Blern Blog

Facebook Integration!

jgoss — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:15:11 +0000

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.

Bebo Added

jgoss — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:11:12 +0000

Blern added support for Bebo today. Like, MySpace, Blern can automatically detect your Bebo profile using the email address you registered with. So there’s no need to update your profile–Blern will do that automatically!

Blern Learns from Mixx and MyBlogLog

jgoss — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:56:15 +0000

Mixx

Mixx, a competitor to Digg and Reddit that’s gaining ground, is now supported by Blern. Blern users with Mixx profiles can now allow Blern to use their Mixx activity to learn more about what they want to read.

Got a Mixx account?

Update your Blern profile now.

Friendfeed users: fear not. If your Friendfeed account is listed in your Blern profile, Blern will automatically incorporate your Mixx activity (provided you’ve also linked your Mixx account to your Friendfeed account).

MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog is also now supported for helping Blern learn about you. Add your MyBlogLog username to your Blern profile now.

More Services: Twitter and Tumblr

jgoss — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:32:24 +0000

They just keep coming. Two new services added recently: Twitter and Tumblr. Got an account for either? Update your profiles.

New Services Added: Ma.gnolia, Photobucket, Amazon

jgoss — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:06:10 +0000

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.

Big Behind-the-Scenes Upgrade

jgoss — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:09:52 +0000

Tonight a pretty big behind-the-scenes upgrade was pushed out to Blern. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you see anything funky at all…

What’s Happening?

jgoss — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:09:32 +0000

What’s going on in Blern-land? It might appear that not much is happening, but what’s really going on is a big rewrite of some of the behind-the-scenes functionality of Blern. There’s a few parts of Blern that aren’t visible to users that have been begging for a tune up so that’s where my attention has gone recently. However, I expect these changes to actually make it easier for Blern to support more new 3rd-party sites to learn from. So keep watching!

Oh yeah… In case you missed it, check out this highlight of Blern on shegeeks.net.

Blern Bookmarklets

jgoss — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:17:04 +0000

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

jgoss — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:03:51 +0000

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

jgoss — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:30:17 +0000

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 you’re given the option to share that link in your Friendfeed. Pretty nifty, eh?