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Which feature do you wanna see next? We have a lot of ideas and new cool features in the pipe but it’s quite hard to decide which we should focus on. That’s why we have an open tech plan so we could get some help from our beta users! Vote, suggest and comment on the features. Help us decide the future of Twingly!

We can’t guarantee that we devoloping any of the ideas or when we do it, but we really look at them for real. And we love feedback and ideas so please throw them on us! If you don’t have access to the beta, sign up or send an email to feedback@twingly.com.

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Today we launch a next-generation blog search engine at Twingly.com. Participate in the invite-only beta by getting invited or signing up at beta.twingly.com. So what’s cool with the new Twingly.com?

Spam free, social search
Twingly takes a zero-spam approach to blog search using an algorithmically expanding white list instead of the traditional blacklist. Powerful moderation tools allows us to win the fight against spam by one-click removal of clusters of tens of thousands of spam blogs. Fat tail manual moderation yields quality input to long tail algorithmic filtering.

Social search features allows users to share quality content with each other and the community as a whole.

Powerful search language and tech plan Digg
Twingly provides the world’s most powerful search language for blogs, where search filters can be combined in new ways.

But we’re not done by far! Participate in voting on our tech plan by signing up for the beta. JSON api? OPML import or APML export? Help us decide what’s next!

Techcrunch post is here and Techcrunch UK here.

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Dagbladet.no is the first Norwegian website to use Twingly to link back to blogposts that is linking to their articles. They have used our widget at some articles for a while now but since yesterday it’s used at the whole site, to our and the bloggers delight.

This means that we’ve got Twingly Partners in the whole Scandinavia! Yeey!

More:
Dagbladet.no - Vi linker till alla som blogger om oss (in Norwegian)

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The daily newspaper Politiken was the first in Denmark to join the Twinglysphere, when they yesterday launched Twingly to link back to bloggers.

-With Twingly we hope that bloggers should add interesting comments to our editorial content, says Michael Arreboe, head of new media at Politiken. It is a part of our long term online strategy.

The reaction from the launch has been very positive in the national blogosphere where we currently index about 55,000 blogs.

Here is a sample of how Twingly look at Politiken (under the article): http://www.politiken.dk/tjek/digitalt/article467920.ece

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OMG, we’ve been Techcrunched! Martin met Michael Arrington at the DLD conference this week and now there is a post about Twingly!

The post also contains some new information about the future of Twingly: Except the screenshot (see below) is there also an explanation how we gonna make our blog search engine spam-free!

Can you imagine a spam-free blog search engine? I promise we can, even though it’s quite hard to develop!

The search engine will be different from others, Källström says, in that it will be almost 100% spam free. How are they doing that? Instead of trying to index every blog in existence and then removing spam via black lists and other methods, they are limiting the blogs they monitor to those that are proven to be legitimate. They started with a small list of known blogs, and then spidered out from there based on links to other blogs. The assumption, which is fairly sound, is that good/real blogs will not link to spam blogs. The end result is a white list of real blogs that are indexed - everything else is ignored.

Martins transcription from the panel that discussed Humans Interupting Algorithms at the DLD conference was also published here. Martin, you rule! Links from both Read/WriteWeb and Techcrunch same week.

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GLife is the first social network that starts using Twingly. They’ve already launched on Nightlife.se and Glife.se on all of their articles. Later, they’re also going to use Twingly as a trackback function on their member blogs.

The inclusion of Glife and Nightlife now mean that over 40 web sites are using Twingly to link back to blogs!

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The biggest daily newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat launched Twingly today to link back to the blogs that link to their articles. In that way they will stimulate the blogosphere to cover their articles even more extensively.

- We look forward to the response from the Finnish blogosphere and hope for an interesting debate, says Lassi Kurkijärvi, Business Development Manager av Helsingin Sanomat Digitala Media. As the biggest newspaper in Finland we get a lot of attention from the bloggers. To develop that relation we now start to link back to the bloggers, and it will be exciting to see the outcome.

Twingly is currently indexing about 35,000 blogs in Finland and has a Finnish version of the ping service at Twingly.com

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Ekonominyheterna has launched Twingly Blogstream to open up to blog comments on their articles. They are the business and financial news from the Swedish TV-channel TV4 and the first business publication to join the Twinglysphere with Ekonominyheterna.se.

-We look forward to the blogger’s comments on our articles, says Ulf Skarin, Chief Editor at Ekonominyheterna.se. We think it is editorial interesting to connect traditional journalism with the enthusiasm and knowledge in the blogosphere.

In the Swedish blogosphere there are a lot of buzz about business issues, but there are not that many niched blogs about business and finance. We hope that Ekonominyheterna’s integration of Twingly can help to change that to stimulate even further discussions in the blogosphere on financial matters.

We welcome them to the Twinglysphere and hope that it should give them a good relation with the blogosphere to generate more traffic and interest in their news.

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The most influential blog in Denmark is the political blog Uriasposten according to the Twingly Report we release today of the Danish blogosphere.

Other blogs with great influence are Slagt en hellig ko and Hovedetpaabloggen.dk while the blog from the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen who with great political influence only has the 45th most influential blog in Denmark.

The report is based on number of links from other Danish bloggers, which is a good way to measure the influence and interest within the blogosphere, and reflects posts from June 1 to August 27, 2007.

The report is published in conjunction with Cision, former Observer, who have formed a partnership with Primelabs to be able to offer analysis of the Danish blogosphere to their customers, in addition to traditional media analysis.

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Today the global successful TV-show Idol (the Swedish equivalent of American Idol) started using Twingly at the official website at TV4.se. They are using the Twingly widget to link back to the blogs that are linking to their articles. Idol in Sweden is just as popular as the show is in many other countries and is one of the biggest TV-shows at TV4 this fall.

This is the first time Twingly is used on a niche and trend sensitive website to connect with the latest in the blogosphere.

We welcome TV4 to the Twinglysphere and wish the best of luck to all new Idols!

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