just signed up for account, google FAILED on trying to find a socialmedian gadget for igoogle homepage, anyone got a link or is there even one yet? - shayne catrett
should work just fine creating a google gadget using any socialmedian rss feed. I've done several myself. Will check again now. - Jason Goldberg
Today's major release addresses 4 big areas that you asked us to improve:
1. More and Easier ways to get your content into socialmedian
2. Enable bloggers to promote their sites on socialmedian
3. Better ways to find hot discussions and popular stories
4. Make the socialmedian site more publicly available
With new this release -- which enables socialmedian users to feed their newsworthy content from popular sites like Twitter, Google Reader, Digg, Delicious, and FriendFeed -- we hope to make some significant progress towards socialmedian being the site that Delivers the News that You Need to Know. - Jason Goldberg
By now, many of you are familiar with "life-streaming" services like FriendFeed (which I'm a big fan of). Life-streaming services enable people to connect feeds from their favorite sites to automatically steam in their content from their other sites and share it with their social graph. This was a big advancement from earlier generation services which required the user to share one piece of content at a time.
With socialmedian's new "News-Streaming" features, we're addressing a related but more challenging problem. Our users asked us if we could help them automatically share their "newsworthy" content with socialmedian. Meaning, they want to be able to automatically stream and share news-related content with socialmedian w/o also sharing their personal content or other non-relevant content. - Jason Goldberg
For example, the user might want their Twitter tweets on the 2008 election shared with socialmedian, or their tweets on an article they are reading on Google Chrome shared with socialmedian, but they don't want their Tweets on their visit to the Shake Shack auto-shared with a news site. Similarly, the user might want their video or photos from the Obama rally or the TechCrunch50 event auto-shared on socialmedian, but not the video or photos of their kid's birthday party. - Jason Goldberg
Adding another layer of complexity, once the content gets to socialmedian, we need to make sure to share it not only with the right people, but also with the right topical news networks.
So, we had to create a News-specific form of content streaming which would enable users to easily hook up their feeds to socialmedian and get just the right content in and shared to the right people and pages. We call it "News-Streaming" - Jason Goldberg
I definitely love the new additions, especially the google reader integration. - Rob Diana
My favorite of the new features is Twitter to socialmedian. It enables me to effectively sms socialmedian by sending a text to twitter and including short code #sm to get that text automatically delivered to socialmedian and shared with my followers. - Jason Goldberg
I think it's pathetic how any valid political attack on Palin is automatically labeled as "sexist". Republicans are going to end up setting equality for women in politics back about 30 years after this campaign. - Nathaniel Payne
Setting back equality for women by 30 years wouldn't meet with the GOP platform - they're trying for two hundred. - Chuck LeDuc Díaz
Yes they do and they also eat up unemployment, union busting, foreclosures, and dead American soldiers and then spit it back out into their faces. - Brad Nickel
