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February 20, 2010foldier sPress: Where we are and where we are going
January 15, 2010
We released a new version of our online application called foldier sPress 2.29 just few days ago. I believe the time has arrived to explain more about our vision and what this new release represents in the path we are following.
Let’s start with what you can do with foldier sPress today. The new big feature of this release is the sPress Site and the Page Editor used to design its content. With this feature you can easily build a News site dedicated to any topic of your choice.
Because foldier constantly refresh the content from your connected Media Sources you always have fresh content classified and ready for you to review.
You act as the “Editor in chief” of your News Site. You decide what and when to publish. You can comment and explain why you publish some articles and not others. You can write your own content and publish it side by side with any other article coming from major journalist or blogger.
This is News Publishing for the masses.
This is what we have today.
But our journey is far from over. In fact this is just the beginning.
Soon we will offer “premium” features that will allow our site owners to personalize their publications and make them as independent web site as any news site out there on the Internet.
Site owners will be able to add their own advertising and collect revenue from it. Will be able to host their site under their domain name. And will be able to directly customize any detail of the look and feel of their site with more templates and all the way to the CSS style sheets.
foldier sPress will be a one stop solution for creating rich media sites that are easy to build, and more importantly, easy to maintain with fresh and up-to date content.
foldier sPress provides also other ways of broadcasting: available today we have RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook, tomorrow we will extend our capabilities to other social networks (linkedin, myspace etc). We will allow you to reach your audience where ever they are.
And this is all in our short term future.
In the longer term we see foldier in the middle of the News [R]evolution. We see a future where a multitude of content producers like journalists, bloggers, photographers and videographers make their material available to a vast community of news publishers. We are not talking about the traditional publishers of today (playing on traditional paper or the Internet), we are talking about people like me and you. People with a passion and people with small and large communities of followers.
In this new ecosystem News content to the large audience is totally free. The authors of the content receive their awards by having a larger number of publishers from which they can collect revenues via subscription or advertising. Premium content is available free to consume from a multitude of small publishers that will reward the content owners with advertising revenue or/and subscription fees.
Michele Ursino
“foldier spress: where we are and where we are going”
by Michele Ursino
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foldier sPress 2.29 – Video Preview
December 1, 2009Here is a preview of the upcoming new Beta
We expect to release these capabilities on December 13 this month.
The foldier Team
foldier sPress at Supernova
November 30, 2009We have been selected as a spotlight startup for Supernova Opening Gala and Technology Showcase on Dec 1st 2009.
December 1st 2009 – 6:30 pm PST
MISSION BAY CONFERENCE CENTER
The foldier team.
How foldier sPress really works (part1)
August 21, 2009The first part (out of three posts) on “How foldier sPress really works” is online on foldier sPress sPression:
How foldier sPress really works
Enjoy!
The foldier Team
New foldier beta 2.28
August 11, 2009
Welcome back again to another release of foldier.
As usual we like to give you here a quick overview of what is new in this latest release. The following is just is a quick overview, we will follow up later with more detailed posts on every single new feature.
API
We introduce in this release our first API to access foldier from other web application. We have implemented a simple REST API with full OAuth protocol authorization pipeline. We also created a Wiki Site dedicated to the documentation of the API (http://wiki.foldier.net).
Improved Search Engine
A very important component of the foldier infrastructure is its search engine. Everything in foldier is organized using searches. We improved our engine to search inside the aggregated item descriptions. This results in better categorization for items matching keywords specified in your sPressions.
New Home Page
We moved the community all the way to the front. The new home page now has featured sthe most popular and most recent Pressions. From the home page visitors can now search for topic or for users. Check it out here!
Better foldier link bar
Links broadcasted to the followers now feature a much improved toolbar. The toolbar allows the visitor to access simple foldier features like rating and comments as well as linking the web page to other content posted by the same foldier user.
Better performance
We added to this release more aggressive code optimization and better caching for content. In our tests some browsing operation have seen speed improvements up to 50%.
Full integration with Google Docs
Now, once you connect your Google Docs account you can create new document and edit existing one directly from within foldier. Also publishing of Google Docs have been simplified. Now you can write your own original content using the powerful features of Google online editors and post this content in your own sPression with simple Drag & Drop.
This post was original written in Google Docs and published here.
