In the ‘Sphere - April 29th

Some of our favorite new partner sites to go live the past few days with our Sphere Related Content plugin include: Photographer’s Journey; Real Estate Marketing Guide; DIY Dollars; Blogpusure; Bismut; Music & Personals; Colossians Three Sxteen; Text 4 Free Blog; Geeky DBA; and one of my favorite gadget sites, PMP Today. Always fun to discover new sites and even more fun to discover sites using our Related Content plug-in.

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Hollywood in the ‘Sphere

I’m a big Hollywood news fan, the kind of guy that buys the map to the stars home when in Hollywood. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that in a week when Sphere Related Content went live on Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s All Things D site, I’m just as excited about our Read more

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All Things D - In the Sphere

Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and John Paczkowski launched All Things D this evening. I met with Kara and Walt in Washington last month to update them on Sphere. As we talked, All Things D felt like a natural partner for the Sphere Related Content plug-in. The site, powered by WordPress, is really Read more

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WordPress.org Bloggers Getting The Word Out

A couple of weeks ago, we made our Sphere Related Content plug-in available to all WordPress.org bloggers. It’s gotten a great reception so far. As of yesterday, over 1,000 WordPress.org bloggers have implemented the plug-in on their sites. So far, we’ve gotten a number of emails in addition to the comments left on the WordPress.org Plug-in Directory - pretty cool. Read more

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Media General Sites Go Live

Sphere Related Content went live on a number of leading Media General sites on Thursday. Media General is an independent, publicly owned communications company with a number of leading newspaper and television properties based in the Southeast. We’re always excited about new partner sites going live and it’s a great opportunity for Sphere to play a role in connecting a broader set of Internet readers to the great content being created by bloggers. Here are a few links worth checking out: NBC17 (Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill, N.C.); Turnto10 (Providence / New Bedford R.I.); and InRich (Richmond, VA).

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We’re Crunching It!

See the nice post by Mikael at IslamCrunch - thx Mikael!

In the ‘Sphere - April 20th

Some new partner sites worth checking out: Nut Cup Sports; Fiddelke; Sheetudeep; Tradergav; Teknobites and Open Source Learnings. Always fun to discover new sites and even more fun to discover sites using our Related Content plug-in.

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Sphere Related Content for MoveableType Bloggers

We quietly enabled MT bloggers to add Sphere Related Content to their site through a Feedburner FeedFlare. We made this available after Amy Webb sent us a note Read more

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In the ‘Sphere - April 18th

Some of our favorite new partner sites to go live the past few days with our Sphere It widget include: Poliblogger by Steven D. Taylor; Gagan Kaul Blog by Gagan Kaul; Read more

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In the ‘Sphere - April 17th

Some new partner sites worth checking out: Chris Webb: Publishing, Media and Technology; SEO Feed; Mortgage Market Daily; Islam Crunch; Brandon Werner; 2008 Central; Read more

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Publishing 2.0′Sphere

I started reading Scott Karp’s Publishing 2.0 blog on publishing a few years ago - it’s one of my favorite blogs for insightful analysis of the convergence of media and technology. I had dinner with Scott during a recent trip to Washington and we agreed to create a custom
Sphere Related Content widget for his site. It’s now live on his site. Lot’s and lot’s of great content here so I hope you’ll check out Publishing 2.0.

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A MustRead for Founders: FoundRead

Our good partner GigaOm Network launched a new blog this evening, FoundRead. The GigaOm team shares office space with Sphere and the frenetic energy has been infectious on us all as they’ve moved from an “idea” to “let’s make it happen” to “making it happen” and capped off by hitting the start button at a celebration with several of the Valley’s star Founders this evening. Phew!

FoundRead is for all founders of a business, not just the geek crowd. It’s a shared resource where you can ask questions or share your experiences. If you’re an entrepreneur or thinking about the proverbial leap of faith into becoming one, FoundRead is a Must Read.

Congrats to the GigaOm Network team.

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Unshackled from Linking Power Laws…..

…..well, we think it does!

Brian Oberkirk wrote a nice piece on how the Sphere Related Content widget creates connections where none previously existed - you can see Brian’s post here. As Brian points out, Read more

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CBS’Sphere!

We’re all giddy over today’s announcement of our newest partner, CBS News. The Sphere Related Content widget has been added to their site, creating another great opportunity for Internet readers to connect to the blogosphere. CBS is one of those venerable brands that makes you feel special with whom to be a partner. CBS has a long tradition of innovation and journalism excellence. Embracing the blogosphere is yet another example of their open and progressive approach to creating the most compelling user experience for their customers.

CBS News content is also being crawled and indexed at Sphere.com, giving our users another quality content source. Thanks to Betsy Morgan and Bill Martens at CBS News for embracing the blogosphere and for their unwavering support in partnering with Sphere.

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