Monthly Archive for June, 2011

See What’s Hot on Bscopes !!

By steveg on June 28, 2011 in Bscopes Features and Concepts. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
Temperamental

Temperamental by Cati Kaoe, on Flickr

The roll out of new Bscopes capabilities continues.

We currently rank the individual blogs within a topic on a 1 (cold) to 10 (hot) scale, using the now famous Bscopes Secret Sauce to collect and compute detailed blog data. When you look at a topic, sometimes there are blogs that score very high (8, or 9, 10).

Where to Find This

Bscopes now publicizes these Hot blogs via Twitter and Facebook. We’ve created a new Twitter user: @Hot_On_Bscopes which you can follow. @Hot_On_Bscopes tweets out these blogs all day long.

How We Do It

Once we started doing this, we noticed something even more interesting. This time we surprised even ourselves. When you take a look at the Topic level and not just at the individual blog level, new trends emerge on a daily basis. So we applied our secret sauce to analyze how an entire topic changes day-by-day.

The result is a current temperature reading for every Bscopes topic (more than 800 of them now). Everyday we thoroughly scan, collect, and calculate every Bscopes topic, and all their feeds, to compute the temperature. Topics are scored on the following scale:

  • Boiling
  • Bubbling
  • Warm
  • Cold

The results are linked back to the individual topic heatmap or blog detailed heatmap for fast, easy, convenient access. What we’ve seen is that Goldilocks lives on Bscopes. Some topics are always hot!  Some go up and down the scale. Some never quite get above the line. And a few might be just right for you.

Since you are already following @Bscopes on Twitter, you might as well now follow @Hot_On_Bscopes. ;)

Create Your Own Personal Heatmap

By Brad on June 10, 2011 in Bscopes Features and Concepts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Working Hard

 

 

You asked. We responded. We have toiled and slaved nights and weekends in our little home offices to create a whole new set of Bscopes capabilities.

Introducing The Personal Heatmap

Before you could pick from over 800 existing topics that totaled more than 60K blogs.

Now, you can mix and match all of those into a custom set of just what you are interested in. Plus, you can add new RSS feeds of your own. If there’s a url with either an RSS XML file or an OPML file, you can add it.

To cut the clutter, select only the blogs you are interested in. Then, every day, use this Personal Heatmap to find out which of just those blogs are the hottest. You can easily bookmark your Personal Heatmap page. Plus, you can even share that URL with others.

What Does It Cost?

Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

You get up to 50 blogs in your personal heatmap for free.

We will be introducing Bronze, Silver and Gold paid memberships Real Soon Now. These will add more features and larger limits for those who can use them.

How To Start

Just create a free Bscopes member account. If you had previously signed up for Bscopes you’ll need to create a new account again. Just click here to get started.