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Tipdish: Houston Style

matthewvb — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:08:00 +0000

tipdish is the official title of Houston’s product. Development seems to be moving along well.

Here’s some more info about what it’s all about:

Tippers & Dishers

Think, the tipping point and “dishing” the news. So, “bloggers, podcasters, newspapers, radio people…anybody who gets information out is a Disher. And the Tipper is anybody who has information they want to get out, like a press release, news item, whatever. They want to get information to the public in a crazy way,” says Chris Dolle, Floater (mid-management).

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Social Media Directory for Bloggers @ SW Houston

matthewvb — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:25:09 +0000

Laura Mays suggested a Social Media Directory for Bloggers and it was chosen. What is it? Well, I’m not sure…but I’m sure we’ll have more info tomorrow morning.

Update (9.29 @ 10:38a) [via]

Giving Media/PR chance to blast bloggers with a press release. That’s the idea we’re working on this weekend.

Media side:

-Register/Purchase membership

-Filter out bloggers by certain criteria (location, number of site visitors), gives you a live number of people you’re about to target

-PR companies can see at a glance how they did (500 people got it, 50 people blogged about it–we can figure out how by number of tags, keywords, etc)

Admin Services

-Monitor for spam

-Promote bloggers to different levels

Pay per or subscription? Both.

You do reveal contact information? No. There’s no information given to the PR people about the individual bloggers.

4 Weekends down…next up: Houston

matthewvb — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:35:38 +0000

Good luck to Houston this weekend as they are the fifth international startup weekend to take on the challenge.

We’ve come close with an almost beta launch; let’s see if Houston can get us to the end!…