January 2012
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Hello Publishers, Meet Dash.
By: Sachin Kamdar
Over two years ago, Parse.ly graduated from the then Philadelphia-based (now in NYC and Israel) accelerator, DreamIt Ventures. At DreamIt we planted the seed of an idea that grew into the Parse.ly Reader, an intelligent news reading application that got better as you used it. Parse.ly Reader was successful – it grew in size to several thousands of users in a matter of weeks...
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“And while the advances in media consumption technology for readers have been...”
– http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/01/why-publishers-are-about-to-go-data-crazy017.html
By Sachin Kamdar
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Parse.ly's "Pageview Generator" Featured in...
You may have seen that Parse.ly was featured in a TechCrunch article a couple of days ago. It was a great writeup by Sarah Perez, and we wanted to share it with you here.
Parse.ly Will Launch Its Pageview-Generating Machine Called “Dash” This Month:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/parse-ly-will-launch-its-pageview-generating-machine-called-dash-this-month/ The article actually...
December 2011
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Get ready for the iPhone 5 hype...
According to BGR, the iPhone 5 is scheduled to launch in Fall 2012. So what does this mean for the publishing industry? It means there are going to be a lot of iPhone 5 articles coming out over the next 9 months, assuming that’s when the product will actually launch. This is great news for publishers. Apple fans are an extremely loyal bunch and always looking for the next scoop…plenty...
Obligatory Tim Tebow Post
Since Parse.ly is in the business of providing analytics for content publishers, nobody knows better than us that Tim Tebow is by far the hottest trending topic of late. We’ve seen the Tebowing craze, he’s been on ESPN non-stop, and now most recently we learn about “Tebrew,” a beer dedicated to the Denver Broncos QB that has captivated the nation and turned even non-sports...
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Insights for the web's best publishers
Parse.ly Dash - Insights for the web’s best publishers… Sounds great right? But who are some of these publishers and what type of insights can you expect from Parse.ly? Well, you’ll have to wait just a bit longer for a full answer, but here’s what we can tell you now…. Our semantic analytics have been breath of fresh air to editorial, audience development, analytics,...
May 2011
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January 2011
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Parse.ly Closes $800K Financing Round →
Parse.ly (http://parsely.com), the intelligent personalization and optimization engine for content providers, raised $800,000 from Blumberg Capital, ff Asset Management, Scott Becker (formely co-founder and CTO of Invite Media), Don Hutchison (formerly principal at Netcom, Work.com), Jeffrey Greenblatt (senior principal at Ankyra Capital) and Jon Axelrod (formerly founder/CEO at MusicGremlin).
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October 2010
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The Startup Diet, how our founders lost 10-15 lbs... →
From the article:
One of the most successful runway-extending pieces of advice we have given has been to keep food costs low. We were able to get our food cost down to $4/person/day through some simple planning during that summer, and each of us also lost 10-15 pounds in the process. We felt great, were productive, and made our DreamIt investment last. I think this might be one of the core...
September 2010
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Parse.ly's CTO profiled in NY Observer today
In an excellent article discussing some software engineers’ transitions from working on Wall Street to working on startups, our very own Parse.ly CTO, Andrew Montalenti, is profiled.
You can imagine the surprise when we discovered the article as the top choice in our Parse.ly team account today (see above!). How very meta.
A relevant quote:
[…] soon the work grew redundant, Mr....
July 2010
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Parse.ly presenting at Hoboken Tech Meetup tonight
Should be a good time. See http://www.meetup.com/Hoboken-Tech-Meetup/ to join the meetup!
April 2010
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NY Tech Meetup, API Launch & Consumer Beta
Tomorrow Parse.ly will be presenting at the NY Tech Meetup. We’re part of the “university demo” segment, though we’re not actually university students anymore (if only!). This is a particularly good time to for us to talk to the New York Tech community. We have a few upcoming product offerings for developers, publishers, and individuals that we’re super excited...
February 2010
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Algorithms as a Service and P3
Mike Singleton of FourSquare recently wrote a blog post entitled, “Algorithms as a Service”:
I think there’s a market opportunity to crease an AAS (algorithms as a service) company which provides simple APIs to implementations of common algorithms… Algorithms as a service would give you development efficiency, problem scalability (access to CPU farms), and confidence in the...
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Flavors.me emerges from beta: lifestreaming for...
Our good friends at HiiDef just launched a new app that has been in beta for awhile, Flavors.me. This is an excellent tool that has a great, simple, and usable design. What’s the value preposition of Flavors.me? It’s to unify your various “online identities” into a single, dynamic, automatically-updated, and elegant website. From the article:
Flavors.me lets you take all that information and...
November 2009
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Recent Parse.ly Press!
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but we’ve been busy changing and improving Parse.ly for the better! We did, though, get picked up by a couple popular blogs in the past few weeks. Here a few snippets from both ReadWriteWeb and ZDNet. Bloggers, muckrakers and news fanatics, lend me your ears. It’s entirely possible that we’ve discovered one of the best approaches to media...
