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Kevin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:01:29 -0000

Very cool service - I've also tried to cobble together crude implementations of this in the past and am very much looking forward to a non-enterprise version of this. Looks very clean and easily customizable. One minor point, my browser didn't pick up an XML feed from any of the pages you created above. I'm assuming that these are available in RSS, but would be nice if it was auto-discoverable directly from the page.

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Matt Cohen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:11:03 -0000

Excellent questions - I'll comment on the general stuff more in depth over time once we start our blog this week (and post the link here when we do), but for most people we talk to, the alternative today is aggregating and filtering by hand.

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Marc Vermut — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:09:45 -0000

Matt, thanks for the clarification. It looks like we are finally getting to the point of having smart engines that are able to assemble and analyze a host of "popularity" and "importance" measurements to automatically identify relevant and valuable content within a narrow to wide context.

Most of those engines are currently focused on providing individual aggregation and recommendation services (i.e. Friendfeed, Feedly, Readburner, etc.), so it's interesting to see a B2B play. Who do you face as competitors in this space? And, more importantly, what will differentiate you from a consumer aggregation platform that is feedable into a blog widget? And can this technology/approach extend to more intelligent advertising?

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Matt Cohen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:48:07 -0000

There are of course many different angles on social media, just like there are on technology as a whole. Louis configured his Social Media OneSpot in a very technology-focused way - not surprising, given his interest areas - but Jeremiah's incredibly useful and insightful blog (one of my personal top feeds) is more about overall trends than technology. Jeremiah's posts show up more often in our somewhat broader OneSpot-powered Social Media and Marketing demonstration site (which also powers our newsletter - see my comment above).

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Matt Cohen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:38:54 -0000

Duncan - you're right: today the product is designed for larger companies, but we're hard at work on a small publisher version of the product, which we will announce in the near future. If you'd like to receive updates, as well as great online media and marketing stories from around the Web, just sign up for our newsletter. OneSpot is designed to be a powerful and flexible tool for publishers - or those who want to become publishers - and we want to get it to everyone as soon as we can.

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Louis Gray — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:48:00 -0000

Ah. That makes sense. Jeremiah's might have come up due to the feeds being related. I wonder if he was lower down the list.

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Marc Vermut — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:17:53 -0000

You missed my slight dig at OneSpot...in that you would expect his blog to come up in a "Social Media" meme stream...not about you Louis, you're doing just fine.

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Mark Dykeman — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:09:17 -0000

Maybe the new FriendFeed Room feeds/subscriptions will help?

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Louis Gray — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:43:40 -0000

It's absolutely possible you are right. It was my belief that this was spreading from the corporate paywall to us wee little bloggers, but I see what you see as well. I'll definitely follow up.

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Gustav — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:57:54 -0000

I don't find any page to sign up for OneSpot. Just a link to contact them for a demo.

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Duncan Riley — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:22:48 -0000

Maybe I read it wrong this time and the other week, but this is a paid, enterprise solution right? cool tech and idea, but always going to be a niche player in terms of reach (ie for those willing to pay). If I'm wrong, where do I sign up :-)

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Louis Gray — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:38:30 -0000

He has been mentioning FriendFeed as delivering micromemes. But I can't keep track of everybody for every post. I know Jeremiah does a good job and it's good to see his enthusiasm in this space.

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Marc Vermut — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:32:36 -0000

Shouldn't poor Jeremiah (http://www.web-strategist.c... have come up as well in the social media memetracker?