We’re focusing on Twingly full-time since about a year ago and from now our name is officially changed from Primelabs to Twingly. It’s really hard to have two brands international, so we decided to let Primelabs die (for now, at least). Rest in peace.
Because of this we’re focusing on blog.twingly.com instead of Primelabs.com. So please add blog.twingly.com to your rss-reader so you don’t miss all the good stuff in the future!
Centerpartiet, one of four parties in the alliance government in Sweden, is the first political party to use Twingly for linking back to blogs. With Twingly they hope to be more open and continue having a good discussion with the blogosphere. The political blogosphere is very active in Sweden and many of the most influential bloggers are active political debaters.
We’ve already given the Swedish bloggers more attention with Twingly Blogstream on many of Sweden’s largest newspapers but with centerpartiet.se as Twingly Partner we hope it can be a new sort of hub for discussions about politics.
Since last year, the party leader for Centerpartiet Maud Olofsson also have her own blog where she publish photos.
Since yesterday Publico.pt, Portugals largest newspaper on the net and the 4th site totally, use Twingly Blogstream to connect to the blogosphere. This means they’re first in Portugal to link back to blog posts that link to their articles.
Our search index contains 370 000 Portuguese blogs.
Publicos own article about Twingly (in Portuguese):
Notícias do PUBLICO.PT com ligação à blogosfera
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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!
IDG in Sweden is the latest addition to the Twinglysphere, using Twingly Blogstream to link back to the blogs that are linking to their articles. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries.
They are also the first site to use the new widget technology which is very easy to integrate and manage. A widget is just a piece of HTML-code that is added to a page template which is a swift way to get new functionality on a website. By using Twingly Blogstream as a widget, there is no need for any extra coding, just copy and paste. This makes it possible for any website to use Twingly within only a couple of hours.
IDG will not only use Twingly on IDG.se but on all of their publication’s websites in Sweden, as Internetworld, Cap & Design etc. Other publications using Twingly are for instance the two major Swedish morning dailies Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet.