Secondbrain Expands, Integrates Facebook and Others
Now building the largest online content library in the world, step by step, Secondbrain gains traction toward a powerful dream
Oslo, Norway (PRWEB) -- In its quest to create the world's largest and most
compelling user generated content library, Norwegian startup Secondbrain
further expands on Web functionality and community. Secondbrain's
development team made groundbreaking strides to help people discover
and organize their online content. The service just counted its 10000
user signup just prior to announcing the aggregation of ten more social
media services, including FriendFeed, Facebook, Diigo, Reddit, Mixx,
Tumblr, Qik, Goodreads and Behance.
This is just the beginning, as Secondbrain will be adding more services
and features each week. The company believes that these new additions
will encourage even more people to use its platform to organize
content. Unlike services it's been compared to, Secondbrain goes far
beyond simple social media aggregation. Instead of just featuring
bookmarks, links and screenshots, Secondbrain enables users to develop
tag-based collections of content, organize and search through
libraries, network with people with similar interests and discover all
new content. Secondbrain not only engages community users, but
effectively and actively supports those services its users demand. With
every incremental addition, the Secondbrain platform becomes more
powerful and so do the services it supports.
The Secondbrain platform is richer, more compelling and more effective
one than anything else presented by other online aggregation services.
Users benefit because their profiles gather content from all social
media services they use in a single place, regardless of the format in
which this content is presented: text, bookmarks, slides, video, images
and sound are all effortlessly integrated within the Secondbrain
library. In effect, Secondbrain is a step closer to the true ideals of
the Web 2.0 movement, thus transforming a cliché into a reality: the
company offers a free, open platform where semantic content from all
over the Web awaits a click of the mouse.
Secondbrain can be seamlessly integrated in Firefox, IE and other
browsers and aggregates user content from other social sites in real
time, without interrupting the user's Web experience. Being perhaps the
Web's best candidate as a touted "all in one site", Secondbrain
continues to break down barriers for users; "This is what being a true
aggregator, library and community is all about" according to
Secondbrain CEO Lars Teigen. He also had this to say about the vision
Secondbrain is trying to relate to new users:
"When people think of a true 21st Century library, they think of all
media, all knowledge and ease of access in one convenient place. This
is what we are building at Secondbrain, not simply a lifestream or a
broken collection of meaningless links, but an actual next millennium
library - the largest one of its kind in the world!"
Launched in March 2007, Secondbrain spent time perfecting its platform
in Alpha mode. Ready for the spot light, they launched Beta 2.0 in
April 2008 enticing new user signups with what was a very popular and
effective contest: Secondbrain's MacBook Air giveaway. Not many
startups have gone so far as to reward users for their contributions so
richly. Seed funded by Making Waves AS, Secondbrain is now expecting
the next series of funding to accelerate its expanded development.
Secondbrain has also cemented its dedication to users with excellent
support and prompt response to user feedback. Another Web 2.0
philosophy is alive and well within the Secondbrain community - the
notion that user contribution is the key to perfection. The addition of
these new services, and even the new landing page design that will
welcome the Secondbrainiacs as of today, are all results of this
interaction between site administrators and community.
About Secondbrain
Secondbrain was founded in 2007 by Lars G.
Teigen - now the company's CEO. Teigen co-founded Making Waves AS - one
of Norway's leading Internet business consultancies, and the source of
Secondbrain's seed funding.
Secondbrain provides powerful tools to discover and manage content,
discover highly relevant content through others and to discover other
people through content. Ultimately, Secondbrain's vision is to become
the place for All Your Content. For more information visit the Secondbrain.
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