer

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1123259874413598572005-08-05T09:33:00.000-07:002005-08-05T09:40:10.813-07:00

Just wanted to let you all know of a new feature that we rolled out on blinklist today. We just added the ability for users to leave comments on a site, whether they want to blink it or not. I would say that right now this feature is in alpha so be gentle and kind. :-)There is lots of ways we are going to improve it over time. What you will see is that we are essentially developing a quick

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1123015470109487752005-08-02T13:41:00.000-07:002005-08-02T13:44:30.120-07:00

I just came across an article that stated:"As much as 29.5% of clicks on Google's AdWords ads could be fraudulent."I personally just don´t understand why a company like Google that says "do no evil" will not give their advertisers more transparency and information on what is going on with AdWords. Very disappointing. To read more about the latest study click hereMikeGoogle click+fraud ppc

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1123002064031840132005-08-02T09:54:00.000-07:002005-08-02T10:03:17.393-07:00

I stumbled upon another exciting BlinkList review today.Here is a very flattering quote that we received:"First off, ditch your del.icio.us list and migrate to blinklist. Why? It’s tagging system makes more sense, the interface is more intuitive, and it just looks better. "If you want to read the complete review just click hereVery exciting stuff!Mikesocial+bookmarking del.icio.us delicious

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122929063207871182005-08-01T13:37:00.000-07:002005-08-01T13:47:55.720-07:00

We got another excellent review by TechCrunch. These guys do nothing but profile Web 2.0 companies and it is great to see that they are very excited about BlinkList. Here are a few quotes from their review:° "BlinkList is a social bookmarking service built on ajax.° "BlinkList is very buttoned up and has some excellent features."° "Overall, BlinkList is a worthy addition to the ranks of social

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122795468420976292005-07-31T00:30:00.000-07:002005-07-31T00:38:42.076-07:00

I have to admit that I was a little sceptical when I first heard about the Blogher conference but it sounds like an amazing event and one where we can learn a lot from.Here are some inspring user comments that were left:____________________________________Some readers said, this conference is a dumb idea. Bloggers are bloggers. Why DO we need these events. Blogging as a pracxtice, as a form, is a

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122792288654538222005-07-30T23:37:00.000-07:002005-07-30T23:44:48.663-07:00

If you are into web development and have not heard about AJAX, I would highly recommend that you start doing so right away. It is one of the coolest new framworks used for web development. The things you can do with Ajax are pretty sweet. We are using it on BlinkList for many different features to improve the usability of our site.Like most things these days, I would recommend getting started

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122687339341693212005-07-29T18:30:00.000-07:002005-07-29T18:35:39.346-07:00

I found a great blog post that makes me even more excited about the future of the web. This is great stuff! I have a big grin on my face right now that is how exciting I think this it. The web is turning into the ultimate medium of self expression, turning all of us into creators! That is wonderful and the beginning of something new and profound! 2015The Web continues to evolve from a world

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122618008393310572005-07-28T23:13:00.000-07:002005-07-28T23:21:33.726-07:00

There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. Come on! Take the jump and start living the dream! Here is a good blog post on how the costs of entrepreneurship are dramatically lower today than just 5 to 10 years ago. "Excite.com took $3,000,000 to get from idea to launch. JotSpot took $100,000." continue readingIf you are adventurous enough

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122586164247554602005-07-28T14:16:00.000-07:002005-07-28T14:36:51.200-07:00

Lately there has been a lot of noise regarding:- MyYahoo- MyGoogle- Start.com (Microsoft's start page)- MyAOLIt looks like the launch / latest release of all these sites has been celebrated and every blogger and paper is writing about them. They are obviously going after RSS and news aggregators in a major way so that part is newsworthy. However, what I see is actually a lack of originality.

