Nsyght

Great review at thenextweb.com

Martin over @ tnw just posted a great review of nsyght. In his words:

As such, the effect is more of being a ’social dashboard’ that routes discussions around content to and from the original sources, but allows you to see it all in one place.

Check it out:  FriendFeed rival Nsyght improving rapidly

Spot a trend before it trends. Nsyght gets popularity

Last week at twiistup in LA we demoed a powerful new feature, showing what’s popular. Well today its ready for general release and it’s pretty cool. So what does it do?

We now can show you what’s popular on the site, either news articles, videos, or even photos. Ok a bunch of people do this kind of trending with twitter right? Well, we do more than twitter, we also take into account what is being shared on Facebook too.

Our popularity engine updates in real time, but as you can see, you can chose to see what is trending today, and this week too.

But wait, there’s more!

One of the things we focus on is adding context to your real time stream. What good is a link if your not entirely sure what that link contains? Well, never be rickrolled again, because nsyght now can display a preview right in the tweet/post itself:

Adding context is really important for us, but so is discoverability. We’ve gotten a lot of praises on our ability to thread twitter conversations in real time. The problem? Threading is only part of the battle, you also have to be able to find discussions too. So we’ve also released a cool filter to allow you to see only discussions in your realtime stream, and of course you can even search for just discussions too:

So you can view all these great discussions on twitter and facebook, but what about discussions that span both services? There are a lot of people that post similar things to both services, to keep up with both discussions today, users essentially have to go to both services. Not anymore, now nsyght can merge discussions from both services together, allowing you to have one discussion in one place:

But wait, there’s more!

Actually no, that’s enough for one release don’t you think? Well we are all very excited about the release today, a lot of hard work has gone into it. As always, we would appreciate your feedback and please watch this space. The have a lot more cool stuff in store over the next few weeks.

Saddle up and let’s go dancing: nsyght to demo at SXSW!

Great news.

This morning we found out that nsyght was selected to take part in this year’s DigitalMission to attend and demo at SXSW Interactive this March! The team and I are very excited to take part and to be representin’ our startup brethren over in Austin.

This will be a unique trip for me as this will be my first time to attend SXSW, but also its a return trip to my home state of Texas. I’m sure this will not mean a thing to the attendees or judges, but anyone else coming over with DigitalMission can be sure to turn to me for suggestions and advice on BBQ and cool places to grab a cold one.

If you are planning to attend SXSW, be sure to drop us a line or follow @djhomeless on twitter. Looking forward to it!

To learn more about Chinwag’s Digital Mission, check them out.

Twitter appears to be down

Our connection with twitter is not currently functioning, and it seems the twitter homepage is giving everyone the fail whale.

Our connection to other services is not affected. Will update once everything is hunky dory again!

**UPDATE**

Everything back to normal. It nicely coincided with lunch, thanks twitter!

CEO of wayn.com weighs in on nsyght

Jerome Touze gives a fairly in-depth review of nsyght. Jerome is the co-founder and CEO of the travel social network, Where Are You Now? (www.wayn.com).

Jerome is not only a fan of nsyght, but he’s also one of our investors. They say that ideas are cheap, its all about the execution and the team. Well let me just say, we are pretty excited to have Jerome in our corner! Have a read!

nsyght offline for an spiffy #upgrade

There is a site-wide upgrade currently in progress. The site should be back live within the next 60 minutes (18:00 GMT at the latest).

Keep an eye on our twitter account or this blog for updates.

Thanks for your patience.

Live search is currently offline for maintenance

*update*

Live search is back up

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We are taking our live search facility offline for two hours this morning for critical maintenance. This will not affect searching or crawling of new data.

We will update this post once the service is back up and running.

Want to find interesting discussions on twitter? Yeah, there’s a feature for that

About a week ago we quietly launched a new feature that we think is pretty cool – an ability to filter and search for just discussions.

Check out this search for Google’s Nexus One that has been filtered by discussions:

If this is a topic that interests you, instead of just interacting with your direct friends you can actually go beyond your circle and interact with a wide variety of people based on your mutual interest in the Nexus One. Or, make sure you keep on top of what your friends are actually saying and discussion, not just single tweets but whole threads!

Don’t be passive, don’t be shy – roll up your sleeves and get involved, collaborate, keep in touch, and discover.

Enjoy

Yeah it’s mildly lame, but we do need your support

What? No releases yet? What’s going on at nsyght?

Worry not, we have a pretty, ahem, big release planned next week. Keep an eye on this space, but it will be cool.

In the meantime, we do need your help to get the word out about nsyght. It’s really simple too – only requires two clicks of your mouse! Woohoo, where do I sign?

When you login to nsyght, you’ll notice a simple link in the sidebar, it looks like this:

When you click it, we randomly insert a hip message into our posting box that you can tweet or post to your Facebook friends. Each message includes a simple link back to nsyght and a hashtag. That’s it. Don’t like the message? Well write a better one, if we like it, we’ll quite happily steal it and rob you of the credit shower you with praise and beg to re-use it.

Much appreciated!

Support for youtu.be

Just a quick note to say that nsyght now support video embeds from Youtube’s new tiny url, youtu.be.

Go ahead and give it a spin!

http://nsyght.com/everyone/?q=youtu.be

Great idea, and yeah while the url is still not as short as it could be, they have in fact sliced 11 characters down from the traditional URL.