Nsyght

Help us promote our SXSW coverage. Win some cash, earn some karma – Please RT

In honor of nsyght being at SXSW (we’re at the UK Digital Mission booth, stop by to say hello), we’ve put together a small promotion to help get the word out about our SXSW coverage.

What is it?

Basically, anytime someone tags a photo, a video, or a general update from twitter (or any other service we support), we will show it in real time on nsyght. So, if you’re not here, you can sorta be here vicariously.

So how does the competition work?

1. Create an account at nsyght + add your twitter info

2. Tell your friends about our SXSW realtime coverage:

http://nsyg.ht/sxsw

http://nsyg.ht/sxsw/video

http://nsyg.ht/sxsw/photos

3. Encourage your friends to RT – include the #sxsw and #nsyght hashtags

4. The most RT’s wins $250 in cash. Everyone else wins karma

I know the money isn’t a lot, but come on, just imagine the warmness you will feel in the cockles of your heart for helping out a small startup stacked with cool people. That good karma will last you a lifetime.

Which other languages should we support?

So we’ve had a great deal of success with our Turkish localization, so I thought I’d reach out and ask what other languages should we be looking to support next?

Sure, we could probably support every language you’ve ever heard of and even some you haven’t at the drop of a hat, but fundamentally it’s important to follow the lead of our users. So, what I’d like to ask is that everyone either tweet, post on Get Satisfaction, or even comment in this blog which language they would like to see next. Sorry, for this tranche, we wont consider Pirate, Klingon, or Esperanto.

As a FYI, our current hit list includes (in no order):

1. Portuguese

2. German

3. Mandarin Chinese

4. French

5. Spanish

6. Russian

Let us know what you think!

Merhaba my friend! Nsyght now speaks Türkçe

Nsyght is seeing a lot of growth all over the world, so part of our strategy since day one has been to focus on more than just the English market. Sure, people who use twitter and Facebook might know a little English, but if your going to go to a foreign country, it is really bad form to just *assume*.

So, we have launched support for our first non-English language. Turkey. Turkey is a fantastic market, has an incredibly passionate and social networking-savvy audience, and is one of the youngest populations in Europe.

We are not ending here though. We have a lot of users in places like Brazil, France, Germany, and even China! If you would like your local language to be supported, please get in touch with us or post a message to our Feedback widget.

Parti zamanı!

Making Twitter discussions as good as Friendfeed

So users were pretty happy when we released the feature to notify you when someone replies to you on twitter. That in itself is pretty powerful, because let’s face it, we aren’t logged into Twitter 24/7 just yet. So we recognized that only solved part of the problem.

With services like Friendfeed you can receive an email alert when someone replies to a discussion you are subscribed to, but with nsyght, we just notified you when someone replied to just YOU. Well today that changes. Now, nsyght is able to alert you when someone replies to a discussion that your involved with, just like Friendfeed, so even if the reply is not to you directly. This is pretty interesting, so much “discussion” is lost on twitter with the furious pace of the firehose, and the lack of context from the myriad of @ replies we get in our stream. So, now not only can you search for and discover interesting discussions, but you can also make sure you are kept aware of what people are saying long after you’ve gone.

Ok, we didn’t stop there. Now that you will have your finger on the pulse, we realized that this means your going to WANT to be involved in a lot more discussions. What if we sent you a mail about a comment that you really wanted to reply to, but for whatever reason were too busy to login, was dashing into a taxi, or planned to visit some friendly totalitarian regime that frowned on twitter? Well, worry not, because now you can post discussion replies via email!

And faster than you can say Vint Cerf, viola! Your post is added to the realtime discussion!

As always, feedback welcome.

Top 5 most popular videos of the week

You’ve asked for it, you’ve got it! It’s the most popular videos of the week, as generated by our cool popularity ranking thingamajiggy at nsyght – http://nsyght.com/popular/week/video/?

1. It’s an ad! It’s for old spice! Men will surely feel inadequate!
   The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - www.youtube.com
   

2. The Muppet’s play Freebird! Well no, but I’m still lmao!
   The Muppets: Beaker’s Ballad - www.youtube.com
   

3. Help, I’ve been living in a cave! Just wtf is Google Buzz? Answers at hand!
   Google Buzz - www.youtube.com
   

4. War and Peas – Stop motion T-Shirt war!
   T-SHIRT WAR!! (stop-motion music video) - www.youtube.com
   

5. I’ve not tired of endless coverage of Tiger Woods! Please satisfy my need for media overkill!
   Is Tiger Feeling Lucky Today? - www.youtube.com
   

We are having issues with the Twitter stream

We are currently experiencing issues with our connection with twitter. We are posting items without problems, this just affects inbound information (from twitter).

We are aware of the situation and are working to resolve it. Thanks for your patience.

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!