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Re: Four Search Engines Marketers Should Know About

lowell — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:58:39 -0000

Monica. Great post. I'd like to invite you to check out Loud3r. Loud3r is designed as a content aggregation and curation tool for marketers and publishers. Marketers can easily follow 100s or 1000s of keywords while also automatically screening out irrelevant terms, foreign language or other junk from the stream. Let's set you up with a test account so you can compare us to Evri and OneRiot.

Lowell Goss
CEO, Loud3r

Re: Why Newspapers Shouldn't Be Scared of Huffington Post - Politics - The Atlantic

lowell — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:59:59 -0000

There are technology tools available to allow publications to do exactly what HuffPo does. Discover breaking and trending stories. Filter out the duplicates and noise. Curate the best articles (and photos, videos and tweets), Comment and add value (maybe even fact check) and publish to wherever readers want to engage with their content and brands.

I believe that there is a huge opportunity for publishers to embrace technology and the democratization of content creation. Where can content brands mean something? In the recognition of great content creators, the creation of original POV and the fact checking of independently created content. This model is not just financially viable, but it also preserves the value and role of the Fourth Estate as a key component of our democracy.

My company, Loud3r, builds technology that can help publications make this transition. We'd love to hear from you.

Lowell Goss
CEO, Loud3r

Re: Twine+Evri: Black News in Real-Time

lowell — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:19:37 -0000

You should also check out Loud3r. Loud3r provides real-time content aggregation, but with easy to use curation tools built right in. See how we stack up against Evri and Daylife. http://www.loud3r.com/lab/c...

Lowell Goss

Re: Online Content Curation: The Key To Building Visibility, Authority And Value

lowell — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:45:09 -0000

Technology is the missing component for most content curators. The focus of most existing tools is on a very small number of search/alert terms and following individual feeds/authors. Google has shown very effectively that the key dimension to content finding online is the topic/keyword. The same is true of content curation.

Curators need tools that allow them to follow broad semantic concepts like "wine" without creating 5000 Google alerts for every possible keyword about wine.

Lowell Goss
CEO, Loud3r

Re: Huffington Post's Twitter Edition: Curated real-time content?

lowell — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:22:49 -0000

David. My company, Loud3r, specializes in editor and publisher tools for aggregating the real-time web. We'd love to give you a demo.

Re: Waxman to Wolff: Unhand My Content!

lowell — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:59:02 -0000

Wolff and Waxman have managed to take a disagreement about link placement and attribution and make it a real catfight. The cynic in me wants to think it's great attention for two largely unknown brands, but the nastiness is rubbing off on them. Not good.

Re: Good content is hard to find. Leave the dirty work to LOUD3R.

lowell — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:42:09 -0000

More Cool Stuff Coming

Re: Loud3r: What the world needs is a lot more news aggregators

lowell — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:01:51 -0000

Hey, this Lowell, CEO of LOUD3R. Eric, your post had lots of insights and feedback, thank you for that. I'd like to address a couple of points here.

"What if there was a news aggregator specifically geared to your favorite topic?"

That's part of our mission, exactly. The array of user interests is very broad. LOUD3R serves the enthusiasms of our users across lots of topics, many of which are poorly served online. We help users find great content, photos and videos from thousands of sources, and we filter, rank and serve the best content for the stuff they actually care about.

"Loud3r lacks the fine-tuning and community of Techmeme and the search might of Google. So what does it have?"

LOUD3R is just getting started. The algorithm, feeds and glossary for each site/topic is fine-tuned by expert editors on the LOUD3R team. Sharing, commenting, and other community features are baked into the product, and that community plays an integral role in the ranking of stories, submission of stories and discovery of sources. Techmeme is great, we're not out to replace them. We offer a different slice of the web on our technology sites, and many other topics besides (like sneakers, cricket, and MMA) that no one else covers.

Google is not a competitor (nor do we want them to be). But in-so-far as people use Google to bring them news about things they're interested in (via search, alerts, etc.,) lots of Google results are off-target. LOUD3R sites help filter down the stream of information to just the news you want to see, without duplications, spam, splogs and dead links.

Again, we're grateful for input and feedback, and happy to have a discussion. Any comments here are great, and if anyone wants to talk in more depth off-line, please ping me at info@loud3r.com.

Re: louisgray.com: LOUD3R Launches Massive Semantically-Driven Network

lowell — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:29:39 -0000

Hello Nova, this is Lowell from LOUD3R. When we refer to semantic we are talking about adding meaning to the content the system examines.

For each site/topic we launch, our editorial team creates a semantic glossary that defines the concepts, keywords and rules for that particular subject matter area. The software uses that glossary to properly assign topics, disambiguate common phrases and cluster like items together.

Re: louisgray.com: LOUD3R Launches Massive Semantically-Driven Network

lowell — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:17:15 -0000

Hey, this is Lowell, I'm the founder of LOUD3R. Thanks for all the comments and feedback. I'd like to help clarify a couple of points.

Adam, regarding the LOUD3R score If you click on the LOUD3R score you can see the breakdown of the three main components, Quality, Community and Buzz.

The Quality component of the score looks at how "good" we believe the story is. There are a number of factors inluding; the site's reputation, the relevance of the text and the presence of media (photo or video).

The Community component of the score looks at how users are interacting with the story. Are users sharing with friends? Are they clicking and commenting?

The Buzz component of the score looks at the "hotness" of the story. How fresh is the content? Are the contained topics statistically "buzzy"