Posts Tagged ‘premium content’

Posted on September 15, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

5 new ways to filter, find and read blog content. Blogs are back!

It seems like innovation has hit the technology community again especially in the RSS / blogging / content aggregation sector. Just a few months ago everyone was talking about or how micro-blogging sites such as Twitter would kill blogs. People were saying RSS was too slow and everyone would be using people aggregation to find information in the terms of if something was important, people through social networks such as Facebook & Twitter would tell find information that way instead of reading blogs.

While that may stay true for some, new ways of filtering, finding and reading content have emerged helping users find relevant content to their interest. Let’s take a look.

1. YourVersion – http://www.yourversion.com

YourVersion continuously discovers new and personally relevant web content based on your interests, and lets you easily bookmark and share your discoveries with friends.
YourVersion was recently named DemoPit peoples’ choice winner at TechCrunch50

2. Google Fast Flip – http://fastflip.googlelabs.com

Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.

3. LazyFeed – http://www.lazyfeed.com

Lazyfeed is a web service that allows you to subscribe to any topics and get live updates. Just save any topic you are interested in, and forget about it. Lazyfeed will remember and let you know when there’s new content on that topic, just like an instant messenger. Lazyfeed allows you to stay on top of everything you care about, effortlessly.

4. Feedly (Firefox plug-in) – http://www.feedly.com

feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page.

5. Alltop – http://Alltop.com

The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you.

While Feedly and Alltop have been online a lot longer than LazyFeed, Google Fast Flip and YourVersion, I thought they could be useful to the non-tech readers of SocialWayne.com.

Google Reader is still my preferred choice to read blogs but with features like auto discovery of new content LazyFeed and YourVersion are good tools for bloggers looking to find content or just to keep up with the latest news from the social web / blogosphere.

Out of the five tools which one do you use? What do you use to read blogs?

Posted on August 6, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Weekly Pitch: Social Cord offers premium content to your audience

The Pitch
Social Cord is a premium content billing platform that allows you to offer paid content subscriptions to your fans, followers, or users. Social Cord subscriptions are billed directly to the mobile phone bill, and the content is delivered by SMS which means it works across all carriers and phone types.

Social Cord is like cable for Social Networks and YOU GET PAID EVERY MONTH YOUR USERS ARE SUBSCRIBED. Learn more about how Social Cord works visit: http://socialcord.com/earn.php.

At beta, Social Cord is seeking the following types of users:
· Social network app developers
· Music Artists
· Celebrities
· Media Companies
· Religious Institutions
· Other Content Creators

If you have an audience that is highly engaged with your content, and you’d like to provide premium content that your audience pays for, then Social Cord is for you.

Monetize Twitter Today!
We also offer a Twitter plug-in called Tipcup that allows you to send unique content to your Twitter followers that subscribe to your premium content feed. Learn more about Tipcup here: http://www.socialcord.com/tipcup.php

Earn More By Signing Up Today!
We are offering our first 100 beta testers a 10% lifetime bonus on any revenue earned on the Social Cord platform.

We’re working hard to make Social Cord the best premium content billing platform, possible so all of your feedback is welcome. If you have questions or comments please don’t hesitate to email me or contact me in any way below.

David K Dundas – Founder of Social Cord
“Freemium your content with Social Cord!”
www.socialcord.com
www.twitter.com/socialcord

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Disclaimer:
I have not beta tested Social Cord yet but I will in the near future.

If you would like for me to review your product or site email: pitches at socialwayne dot com . Disclaimer: I have no investment or relationship with the creators of this site. Thank you.