Awesome! The Shareaholic Firefox Extension that Jay and I created for Bzzster.com (almost all Jay) was just named a Grand Prize Winner in Mozilla’s Extend Firefox 2 contest.

The Shareholic extension lets you submit any web page to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service. Including:

• Digg
• del.icio.us
• Facebook
• Bzzster
• Reddit
• Twitter
• Tumblr
• and many more…

Big thanks to the contest judges: Garrett Camp (StumbleUpon), Brendan Eich (Mozilla), Jesse James Garrett (Adaptive Path), Tariq Krim (NetVibes), and Joshua Schachter (del.ico.us) and the contest sponsors.

Jay has some really great future features coming. It’s time to innovate quickly now that so many are copying us. I’m looking at you Mahalo Share.


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A couple of weeks ago I commented (Go Disqus! Go!) on a post by Alexis Ohanian where he referenced Compete’s Top Moving Sites of 2007 list.

Alexis was nice enough to send me a huge bundle of Reddit tshirts and stickers once he learned that the Compete team were big Reddit fans. I’ll be dropping these off to the team at Compete next time I’m down in Boston.

Thanks Alexis!

Joshua Porter has organized the 2nd North Shore Web Geek Meetup to be held at The Grog in Newburyport, MA. I missed the first one which I heard was a roaring success but I’ll be there tomorrow.

If you’re in the area please join us.

Yahoo! acquired delicious over two years ago. The obvious integration point for delicious is Yahoo! Search but after all this time they still haven’t integrated the two products.

Yesterday I noticed that Google has begun to integrate my Google Bookmarks into my search results. I used Google Bookmarks for a few months and it pretty much sucked compared to delicious except that Google Bookmarks search actually worked. Delicious’ search interface searches across tags and descriptions, it doesn’t actually search the content of the pages you’ve bookmarked. With Google Bookmarks each page you bookmark is indexed so you can search across the tags, description and the full text of the page.

Now that Google Bookmarks is actually integrated into Google’s normal search results as well I need to revisit replacing delicious again.

Flickr Photo by noahwesley

Man it’s cold here in Boston, spending the week at the Demo conference in Palm Desert, CA would have been fun but there’s too much work to do at Lookery for any time in the sun.

Visible Measures (VMC), a company I’m an advisor to, launched their Video Audience Measurement product this week at Demo 08.

The Audience Measurement product works by having video publishers instrument their video players with a VMC measurement plugin, think Google Analytics for Video. VMC’s measurement plugin is then able to collect behavioral data such as how long users watch and how much attention is spent on every video played with thier player.

VMC also allows video publishers to combine third-party data sources such as demographic and geographic overlays with each video’s usage data. Tying in Lookery Demographic data here would be a natural fit and something I need to follow-up with Brian and Rishi on.

You can imagine that capturing every video event (fast-forward, play/pause, forward to a friend, rewind, etc) could lead to a huge scaling problem both from a capture and analysis standpoint. When Brian asked me if I knew anyone in Boston that really understood how to design BIG ASS™ data services I immediately thought of Chris Gillett. Chris G. was my Chief Software Architect at Compete for over 5 years where he designed a lot of our large-scale data processing systems. Chris G. joins a great technical team that includes Chris Paul, John Saitta and Peter Winer.

VMC also announced this week the closing of $13.5 million Series B round led by Mohr David Ventures and General Catalyst.