SXSW-bound? We’re psyched that so many of you have enjoyed connecting on our Cliqset-powered Mashable Austin Realtime site — but we’ve cooked up something else. It’s called the Crowd, and it will keep you in touch with all the activity around Austin throughout the conference.
The Crowd serves you up a digestible summary of where and when SXSW attendees are hanging out and checking-in with a variety of social and geo services (Brightkite, Cliqset, Flickr, Foursquare, Gowalla, Qik, Twitter). With bar graphs lining the top of the Web application, the Crowd breaks down geo-activity by day and even by hour to display spikes in geo-check-ins. Or, you can choose to focus on where activity occurs, reflected in a giant Google map of Austin. Of course, you can toggle on and off these social services you’d like to view. By clicking on the orange dots across the Google map, indicating posted activities, you can check out not only the user who posted, but also the full status update, photo, or tweet.
So don’t wander around SXSW alone — sign up to the Crowd with Twitter or Cliqset and find out where the action is Or check out the late night tweets and check-ins that happened the night before. Just something fun for SXSW.
Hey Cliqset,
We’re powering Mashable’s Austin Realtime online community, a place to connect with other folks heading to SXSW. Sponsored by Sony Electronics, Austin Realtime lets you check out other conference-goers based on interests (pizza, iPhones, social media, etc.) or based on location as we’ve enabled location-aware services. And to keep things interesting, attendees can vote on folks they most admire or whose content they enjoy reading to influence Austin’s Top 10 Most Favorited Attendees rankings. Dependent on votes, the winner will receive a Mashable prize.
To get set up and connected before you head to SXSW, all you need to do is go to Austin Realtime and integrate with your Cliqset account. Then you’ll be ready to go, viewing and sharing activities from the Austin Realtime network.
And Cliqset is heading to SXSW, so find us on Austin Realtime: Darren, Charlie, Jeff and David. And no pressure to “favorite” the Cliqset team…
Oh, and don’t forget to RSVP for Mashable’s MashBash 2010 which we’re sponsoring along with Sony. We’re expecting around 1600 guests, and it takes place on Sunday, March 14 at 10:00 p.m. at Buffalo Billiards in Austin, Texas. The event is open to all SXSWi badge holders. To RSVP, visit: http://sxswi.eventbrite.com/
It’s been a busy month. Last week, we went live with our Evernote integration, and we rolled out a number of new features:
Google Buzz
You love it, you hate it – it has certainly created buzz. As you begin to experiment with Buzz, Cliqset allows you to stream in your Buzz updates in real-time so that they don’t clutter your GMail interface.
FourSquare
FourSquare has been added to our list of services – now all your friends on Cliqset will know what bar you’re at, where you’re eating lunch, or what location you’ve added to your mayor portfolio. If you have yet try out FourSquare, we think you should give it a shot since they just rolled out their location-based platform to everyone. Check us out on FourSquare while your setting up the integration.
Tweet Viewing
We’re now displaying the actual tweeted media in your streams – whenever someone tweets a picture or video, the media will show up in the stream as shown below. If it’s a photo, you’ll see it in your feed, if it’s a video you’ll be able to easily watch it right in your stream.
FriendFeed Contact Importing
New users of Cliqset now have the ability to import contacts from FriendFeed so they’ll start with a base group of friends, and already have interesting and familiar content streaming through their activity feed. Simply select the FriendFeed box when you’re signing up, and we’ll do the rest!
Cliqset wants to make sure you’re getting the most out of your time spent on the Web, and we hope this most recent batch of updates can help you do that. Keep checking in to see what else we have in store and please keep the feedback coming in. We’ll see you in Austin!
Cliqset integrated with Evernote! Now you can permanently archive selected social content, like photos, status updates, reviews, blog posts, videos, files, or articles, to your Evernote account and file it in personalized Evernote notebooks, accessible on the Evernote Web site or mobile application. Pull from a variety of online environments, including the Cliqset AIR app, Firefox extension and bookmarklet.
Perhaps you’re building an Evernote Recipe Notebook? Now you can add in food snapshots and culinary suggestions from your various social networks that you find on Cliqset.
Or let’s say you’re planning a trip to New York City. Whenever you notice a review of a Broadway play or a status update raving about a local restaurant, grab it, share it from Cliqset and save it †on Evernote in your “Vacation Planner” notebook.