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122431229248531462005-07-26T19:20:00.000-07:002005-07-28T00:33:23.093-07:00

We're happy to say, we're looking for an accountant/customer happiness manager and another programming wiz kid. Visitors to almost all our sites are up and it looks like we're going to have to start hiring again.We really love the Apple credo "Think Different" - so when it came to recruting we wanted to offer prospective employees something different from many other companies. Here's a

Vishenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00295415797332861818noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122345138246437072005-07-25T19:08:00.000-07:002005-07-25T19:32:18.266-07:00

Ask and you shall receive! We are happy to announce several major improvements to BlinkList that our dedicated community of users asked for and several improvements that you did not ask for but are already starting to embrace!Here is the list of new features rolled out this Monday:1) Importing of bookmarksYou can now import all of your bookmarks from FireFox or Internet Explorer. So, now you

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122281805178127922005-07-25T01:44:00.000-07:002005-07-25T01:56:45.200-07:00

I just wanted to send out another quick thank you note to craig giving us, and I mean all of us, one of the single best websites online! I am currently selling just about everything I own to get ready for my move to KL, and selling things on craigslist has been a breeze. I especially love combining Skype with craigslist. I recently became a SkypeIn customer (I now have a 415 number that rings

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1122015672509975762005-07-21T23:51:00.000-07:002005-07-22T00:01:12.526-07:00

Today I stumbled upon the single best review we have received to date of BlinkList. This was not only a stunning review because it was super positive, it was stunning because it was full of insights into the huge potential of "social software" and into how a site like BlinkList might help transform "social learning" and "social knowledge sharing."Here are a few paragraphs from the review:_______

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121929597422085782005-07-20T23:52:00.000-07:002005-07-21T00:06:37.430-07:00

Here is an article you HAVE to read! It is by the MIT Technology Review and it is an article about web 2.0 and the future of the social web. Click here to read the articleHere are a few sections from the article:_________________________________________________________The third trend nudging us into a new era of computing is probably the most important and the least expected. It is the

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121881660708446582005-07-20T10:39:00.000-07:002005-07-20T15:22:42.203-07:00

Today I received a great little comment on my blog that said:"I think Blinklist is a genious service and I love your simple implementation and your candid blog."So far so good! I am already dancing with a big smile on my face. We have been doing that a lot at work lately. Laughing and smiling, don't forget. See, you are already feeling better just because you smiled. :-)However, then the

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121833267805068992005-07-19T21:14:00.000-07:002005-07-19T21:21:07.813-07:00

Here is a great article that was shared with me via BlinkList today. It pointed out a key learning that helped FireFox gain traction:"It wasn`t until we implemented a very capable migration system in Firefox, which carried over the user`s IE favourites, cookies, history, passwords, etc, that regular people started moving over in serious numbers -- and staying (and bringing others over)."It if

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121748343854373042005-07-18T20:00:00.000-07:002005-07-18T22:31:32.320-07:00

Here is a great quote that I stumbled upon again over the weekend. It is a famous quote by Einstein and reads:"If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it."I think I am going to post this quote on my monitor because it is so relevant to what we are currently working on. Ever since launching BlinkList, the suggestions to

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121411356706544162005-07-15T00:03:00.000-07:002005-07-15T00:09:16.713-07:00

We got some additional fan mail today that I wanted to share! This one was too good to pass up. This is what gets us fired up and keeps us motivated to stay at it even while the big guys like Yahoo! are now moving into this market. Perhaps we are crazy but we are just too passionate about all of our blink ideas!Here is the customer letter:___________________________________I signed up and

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121315287930284562005-07-13T21:19:00.000-07:002005-07-13T21:28:07.936-07:00

Customer Passion, the customer experience management company has started to use BlinkList to syndicate all of their "customer experience articles" on their site.This is another great example of how an easy bookmarking tool, combined with RSS, and feed to javascript syndication and quickly turn any customer and any website into an aggregator of high quality content and information on the web. If

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121223857391944522005-07-12T20:01:00.000-07:002005-07-12T20:04:17.396-07:00

I just came across a piece of writing by John Battelle that I just had to post given all the talk about disintermediation that I have been involved with at eBay over the past two years. Here it is:By John BattelleDisintermediation is overrated.Those who fear disintermediation should in fact be afraid of irrelevance -- disintermediation is just another way of saying that you’ve become irrelevant

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121156023845822972005-07-12T01:10:00.000-07:002005-07-12T01:19:00.620-07:00

We added a couple of features using Ajax to BlinkList overnight.1) Check out the new BlinkList bookmarklet tool. If you are already a BlinkList customer, please install the tool again into your browser. The new tool enables a cool feature that lots of customers have asked for.When you are surfing on a page you want to BlinkList, you can now highlight any text on the page and once you click on "