The foldier team.
foldier in maintenance
August 9, 2009
Sunday August 9th 2009
We are currently upgrading foldier to the new version 2.28. This upgrade should take us a couple hours.
We are expecting to be back online by 12 pm PST.
12:44 pm – The update is still in progress. Everything is going well – it just takes a little longer than expected
1:30 pm – The update is ready. foldier is back online.
Thank you for your patience.
The foldier team.
New release scheduled to go online Sunday Aug. 9th
August 6, 2009We will deploy a new improved version of foldier this coming Sunday (August 9th).
The site will be down for maintenance starting at 9:00 a.m. PST until around 11:00 a.m. PST.
We will post updates here when the upgrade is complete.
The foldier team.
Mind the Bridge’s sPression: Using foldier’s technology to promote ideals
July 7, 2009
Mind the Bridge is an organization devoted to bridging the entrepreneurial spirit (and investments) of Silicon Valley to the untapped start-ups of Italy. Mind the Bridge has created a sPression that captures the news of innovation and entrepreneurship and utilizes the widget feature to display interesting news and content within the organization own blog: mindthebridge.blogspot.com.
At Mind the Bridge they use foldier to find interesting news about innovation, start-ups and entrepenurship. For example we get this YouTube video provided by 10 Downing St. “Celebrating Innovation“, or this interesting article “How Stanford’s Knight Fellowships are revamping for innovation” about how university-based fellowship programs can trigger innovation across the world. A must read!
The foldier widget in Mind the Bridge’s blog contextualizes the greater goals, interests, and ideals of this organization with the current news surrounding the main topic of their blog.
We at foldier share the goal and vision of innovation and entrepreneurship embodied by “Mind The Bridge”, in fact because some of us come from Italy we passionately support the mission of promoting and developing Italian best business ideas around the world.
We highly recommend reading Mind the Bridge’s sPression and blog.
The foldier team.
About foldier
June 26, 2009Not a Twitter clone, or Facebook or a social network…
but we still want to be your friend
Recently, Read.Write.Web. (a fantastic read) published a review of a media-sharing site and stated it was not just another twitter clone. We, the little guys do not have space on important outlets to explain the details of our service. So let us be the first to tell the world, we are not another twitter clone.
We are an add-on, a cog within the greater network of services. Twitter, Facebook, Google or foldier alone is not enough. It is all about interoperability. While other companies attempt to take over the world, foldier wants to optimize the enjoyability of its users and their use of the many mechanisms of the web.
Here are a few of those features unique to foldier that will enhance your web experience.
An Aggregator
foldier is first and foremost an aggregator of information. Opposed to Google, Yahoo, or Bing!, foldier finds data not for the immediate interest but for the long term. Reading a single or newest article of a subject of interest does not quell and satisfy the entirety of that interest.
You describe the subject of your interest by enter few significant keyword and foldier finds source of information about your topic, so keeping you update on a constant basis. foldier brings articles, pictures, videos to you.
You can manage sources, such as blogs or newspapers that are most important to you and – with time – foldier will learn more about your interest and will suggest more sources you have not found yet.
The end experience is greater than a single search. It gives your subject a texture, depth, and well-roundedness. The experience is writing a thesis as opposed to writing a book report.
Furthermore, the bigger the communities the more sources that will be recommended to you.
Micro-Blogging & Blogging
If you want express/suggest some of your data or internet meandering to others, you can do it using sPression, very similar to a blog.
Like a blog, you can publish your own content. All you have to do is to connect Google Docs to foldier and you can publish text documents or spreadsheet or surveys or even graphs, if you are brainy type.
Of course every time you publish something you want your friends on Twitter or Facebook to be alerted. Foldier does that automatically of course!
An Online Tool for organizing your data
foldier is also a great tool to organize data online. Think of it as a file system for the Internet. Your data is housed everywhere within multiple services.
foldier links these services and indexes your data inside them. So you can start searching and organizing your own Internet. With smart folders (that is saved searches) you have a system that automatically filters new content within any connected source according to your predefined search criteria.
The Future
As foldier grows, so will its capabilities. We have quite a few great new features coming (wink, wink). The great discussions that could be had and presented by your sPress. Finally, we love your feedback more than most services. You – the reader of this blog – can shape the future of foldier, just do not call us a twitter-clone, we will take it personally.
The foldier Team