Cliqset wants to help people filter through the social activity of pretty much everything that’s online, and be able to consume it the way they want to, and, with our Evernote integration, we’re creating a way to capture that information and save it for later. Once in Evernote, your Cliqset content can be tagged, indexed, and searched to easily locate later. Try it out, and let us know what you think.
And the countdown begins. Less than 2 months away from SXSWi, and we’re already itching to head to Austin. For those of you gearing up for this massive event, Cliqset will power Mashable’s Social Directory, a robust list of attendees and highlighted SXSWi superstars, helping you connect with other guests and get the 411 on the hottest parties and panels.
What’s more – on Sunday, March 14 from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m., Mashable and Cliqset will celebrate SXSWi at the official 2nd Annual MashBash, a festive celebration at Buffalo Billiards with 1,600 other guests – including Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, Adam Ostrow, and Barb Dybwad. Along with Sony, Cliqset will be an official sponsor for the evening. We look forward to seeing many of you there – please, come say hi!
To kick off the celebration, Mashable is raffling 2 full SXSWi conference badges and access to the MashBash VIP List (skip the line)! Try your luck here.
Make sure to RSVP at Mashable’s Eventbrite page. Also, winners at random will be selected from the Eventbrite RSVP list to get special VIP access to MashBash SXSWi.
Winter getting you down? Temperatures are dropping, but Cliqset continues to heat up. At Cliqset, we’re committed to creating an environment that continues to evolve and builds on our vision to revolutionize the way people share, discover, and discuss content online. Today, we introduced a few new features to our Web site and Desktop App – a combination of user requests and ideas we’ve cooked up on our own.
We’re pretty excited about the new enhancements and we’ve concentrated on (unprecedented) file sharing across Cliqset, powerful new tools (streams) to filter out the noise and zero in on the content or people that are most interesting to you, and greater collaboration through group creation.
Here’s a run-down of what’s now available on Cliqset:
File Sharing: People will be able to upload and share files with other Cliqset users as part of the real-time activity stream – Share dozens of file types, including MP3s, PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, and more.
Custom Streams: Users can now organize content from the people they’re following into real-time ’streams’ of information. Streams make it easier to filter through the noise and provide you with the tools to easily get to the information you care about from the people you’re following.
New Groups Functionality: Groups enable users to come together around commonalities (hobbies, clubs, companies, file sharing) and consume, create, and collaborate in public or private topical, real-time conversations.
New Firefox Extension: This alternative Cliqset view, embedded on the browser interface, enables users to stay connected to their friends’ bookmarked links and quickly share compelling content they discover while surfing the Web. The extension is available for download at http://cliqset.com/firefox.
Enhanced Adobe AIR Desktop Application: With a new design, the Cliqset desktop client makes it easier to organize information shared by your friends, family, and the other people you follow on Cliqset. The desktop application is available for download at http://www.cliqset.com/desktop.
Integration with 10 new services, including some of the most popular social services in Europe and Asia.
In coming weeks, Cliqset’s Social Blog will take a deeper dive into each of these gems. So, enjoy these belated holiday gifts, and stay tuned for more conversation. And please, continue sharing your ideas and opinions with us, and help shape our community.
At the recent Internet Summit in Raleigh, NC, CEO of Technorati Richard Jalichandra discussed the importance of blogs. He commented that “the blogosphere is thriving and that blogs are an important part of the internet ecosystem.” We can’t agree more.
There is no denying that blogging has deeply changed the way we communicate with each other. From personal journals to business communications and journalism, and from celebrities to technology evangelists to hobbyists, we’ve seen blogging really transform the way we share and discuss information. Our collective writing styles across all types of content now reflect a more personal, informal (and blogger-like) approach, with an open door for people to join us in conversation around what we’ve written.
In Jalichandra’s presentation, he concluded that “Conversation is Content and Content is Conversation.” At Cliqset, we wholeheartedly embrace this view. Blogs are important and we’ve designed our community so that it’s easy for you to not only to share your blog, but also to create a discussion around it. The subsequent conversation therefore becomes a seamless extension of the blog post.
Not a blogger? Or, haven’t found a blog that really piques your interest? On Cliqset, you can discover compelling blogs, wherever your passions lie – and then share them with the rest of the community.
We’ve put together our favorite tips to discover and share blogs on Cliqset:
Discover a new blog: By clicking on the home page blog icon, Cliqset will filter your activity stream to render a blog-only view. From there, you can easily browse until you find interesting content.
