Saturday, July 4, 2009

Blogging - Shaping the Social Visions

The growing importance of blogging and its impact remains undisputed, even after more than half a decade first Blogging 101 have seen the light. Supported by micro-blogging, social media has changed journalism. Citizen journalists (i.e. bloggers, social media users) post photos of fast-breaking events, and cover stories from a different angle than traditional media does, in a collaborative manner of producing content. Being driven by community, rather than profit or someone's interest, and in an iterative process to 1) create, 2) publish, 3) get reactions, and 4) improve - such stories become especially valuable.

News organizations are still important, but the pieces are in the end shaped by community, its dynamics and the velocity of information. With the objective of summarizing the above, and the ways to support the distribution of social content, we'd like to share a short presentation, as follows.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

NevaCamp - White Nights BarCamp Announcement

The future web and media, ventures and startups, and StartupVision contest - are the main topics of NevaCamp conference, the first barcamp to be held in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation during 26-28 June 2009.

Participants from Europe, Russia and Central Asia are invited to meet and share experiences, discuss web trends, and develop the environment to build promising startups for the online community. It's a great event to connect startupers, bloggers, media representatives, entrepreneurs and investors. And of course it's a great time to be in Saint-Petersburg to witness the beautiful White Nights.

The image below will lead you to more details and help you be there; just click on it.
 NevaCamp conference

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Winners Rewarded, Wishes Collected

BlogUpp! Contest WinnersHappy to know many enjoy BlogUpp! just the way it is, keep discovering community blogs, and promote each other continuously.

As you know, we announced a contest back in April to encourage everyone of you have a say on what's necessary in BlogUpp!, and identify the needed new features. Today we are ending the contest, and are pleased to announce the 3 winners who contributed valuable suggestions.

These are: Radu, AG and Mike (as named in the comments of contest post). And because N.D.'s suggestion is already in our implementation schedule, as something that we believe is important - we'll have in the end 4 (instead of 3) contest winners who will be given bonus impressions. Winners, check them soon in your stats!

We've taken note of all the features requested, and will be working on them, in the best interests of the entire community. Thanks everyone and congrats to the winners!

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

New Features You Need. Contest Announced

BlogUpp! new featuresYou are invited to suggest new features You think BlogUpp! should have. We want to hear and meet your needs, to make a success of your blog.

Please comment them down, and within 1 month or so - we'll list an update with requested new features that got the most of supporters. Note that your suggestions should follow our core principles - automated blog promotion, non-obtrusiveness, and lack of registration required. The initiators of top 3 ideas will be rewarded with bonus impressions, respectively - extra-promotion through BlogUpp! service.

Thereafter we'll do our best implementing them. So, let us know what's your need, bring supporters for your idea and make everybody win!

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

BlogUpp! - 1 Year of Service

BlogUpp! birthdayWe're happy to share with you that BlogUpp! becomes today a 1-year grown start-up. It launched small, and now reaches millions of impression of promoted blogs. We're proud to serve and build on international scale blogger communities speaking same languages, connect related minds, and help find Your Reader.

During the year that passed we've been listening to your recommendations on making the service better, worked on them, have had the quality in focus and the blog promotion efficiency. In our quest for simplicity we managed to implement easy solutions that provide the added value. Here are some of them you've got now, and which weren't available at launch:
Analytics through OpenID;
Extra-promotion on sale;
Widget customization to fit your blogs;
BlogUpp! gadget for Google funs;
Real-time thumbnail update;
BlogUpp! directory - the latest in work, which is meant to show at a glance what's new and hot in the blogosphere, and of course give your blogs the extra-exposure.

Contextual targeting is ubiquitous, but new methods gain popularity, and we at BlogUpp! strive to provide a better matching, user behavior based.

Many of You have spread the word about BlogUpp!. Some of the influent blogs, such as TheNextWeb and Startup Meme - have shared the info about the service. And most recently BlogUpp! has got pitched on TechCrunch Elevator Pitches.

Enriching the user experience - that will be keeping us busy ahead. If you have something to say - we'd love to hear it from you via email, Twitter or a comment.

Thank you all for being with us, and for being a part of BlogUpp! community!

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Your Voice Is Important, Please Make It Count

BlogUpp! pitch is now listed on TechCrunch's Elevator Pitches. You're kindly invited to drop by and vote / comment on the pitch.

BlogUpp! Pitch on TechCrunch

That can potentially bring BlogUpp! on TechCrunch, and greatly expand our community of bloggers. Ultimately, everyone will benefit as it'll make your blogs promoted on a much larger scale, and allow you discover new great blogs of other fellow bloggers.

Your input is very much needed, and we assure that it'll not take much of your time. Please visit BlogUpp! pitch page, and make your vote.

Together we can do more.
Thank You!

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Mindboggling Science Shared by Juan Enriquez on TED

A recent TED talk left a profound impression through its thoughtful approach and healthy dose of humor, on science development and its future impacts. Here it goes embedded:

What's your say, do you have anything to blog about that?

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Monday, February 2, 2009

BlogUpp! Demo Now Available

Automated Blog Promotion with BlogUpp! is a demo placed on YouTube, which shows how to promote your blog through the widget. Please note that "watch in high quality" mode is available, and it is the recommended option for better viewing. Here goes the embedded video.


The users of other video-sharing services are invited to watch and share the same demo within their preferred communities, by clicking on the image of the service:
BlipTV BlogUpp! DemoDailyMotion BlogUpp! DemoMetacafe BlogUpp! DemoVimeo BlogUpp! Demo

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Monday, January 26, 2009

So, What's The Fuss About?

Take a look at the comics below, on how the stock market works (click to enlarge it).
Stock Market Comics

Is it far from a real scene? Think about it.
Especially if it happens you work in the field, and are fond of blogging about it.

Generally speaking, word of mouth is a powerful instrument, and being a blogger is responsible. Objectivity should be a priority while blogging, and gathering facts before writing on a topic, will help you be referred as a trustworthy and reliable source by your audience.

May your blogging be successful and enjoyable!

// Image origin: 1989, International Herald Tribune

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Prices Reviewed. Surprise Yourself

BlogUpp! Pricing In continuation to our earlier impressions acquisition notice, we'd like to announce the change of prices for extra impressions.

You are challenged to check the figures yourself. Just enter into your BlogUpp! stats and see the difference. Should you need help accessing your stats, please refer the OpenID tutorial posted on our blog.

Inquiries related to business advertising with BlogUpp! are most welcome by email, via "Contact us" link from the main page.

// Image by Brooks Elliott

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