Channeling President Obama: Your Weekly Address via YouTube and Searchles TV

Thus far President Obama (I was about to just write "Obama" but it just doesn't seem right anymore) hasn't let us down in living up to his title as the first Internet President. We were excited to see that his media team has completely re-hauled Whitehouse.gov to bring it up to social media speed and promote transparency in his administration.

We were ALSO excited to see this post from last Saturday on the White House blog (yes...The Obama Administration be bloggin') that the President will be administering a weekly address to the American public via youtube. You can see the White House youtube channel here (the ultimate in branded youtube channels) and we've also put it in a Searchles TV channel where we'll be updating it weekly to save all the addresses in one place where we can play them back-to-back! It'll almost serve as a little President Obama flip-book where we can watch him age slowly (Real Change!!!). See below starting with his first address on Jan. 24 2009! Create your own Searchles TV video mashup here.

Catch the Searchles Discovery Widget in Action - Ballin' Bloggers Who Were the First to Grab It!

We'd like to highlight and send a special thanks to early adopters of our Related Content widget - the first of many contextual widgets for bloggers and publishers to roll on out of the Searchles Discovery Open Widget Platform. Sign up here!

If you'd like to see the widget in action you should wander over and check out these bloggers who are hip not only to their areas of expertise, but also to the importance of social media and engaging widgets! Also check out articles on Denverpost.com where we deployed our related content and Searchles Discovery technology earlier this year...

Social Media at Work "We will try to be slightly ahead of the center ahead of the curve, to give you a sense of what’s around the corner. Much of our content will be about the media and marketing worlds initially but, as the wave change continues build, we’ll include reports on all aspects of the networked economy."

NeoCon Express...*Worldwide Sources * Constantly Updated * Hard News * Soft News * Articles * Links * Images * and comments from a Neo-Conservative Perspective. Blogging politics since 2005.

Don Singleton...Don Singleton sends us some political blogging too and related posts too!

So have a look and please continue to send us feedback! OH and of course, have a look to the left panel of our own Officially Official Blog right here to see it in action too! Happy Friday, folks.

We're Inaugurating the Searchles Discovery Open Widget Platform for Bloggers and Web Publishers

Grab Free, Plug-and-Play Widgets to Enhance Social Media On Your Site

New President, new web tools! The Searchles Discovery platform is the culmination of all the Searchles/Dumbfind technology that has been built up over the years. To kick off the platform we have released in beta a Related Content widget aimed at blogs and content websites looking to make their sites a bit more sticky.

The Related Content widget displays a site's contextually relevant content on article pages to engage readers with options for further exploration. It comes pre-packaged with ads and operates within any site or blog-hosting service (TypePad instructions just added to the widget configuration page!). Think boosting page views and generating incremental revenue with our 50/50 revenue-share split! You can sign up here, grab the code and have the widget up and running in minutes! ("Self-serve", "Grab 'n Go", "Plug-and-Play", "Set it and forget it", "some other phrase that truly captures the simplicity of this process"...)

The search technology behind this widget goes beyond basic tag-matching and text search - no need to even tag your posts. We do the work for you and determine relevancy by spidering your site's content - analyzing relationships between extracted concepts in order to retrieve the most comprehensive set of relevant posts in your site's archive.
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So you get Related Content - but what wonderfulness can you expect out of the open platform over the coming weeks? The open widget platform will be expanding to offer a larger set of social features that leverage the content and on-site activities of and conversations between your users to identify and surface relationships (what has been referred to as the "contextual web") between pieces of content and relationships between like-minded users or groups of users.

A few examples:
* Related Users to a Blog Post
* Related Categories (people, places, topics) to a Forum Post
* Related Forum Posts to an Article
* Related Communities to Blog Post
* Popular Articles
* Related Comments
* Related Anything to Anything (challenge us...)

Depending on what types of content your site or community produces, we can identify and surface via widget the relationships that will make your site stickier, more interactive, and have less dead-ends as your readers explore different topics and engage related readers.

Start off by giving our Related Content widget a go! Of course we'd appreciate any feedback or issues you have regarding the relevance, installation and aesthetics of the widget. Please don't hesitate to contact us!

Denverpost.com Taps Searchles Discovery Widgets to Increase User Interactivity

We've launched Searchles Discovery Related Users and Related Tags widgets on article pages of denverpost.com! Taking the Neighbors social networking section of the media site to new heights, the Related Users widget surfaces relevant denverpost.com users that have been interacting with similar content to a particular article. Clicks on a Related User leads directly to their denverpost.com profile page. This social widget, seen here on an article pages, serves to connect and engage like-minded readers within the denverpost.com community - leading to increased site-interactivity and personalized content recommendations through these peer-networks.


The Related Tags widget, also on the right panel of article pages, is assembled from extracted relevant concepts from a corresponding article. The tags link through to a denverpost.com site search - allowing readers to jump straight through to articles relevant to their specific interests.

These widgets is part of Searchles Discovery® technology that is geared towards online publishers, bloggers, and social network sites and priced based on a revenue-share working scenario. Searchles Discovery tools offer a set of customizable solutions for increasing user interaction, realizing full value of site content by using it as a foundation to build and utilize networks of trusted peers, as well as enhancing social search features and capabilities for targeted advertising. If you want further info on how our Searchles Discovery technology can socialize your site and community of users contact us here! Or if you're into videos have a look at our Searchles Discovery video below: