Friday, July 30, 2010
The Future of RSS - Is There a Future for RSS?
The reality is that RSS is pervasive on the web, has achived massive adoption by web publishers and is a widely accepted standard (albeit a lot of variations) for content syndication. In fact, RSS is now being used exactly as it should, a technology for content syndication between publishers and applications. Its use as a widely adopted consumer tool is destined to fail though. It is a technology first and foremost. RSS readers have primarily proven themselves in the early adopter community.
RSS is going to be around for a long time. It will continue to develop as new content and standards emerges on the web. The uses for RSS are only limited by our own imagination. The RSS feeds are now combined with social media applications, such as Facebook Fan Pages and Twitter, creating new syndication channels. There are many more developments going on in this area alone. IngBoo and other companies continuously come out with new innovative ways to leverage content feeds and social media.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
We Like Jobs!
- Connect and share continuously, and
- User-defined (call it "intent" if you like) context for the connection.
More and more people call Facebook home (over 500M in fact). Consequently, the news feed is becoming an important starting point. What if I can get relevant job listings posted to my news feed? With IngBoo this is now possible. We have launched partners that connect the Facebook user via a complete job search, for example Startupers. In other cases, users connect over pre-defined tags (a.k.a., keywords, channels). Rozee is such an example. While users may be reluctant to share their job listings, they are quickly adopting the idea of receiving them in their Facebook News Feed.
Other job sites link their RSS feeds to Facebook using IngBoo. SEO Jobs Finder is a great example of this.
Everyone benefits from expanded reach for job searches. The job seeker has a better chance of seeing a new opportunity in a timely fashion. The job sites see more revisits.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Fallout Continues?
Today, AOL announced that it is selling off Bebo, their social network service. AOL acquired Bebo for $850M 2 years ago. According to an article in Business Week, they now sold it for $10M. Ouch!
Does this surprise anyone? The current situation is unsustainable anyway. Consolidation simply must happen in the market. Social syndication is great but no one benefits from this:

The image above is from AddThis, a popular plug-in to allow readers to share content.
What may be the next move from Facebook? Maybe they will get into the content business (as in a publisher)?
Friday, June 11, 2010
The Fallout from Facebook Open Graph
Digg dropped from 38.6M unique visitors in March, to 24.7M by end of April. While 24.7M is an impressive visitor number, it is also a 36% drop in traffic... in just one month!
How do we know that this is Facebook's "fault"? We don't. We just applied some logical analysis in April, named a couple of companies that should be concerned and then looked at those companies again now. Maybe this is just a coincidence, we don't know.
Yahoo! Buzz on the other hand, made some strides in April, according to Compete.com. This speaks against our hypothesis.

Buzz climbed from 4M unique visitors, to 6M, which is a 20% increase in traffic. Maybe Buzz just has more overall momentum thanks to integration with Yahoo! sister properties? Thanks to that momentum, Buzz will either take longer to show a drop or, will just stagnate at its current level. Do note that Digg still has over 4x the traffic over Buzz. Maybe Yahoo! should pick them up?
WebGuild has some additional perspective on Digg, which you can read here.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Video Interview with IngBoo Co-Founder and CEO
If you have 40 minutes to spare, the interview is here:
Saturday, June 5, 2010
SebCAM TV - One Man on a Mission

Given his profession, the site provides a unique and fun insight into an industry that most of us know little or nothing about.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Crackberry.com Review of WebStart
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
WebStart for BlackBerry - New Version is Out
The application can be downloaded for free from BlackBerry App World.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
New Subscription Function
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Facebook - Nothing has Changed, the Internet Will Never Be the Same
- Single sign-on (Facebook Connect)
- Content sharing
- Fan pages
- Social plug-ins
The sharing feature (a.k.a. "Like" or "Recommend") has the same basic function as the old Share function but with greatly improved social features. For example, I can see that my friend also liked an article and how many others liked it. When you combine the Like button with some of the Facebook widgets, you get a compelling social web integration. Yahoo! Buzz and Digg, watch out!
We believe the most significant change is on the business side. When the upgraded feature set gains momentum, Facebook will cement its position as the de facto (and only) social platform on the web to which web publishers will attach themselves. Other social communities woke up to a new reality today. To survive, they have to redefine and narrow their cause.
Just like how Microsoft owned the operating system for the PC, Facebook now owns the social operating system for the web.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Marriage.com - I wish it were there when we planned our wedding
Marriage.com is a one-stop shop for planning the wedding. The site is developing a database of sources, resources, ideas and opinions to help make the wedding a pleasant and fun project, as opposed to a stressful, bad memory.While my personal experience with planning a wedding, was mostly fun and exciting, I probably could have avoided some of the mistakes and snags that I encountered along the way, had Marriage.com existed in 1999... Ok, it was a while ago but, we are still married!!
We recently partnered with Marriage.com to bring one-click updates to their audience. Check out their blog!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Deals of America going Sticky

Monday, March 1, 2010
TicketLuck - Event Tickets go Sticky

Monday, February 22, 2010
Technorati Now Using IngBoo Web Syndication
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Google to Search - IngBoo to Track
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Haiti Earthquake
Friday, January 8, 2010
IngBoo Web Start for BlackBerry Now on More Sites

Monday, January 4, 2010
IngBoo in the BlackBerry App Store
The application now runs on Blackberry 8900, 9000, 9630 and 9700 devices. We are adding support for other models as well. With the basic support, we are reaching close to 20% of the current Blackberry users, according to AdMob's most recent statistics.
We haven't really promoted the application yet. We are therefore surprised and happy to have clocked several thousands of downloads to date. Besides BlackBerry App World, we have also submitted the application for review and publication at CrackBerry.com.It is modelled for the mobile form factor, it is designed after the original BlackBerry killer app - email snacking and it has the fewest clicks-to-content of any content reader in the market!
If you have one of the supported devices, please download the app here and give us some feedback!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
IngBoo Featured on TechNow TV
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Connecting Your Blog to the Eco-System
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Share Updates via Twitter, Facebook, Email and More

This is a step in our direction of being "social network friendly". The traditional email sharing is still available but the ability to single-click share via Twitter and Facebook makes it so much easier to share and comment on updates. Enjoy!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Single-Click Subscribe via Twitter
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Share Your Favs is Open for Business
We want your feedback on this feature so try it out. There can even be a reward for it!!
Friday, November 20, 2009
Chennaionline Launched
To accomplish this, they are using two IngBoo features:1. Content bundles (a.k.a. preview micro-portal) and,
2. Sticky job search.
Chennaionline is a great example of the new online media companies that are emerging on the Internet. They use IngBoo to perfect their content subscription strategy. As you can see, their site is very well structured and free from all types of clutter. This helps the users find and engage with our relationship tools very quickly.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Share Your Favs - Upcoming Features







