PubSub to Offer Blog Search Functionality for BurrellesLuce Media Monitoring Services

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 6, 2006–PubSub Concepts, a New York based company that uses proprietary matching engine technology to track online blog and news sources, will be employing their prospective search technology to further expand the online coverage provided by BurrellesLuce, the nation’s leading media monitoring service.

“BurrellesLuce has been monitoring the media for over a century. We have a long history of employing the most current technology to ensure that the media monitoring services we provide to thousands of customers is both accurate and timely,” explains BurrellesLuce senior vice president Art Wynne. “By using the technological resources that PubSub provides, we are able to expand our media monitoring to over 24 million blogs. Once we receive the blog entries that contain our clients’ keywords, our editors will review each one for relevancy and then, as is always the case, transmit to our clients only the news that matches the intent of their search.”

The combination of PubSub’s technology, which is constantly searching the Web for specific content and delivering it in real time, along with the trained eyes of editors who are screening the content and transmitting all relevant news, addresses two key needs of media monitoring clients - speed and accuracy. BurellesLuce’s clients will receive unlimited access to their content through MediaConnect(TM), a media management platform that also offers interconnected access to a comprehensive media database and related customized media measurement data.

“Monitoring blogs to protect corporate reputations has become increasingly vital. PubSub’s prospective search is the perfect tool to use to be informed of what is being said on blogs and other syndicated content as the information is published,” said Bob Wyman, CTO of PubSub Concepts. “Building this customer relationship with BurrellesLuce, a giant in the media monitoring industry, is a milestone achievement for PubSub that further proves the value of our services and the demand from corporate America for the tools which PubSub successfully provides.”

About PubSub Concepts, Inc.:

PubSub Concepts, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2002. The company develops Internet-scale Publish/Subscribe systems and plans a series of product releases designed to make prospective searching a vital element of the Internet experience. PubSub.com provides a free prospective search service that continuously monitors more than 24 million blogs and syndicated Web sites, over 50,000 newsgroups, all SEC Edgar Filings, press releases from major wire services, earthquake data from the US Geological Survey, and FAA airport delay information to instantly alert users whenever material events occur. PubSub’s prospective search provides a real-time notification service made possible by PubSub’s proprietary “matching engine” which, each day, performs hundreds of billions of matches between subscriber requests and newly-published items. Visit http://www.pubsub.com for more information.

About BurrellesLuce

BurrellesLuce is the world’s leading media monitoring company, which offers the most complete coverage and analysis of all media through advanced technology and proven editing processes, providing customers with the knowledge and insight they need to stay ahead of the competition and on top of the marketplace. Visit http://www.BurrellesLuce.com for more information.

Using RSS to Javascript, he was able to copy and paste some code and put it in his blog. When his blog is accessed, the latest headlines from the Literature list is displayed.

Thanks Steve, for a wonderful expression and use of PubSub content.

-Steven Cohen

I’m excited to announce that the latest entry in the PubSub Community Lists project is Literature Blogs.

We’ve teamed up with the folk at MetaxuCafe to help maintain the list.

As always, this list has automatically been included in the slowly growing Reading Lists which Dave Winer so gratiously houses.

Also, we will be releasing 5 more lists over the next 5 weeks. I hope you have an “appetite” for more lists, because you’ll “eat up” what we’re putting out next Monday.

Our 6th Community List is live. We’ve enlisted the help of the folk over at Blogging Systems (Richard Nacht, Paul Chaney, and Chris Bubny) to maintain the list. If you are a Real Estate blogger and can’t find your blog, send a note via the feedback form and they’ll be sure you get added.

We have at least 5 more lists coming over the next few weeks so stay tuned. Also, if you would like to be the editor of a Community List, just let me know

-Steven Cohen
scohen [at] pubsub.com

In the process of gearing up for the Syndicate Conference, we’ve put together a page of aggregated content for blog content coming from attendees, speakers, and companies. It will not only reflect discussion about the show itself, but what is happening in the industry.

Take a look at the page - http://www.pubsub.com/features/syndicate-conference. If you are attending and your blog is not listed, send me a note at scohen [at] pubsub [dot] com.

-Steven Cohen

The Syndicate Conference is coming to the big apple from May 16th -> 17th, taking place at the Roosevelt Hotel. A bunch of PubSubers will be there to welcome you to our hometown. Our CEO, Constantine Gus Spathis, will be particpating in a panel discussion on Structured Blogging, which will also include Chad Dickerson, Eli Chapman, and Jen Consalvo. Scott Abel will be moderating.