Follow blogs: Integrating a blog platform with Cliqset allows you to share posts across selected social networks. To set this up, go to the Services page in Cliqset and activate whichever blogging platform you (or selected blogger) use, including WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger, LiveJournal, and Xanga. Enter the blog URL or add the RSS/Atom feeds of the blog, and check the “Share my blog posts on Cliqset” box. Then watch as your blog content rolls through your home page activity stream, as we automatically start pulling your feed.
Share a post: To share an interesting post, click on the share button and choose the other communities with which you would like to share the content. Click the Share button, and the post will be delivered in real-time.
Discuss: After you’ve wired up your blog to Cliqset, you can engage readers in a real-time, dynamic conversation about your ideas and opinions. On Cliqset, your blog post will have its own unique URL where readers can “Like” or “Comment” on your post to interact with you, the author. And of course, the process is the same for starting a discussion around a blog you’ve discovered.
We look forward to reading your content or whatever interests you, and engaging you in discussion. And don’t be afraid to connect with us about our blog or the ones we share!
Monday was a pretty big day for us. We rolled out our latest round of new featuresand we powered Boxee’s real-time discussion for their Beta Unveiling event in Brooklyn. For those that joined us in conversation, we hope you enjoyed the Cliqset/Boxee experience as much as we did. Connecting with such an enthusiastic community only served to inspire us further as we continue to innovate and develop our Cliqset application for Boxee. We feel that the Boxee Beta platform is going to open the door to a lot of great possibilities and will bring developers a whole new suite of tools to build deeper, more immersive social entertainment apps.
With that in mind, we’re still innovating on Boxee and just released our new UI for Cliqset on Boxee. As an avid Cliqset Social Blog reader, you don’t even have to wait for an invite to the Beta – you can see it right here!
Essentially, we’ve streamlined how you can view your activity feed and how you can discuss with friends while watching content on Boxee. You can either choose to view your activity feed like the above image, which includes access to your notifications, activity stream and video comments or click on Video Chat and view the video in full screen with comments translucently layered on the bottom.
So sign into Boxee and start a discussion around your favorite content. Whatever it is you’re watching, Cliqset will be there to power the discussion.
At Cliqset, we are committed to making this community irresistible, and today we’re unveiling some new functionality – that may even sound familiar. Why? Because we listened to our users and integrated some of the features that you asked to see. It’s important to us that we create a community that supports the way you engage with others, so please keep your suggestions and comments coming.
Let’s launch right into the features and what they mean to you:
Twitter Contacts: You can now search your Twitter contacts to see if they are Cliqset users. Just click on the link, find the people you know, and start connecting.
Twitter Updates: Now your updates shared from Twitter to Cliqset will appear in our community in real-time
Popular Users: A new popular users suggestion feature at sign-up allows you to locate interesting members with diverse and rich content
Posterous Integrated: By popular demand, we added Posterous to our Services, allowing you to share your Posterous updates with the Cliqset community
FriendFeed Integrated: Now you can not only share Cliqset updates to FriendFeed, but also share your FriendFeed updates with your Cliqset network
Location-Aware: Cliqset now appends your map location when tweets include a location, so your friends can engage with you both virtually or physically
PubSubHubBub (PuSH) Enabled: Developers will appreciate that we enabled PuSH support for inbound feeds. Developers now have access to Activity Streams-formatted feeds in real-time. We also now support PuSH as a subscriber so any service or feed we support that publishes a PuSH will be subscribed to and used. This means when new content is available on those services (e.g.Google Reader, Blogger, Posterous, etc) it will be delivered to Cliqset in real-time.
The day has finally arrived! Tonight, Cliqset is excited to partner with Boxee and power the real-time conversation for the livestream of Boxee’s Beta Unveiling event. The event is now officially sold-out, however, no need to fret, you can still be a part of the excitement and the conversation. Virtual attendees can connect with each other as they view the action on Boxee and participate in the conversation via the Cliqset application.
Since the application’s debut in early October, Cliqset has been working closely with Boxee to support not only socialized entertainment, but also socialized viewing for a live event. Tonight, Boxee users can either sign in anonymously or create a Cliqset account to chat with attendees and the Boxee community, view the event, and participate in dynamic conversation, all happening in real-time.
So, whether you’re planning on physically or virtually attending the event, Cliqset for Boxee is a great place for you to engage in the new Boxee platform. To access the Boxee live event, go to the Boxee home page tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET and click on the Boxee Beta Unveiling in the Recommendations section.
Or check out the late night tweets and check-ins that happened the night before. Just something fun for SXSW.
