Archive for the ‘Features’ Category

Facebook Integration!

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Blern now has its very own Facebook application! Now you can link your Facebook account to your Blern account and use Blern within Facebook. Here are some of the features of the Facebook integration:

  • Get Facebook notifications when you have interesting new recommendations
  • Post articles you like automatically to your Wall
  • See your Facebook friends’ activity on Blern

To start using the Facebook application, visit this link.

New Services Added: Ma.gnolia, Photobucket, Amazon

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

This week I’ve added three new services thus far: Ma.gnolia, Photobucket and Amazon. Blern is smart enough to automatically find your Amazon Wishlist and incorporate what it learns into your recommendations. However, if you have a Photobucket or Ma.gnolia account, you’ll need to update those in your Blern Profile.

Got a service you’d like to see incorporated into Blern’s learning process? Let us know.

Blern Bookmarklets

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Bookmarklets are now available for marking articles to tell Blern to Show More or Show Less like them. Using these will allow you to tell Blern about your likes and dislikes even while you’re not reading articles on Blern. Check them out at the Blern tools page or below:

Popular Now in WordPress Plugin

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The Blern WordPress plugin now supports displaying Blern’s Popular content in your WordPress blog. To get the updated plugin, visit the Blern plugin here.

Share to Friendfeed

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Here at Blern we love interoperability, for obvious reasons. So when Friendfeed implemented an API, well, it was too good to resist. So now at Blern when you mark a post as Show More Button Show More you’re given the option to share that link in your Friendfeed. Pretty nifty, eh?

Wordpress Plugin Now Does Buzzworthy

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The WordPress plugin for Blern now supports displaying Blern’s Buzzworthy articles. Check out the updated version here.

Now Supporting: Furl

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Yet another service supported by Blern. Want your recommendations improved by the pages you bookmark at Furl? Tack your Furl account onto your Blern account on the My Account page.

Now Supporting: Pownce

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Things keep on truckin’ along here. Now Blern learns more about you from your Pownce account. Got a Pownce account? Update your Blern account here.

Blern Learns From Friendfeed

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Friendfeed is a new lifestreaming tool that has gotten a lot of notoriety lately, namely because it’s a pretty cool tool and also because the founders were bigwigs at Google.

Well, for those of you who are enjoying Friendfeed, Blern can now learn even more about you by analyzing what’s in your Friendfeed. Just update your Blern profile on your My Account page.

Blern Users Also Liked

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Blern now offers a WordPress plugin for your blog! The “Blern Users Also Liked” plugin allows you to display a list of articles on your blog that were enjoyed by Blern users who also enjoyed the current post.

In WordPress plugin speak: This plugin creates a new TemplateTag allowing users to put a widget on their blog that displays a listing of other news articles and blog posts. That list of articles is created by Blern.com using information about users who indicated that they liked the article currently being displayed and contains other articles those users liked.

For example, Blern will look over the history of users who indicated they liked the article currently being viewed. It will then look at the history of other articles those users also liked. It then compiles that information to display a list of articles that were most commonly liked by the users who liked the current article.

You can see an example of this feature in action at the bottom of this post. Or in the sidebar on the right side of the main Blern blog site.

Download it here.