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Parse.ly presentation at NYC Search & Discovery...
Hi Parse.ly fans. Andrew here. I just wanted to let you know that I presented Parse.ly at the NYC Search & Discovery Meetup on Thurs, Oct. 29. The meetup is organized by Otis Gospodnetic (blog), who is one of the authors of Lucene in Action and the author of the forthcoming Solr in Action book. It was graciously hosted at kgbweb (thanks for making that happen, Joe West!). We make heavy use...
October 2009
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Parse.ly back online
Hi Parse.ly users, Around 12:16am this morning, Parse.ly’s main database server that powers the Parse.ly news reading interface went down. Unfortunately, our system administrator is on vacation in Greece at the moment — or, should we say, fortunately for him! :-) I’ve successfully rolled our backups to the failover Parse.ly database server, however since our last complete backup...
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Sorry! Parse.ly is down for some...
Sorry Parse.ly users, but one of our servers unexpectedly failed on us. As a result, we took Parse.ly down. We’re working hard now roll our backups over to our failsafe and get Parse.ly back up and running. We should back to normal in a few hours. We’ll update this post when we’re all good to go.
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New York City DemoDay
Andrew’s a lifetime New Yorker. He grew up in the city and Long Island (and now lives in Astoria, Queens), and has always been a fan of the New York. I’ve been in NYC for the past eight years bouncing between Mnhattan and Brooklyn (I just moved to Ft. Greene this past weekend), and have grown to love the city Well, this past week we had the opportunity — the privilege —...
September 2009
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Parse.ly releases new version on Sunday, Sept. 20
If you were trying to log into Parse.ly between 11pm-1am this Sunday, you may have noticed that it was intermittently down for maintenance. Over the last several weeks, we’ve been working hard to roll out some new features, polish some rough edges, and improve our infrastructure after our launch last month. Our first beta users have been amazing in providing us with detailed and specific...
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Parse.ly weekend work
We’re rolling out a new version of Parse.ly this weekend, so the service may be up and down intermittently while that happens. We’ll update our blog once the new version is rolled out to let everyone know what has changed. Stay tuned! Update (9/16/2009): after some additional testing, we’ve decided to delay the production rollout of the new version of Parse.ly until later this...
August 2009
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Parse.ly Featured on Thrillist!
Check out our feature on Thrillist! Here’s a little snippet: Nothing beats having someone else do all the legwork, like your sister inviting her sorority friends home for the holidays, or accepting Michael Flatley’s lifetime achievement award for him, and keeping it. Get all the online content you’re seeking sans effort, with Parse.ly. Don’t forget to check out Thrillist...
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Parse.ly on NPR!
Check out our quick mention in Marketplace on NPR! The transcript is there, but if you want to listen to the actual program (and hear some Parse.ly voices), you can jump to the 16:40 mark.
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Parse.ly Launches Private Beta!
[caption id=”attachment_151” align=”alignleft” width=”300” caption=”Photo from: http://bit.ly/parselyegg”][/caption] We’re proud to announce that we’re entering the Private Beta stage of Parse.ly! We’re happy with the interest our little garnish has gathered and are excited to hear some feedback. Accounts are being rolled out...
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Reflections on DreamIt Ventures 2009
Wow, it is hard to believe that this summer is almost over. It seems like Cog Tree just moved to Philadelphia for the summer last week! But a lot has happened and we’re really proud of what we created. Let me try and breakdown the summer to give you an idea of how quickly we moved: May 23rd - Moved to Philadelphia to participate in DreamIt Ventures’ second program for the summer....
July 2009
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To Limit or Not?
In their recent posts, Shabadu and UB have a discussion about whether limiting who can post content on the internet is a good or bad idea. Here’s my response. Shabadu: You can’t limit the internet! Limiting the internet is like putting a leash on Lassie when she is out there trying to save Timmy. The internet, for all its ridiculous memes, articles, pictures, and videos, has created...
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The Harsh Reality of Too Much Information
[caption id=”attachment_55” align=”alignleft” width=”309” caption=”Drawing By: Eric Drooker”][/caption] The fact that we’re inundated with information consistently needs no explanation, and is not something that has recently evolved. Information has been thrown at me my entire life, through print, radio, TV and now the Internet. However,...
June 2009
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We've planted our roots, and now we're growing...
Sorry for excessive metaphors related to trees, but it just seemed so fitting. You see, for almost a year, Sachin (the other founder of Cog Tree) and I have spent every moment of our free time to the path of starting this company. We felt quite nomadic during that time — we would leave our full-time jobs at the end of the day and meet at wi-fi cafes scattered across New York City. We were...
May 2009
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The Too Much Information Age
Welcome to the Cog Tree blog! We’re excited to tell everyone about Cog Tree and the awesome projects we’re working on this summer. Cog Tree evolved from a few different roots to tackle a problem that is affecting quite a few people and industries today. And while we’re still just a young sapling, we’re working on growing into a robust Tree! Whoever coined the...