Identi.ca

Twitter is growing faster than weed and you probably know that by looking at every graph on uberVU. But there are other services out there and we are doing the best we can to support them all. identi.ca is one of them. We like identi.ca because it’s more open than Twitter and it’s based on open-source software –  StatusNet (formerly Laconica).

Propeller

Netscape may not be one of the hottest destinations on the web right now, but while Calacanis was in charge, he created a cool destination Digg-like website. Now known as Propeller, the website is still a cool destination with a nice following, and it is our pleasure to add it as a data-source for ContextVoice.

Please refer to the updated documentation. The new generators are identica and propeller.

As the new platforms are rolling you will see  new sources in uberVU too.

Today we also introduce Yahoo Buzz as a new supported platform. It was available for some days but we announce it officially today. And we now get updates from FriendFeed in real-time…. as the rest of the platforms.

We look forward for your input.

It was a very unusual networking event because we had a 3-minute pitch for the geeks to get an idea on what we are doing and then talk to each of them for 9 minutes. If you are thinking of speed dating you are right. That was exactly how it was. In our pitch we decided to talk on why building the social graph is important. Main takeaways:

• We are talking about conversations for more than 10 years now but all that we have is millions of unrelated messages, with no context that you can not do anything interesting with them.
• Context Voice brings order to all the chaos by creating a search-able index of platform agnostic conversations that you can track in real time.
• This is very important because we help people find and interact with their tribe.
• You can do all sort of amazing stuff on top of all the data we are giving you.

Robert also did a nice live interview with us that we embedded bellow:

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Last week was totally hectic. We launched a new website, a new product and a new version of the API.  So we would like to thank all the people who helped us to get things out the door:

Brohouse for the amazing logo

We needed a new logo for Context Voice and we needed it fast. So Brohouse was there to help us create a logo in almost no-time. You can read the whole story on their blog. Thanks again guys!

Steve Ho for helping us solve some crazy database issues

A month ago we ran into some very weird problems with our databases. Steve was calm enough to help us methodically test all the possible causes and help us identify the problem(s) and solve them. Thank you Steve! We owe you one!

All the great people who wrote about our launch

I am thinking of:

• FocusIT for letting our fellow Romanian hackers know about the change
• OpenCoffee Bucharest for hosting the first ContextVoice presentation
• Stefano Bernardi for breaking the news before everyone else on thestartup.eu
• Dana Oshiro for her great article and interview in ReadWriteWeb
• Mircea Goia for the great article in TheNextWeb
• Seedcamp for mentioning our launch on their blog and breaking the news to all the European startups.

Thank you ALL!

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Our presentation is below:

The main ideas/takeaways from our talk:

• We add another layer to the social stack. After the conversational graph (Facebook) or message graph (Twitter) we want to offer a conversational graph.
• It’s a service that you can use through an easy to use API
• Main features of the API are search, filtering, SUP support and close to real time URL tracking
• You should use our API because you save time and money
• You can do tons of stuff on top of it: from blogging tools to financial applications or meme websites.

Few pictures from the event:

1. We get reactions for trackbacks
When someone blogs about a story you are tracking not only we will update the conversation to include that story in the timeline but now you will find a new link “Show reactions” that will show all the reactions (comments, FriendFeedc comments, twitts etc) to that trackback. We feel that if someone is talking about your blog post for example, you will also be interested in what people are talking about that.

2. You can reply to FriendFeed and DISQUS comments
Whenever you get reactions on FriendFeed and DISQUS you can reply and we will make sure we’ll send all that back to the appropriate platform. It works like a charm.

3. Fixed some bugs with Wordpress replies
There were some issues with Wordpress replies (they were caught as spam). Fixed that.

4. Few interface improvements
We have new icons for the platforms and when you track a picture or a movie, the media will be dispalyed on the conversation timeline.

5. New select options
You can now select or deselect all conversations, all read or unread conversations etc…

uberVU meets Twitter from Vladimir Oane on Vimeo.

The highlight of the day, however, was hanging out with the Twitter team at their offices in San Francisco. We talked for about one and a half hours and the meeting was the most fun we’ve had in the Valley so far.

Thanks guys for having us.

UPDATE: the Video did not export properly, re exporting and will upload in a few hours. Sorry about this.

We’ll post the David Shen movie later on. We tried to film the meetings at Google, but they made us sign some NDAs while visiting. Sorry guys.

Web 2.0 takes place in San Francisco at the Palace Hotel. Of course we didn’t buy tickets (we are a startup and we are not crazy enough to spend a fortune on tickets) but we had a lot of meetings set up in the hotel lobby. We met Eric Marcoullier from gnip first. We discussed a lot about architecture and consuming atomic information, the future of RSS etc… We also had a very pleasant lunch at a sushi restaurant with Ted Shelton from The Conversation Group. Ted is an expert on social media and he had a lot of interesting suggestions for us.

On the way to the hotel we got a camera and we will now share some videos. Here is the first one. Kinda silly and stupid but we needed to start somewhere.

See you tomorrow!

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We want to thank everybody that supported us and stood by us. Thank you for your kind comments on this blog, thank you for Twittering about us, for bookmarking our app or for talking to your friends about it. You’ve all helped us through these months more than you know it.

This is a great time for us as we’ll be launching our product in the next month. I know a lot of people have been waiting for this for quite a while and we’re trying to work as fast as possible so that we have something to show you.

Mind that it’s only an early beta version, but still, we hope you like it and enjoy using it.