You can follow all of the discussion before, during, and after the conference by grabbing this PubSub subscription, which will also be sucking in all content posted to the Syndicator Blog.

We know how important correct statistics are, especially in the blogging community. Our users are very important to us and we continue to strive to provide the best data possible.

Thanks for your patience while we work on the issues.

Steven Cohen
PubSub Concepts, Inc
scohen@pubsub.com

The following message was sent to the Structured Blogging mailing list this morning:

Dear Structured Bloggers,

Since the official launch of Structured Blogging at the Syndicate Conference in December, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. We have been steadily working on promoting the plug-ins, fixing bugs, and getting feedback from the community.

We am proud to announce that we are ready to take things even further. Today, we launch a new website for Structured Blogging. We hope this one will better convey the message of Structured Blogging. On the website you will find a link to the ‘Roadmap’, which outlines where we want to take Structured Blogging and how we’re going to do it. We consider this to be a living document and feedback from all is encouraged and appreciated. It is very important this remain a community initiative.

Your comments, feedback, and suggestions have been great thus far. Keep talking, blogging about and promoting Structured Blogging in your communities and industries. Our biggest promoters are our users and developers.

We have also placed a link on the page if you are so inclined to provide donations for future development.

We would also like to thank the following individuals.

* Richard McManus for helping create the content on the new website.
* Zoran Markovic for graphic work on new site.
* Phil Pearson for all the work he has done with fixing bugs and responding to your questions.

And of course a big thanks to all who have supported the initiative thus far.

Spring training is over and it wouldn’t be the first week in April without Major League Baseball’s opening games. Also, it wouldn’t be baseball season without PubSub Baseball. Whether you want to track your favorite player or team, PubSub can help.

PubSub Baseball is a collection of free, pre-built subscriptions providing customized delivery of baseball content from the blogosphere and syndicated Web sites. PubSub Baseball enables sports journalists, baseball fans, and enthusiasts to follow what is being said about American League and National League teams and players. Our baseball offering can also help fantasy baseball coaches get a leg up on their competition.

Check out the recently updated Baseball feature page at www.pubsub.com/features/baseball. The green plus signs can be used to easily add individual player subscriptions to your personal PubSub account. Don’t have an acocunt? Get one.

Don’t miss the stories you are interested in because of time wasted refreshing your screen or constantly checking for updates. The PubSub Sidebar is a free tool that lets you view your PubSub subscription results right in your Web browser, in real time. With the Sidebar, you’ll get links to any news stories, blog posts, or other items that match your interests, just as soon as they’re published on the Web.

Based on the same open-source technology that powers the popular Jabber IM platform, the PubSub sidebar offers instant notification of matches for your PubSub subscription, right in the place where you do all of your Web work: your Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. With the PubSub sidebar, any of the results for your subscriptions will be delivered in real time, seconds after they are published.

We have just released a new “beta” version of the Sidebar for Internet Explorer. Please give it a try, and let us know what you think!

In addition to many brand-new improvements, the latest version of the Sidebar for Internet Explorer also offers some features already found in our Firefox sidebar. The changes include:

+ You can now delete unwanted messages from the display.

+ Are you a LinkRank fanatic? Do you find yourself staying up past the midnight hour to find out your new LinkRank score? For those that can’t get enough LinkRank, there is now a built in LinkRank feature in the new sidebar. It displays the LinkRank of the currently viewed page in a small window at the bottom of the Sidebar. Why is this useful? If you click on a displayed result you can find out right away whether the information is coming from a well-respected site, based on PubSub’s LinkRanks.

+ Do you move around with your laptop and get disconnected from wi-fi networks? With old versions of the Sidebar, you had to manually reconnect to the Sidebar. The new version detects dropped connections within 30 seconds and reconnects itself. As one of our staff members put it: “I was working from home and went to Starbucks. I was reconnected as soon as I logged onto the network at the coffee shop.”

+ We’ve added new connectivity features that allow the Sidebar to connect to our servers from behind many corporate firewalls, and will be addressing any lingering issues over the next few days, based on beta-user feedback.

+ The new IE Sidebar now allows for logging in automatically when opened.

+ There’s a new “preferences” page, offering the following options:

* Allow local deletion of unwanted messages (true back-end deletion is a much bigger deal and is still down the road).
* Headlines-only display.
* Automatic login.
* Fetching/display of Linkrank data.
* New-message counter: Lets you know how many results have been delivered since you last logged in.

You can download the IE Sidebar beta (version 2.018.07) here.