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121145950350653482005-07-11T22:21:00.000-07:002005-07-11T22:25:50.356-07:00

I found a great post and review of MyWeb 2.0 from Yahoo! vs. del.icio.us. If you want to get up to speed on personal and social bookmarking services this is a good place to start. Of course I have to throw blinklist in the mix there and say that if you are going to check out MyWeb 2.0 from Yahoo! then definitely check out blinklist. Perhaps not as rich in features (yet) but hopefully more fun

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121067536013228752005-07-11T00:34:00.000-07:002005-07-11T00:38:56.020-07:00

Most people think that Google is the king of search. This is true. However, there are plenty of specialty search engines that I love and just wanted to share in case you have not yet discovered them.1) Technorati.com - find out what is hot in the blogging world2) Findory - great personalized news search engine3) Google maps - Ok, I guess Google does deserve to be on this list. :-)4)

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121052477189291242005-07-10T20:17:00.000-07:002005-07-10T20:27:57.196-07:00

Just wanted to share another interesting site where we are trying to demonstrate the concept and power of RSS, tagging, and social bookmarking. The site is called "Best of craigslist (unoffical)"It is interesting because it gives the community and the craigslist users another avenue to share their favorite craigslist postings. If you have never checked out the best of craigslist links, they are

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1121031044029299622005-07-10T14:15:00.000-07:002005-07-10T14:51:45.616-07:00

Web 2.0 is going to change the web as we know it. What do you end up with when you give users the ability to annotate, organize, and syndicate the web in anyway they see fit? This is even more powerful than what Tivo did to the TV. Instead of just watching what you like, you can also re-mix the whole web and syndicate it and experience it just the way you want it. For example, I was just

Mind Valleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087050393004273512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10512173.post-1120928612419232312005-07-09T09:58:00.000-07:002005-07-09T10:03:32.420-07:00

Today we found a blogger who is talking about the benefits of using blinklist and social bookmarking engines to find, store, and access high quality content on the web. Hannu points out that while he loves to use Yahoo! Video search to find great videos, he then loves blinklist even more to get a community of users to help him aggregate the best vidoes in his domain (martial arts) that he is

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We added another improvement to BlinkList today. You can now filter your search results to narrow down your options. For example, if you are interested in all the sites that have been tagged under "funny" and "humor" you can now quickly filter your search results.This is especially powerful because as soon as you start drilling into a given tag on blinklist we show you all of the related tags.

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Blinklist today released a really cool new tool. This was the most wanted request that we have received from many bloggers and RSS fans out on the web. Now you can: Syndicate Your Blinklist Links into Your WebpageWe heard repeatedly, that one of the things users want to be able to do is to syndicate their content across the web. In addition, many bloggers are keeping a long list of links on

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Our development team has made tremendous progress over the past week releasing many new features and enhancements to BlinkList. I just wanted to thank everyone for all of the overwhelming positive feedback and suggestions for improvements that we have been receiving. It is great to see that our early adopters and users love blinklist! We repeately hear that this is one of the coolest and

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If you are a big fan of user generated content like the Wikipedia (I love that site), then you are going to love wikihow. The vision of this site was originally to offer how to guides for sale. That is how www.eHow.com got started.However, since that model did not scale (not enough fresh content and not enough buyers per article) they have turned the model upside down and have now just become a

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The Internet is rapidly changing and one of the major trends unfolding is that we are entering a period of increased sharing. Initially, online communities used to be centered around commerce (eBay, craigslist) and entertainment (Online games, etc.).However, this is rapidly changing. Users are increasingly overwhelmed with too much information, and even search engines like Google are having a

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I found an interesting blog on the long-tail and how we are entering a new stage of production. In an environment where it becomes cheaper and easier to produce lots of content the emphasis will shift from deciding what gets produced in the first place to helping people to find and identify the content they are most interested in.I think social bookmarking and sharing of information between

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I found a new tool today that I wanted to share. This one is very useful if you are posting a lot on your blog and want to increase the findability of your blog.I am talking about a new tag generator for technorati tags. This is extremely useful and very fast, simple, and easy to use.Click here to go to the tag generator.It does not yet appear to work for keyword phrases but hopefully they will

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