The Brinkwire Blog

This is the second in the “Brinkwire features” series of blog posts. Our goal is to help explain some our unique selling points and features. Brinkwire uses a reblog button on our hosted press releases. It’s powered by Zemanta and is a quick and easy way to encourage bloggers to spread your news. There’s a [...]

The Reuters UK blog has added a Twitter widget to their sidebar. A few months ago we might have presented this news as evidence of the impact Twitter is having on the media. Not today. Today my first thought was that this was a good move as it helps convince readers that the @reuters_co_uk Twitter [...]

The social media technology platform Pluck has bought CoveritLive. Pluck, from Demand Media, offers everything through commenting and community to content discovery and related posts. Here in the UK Sky News makes use of the service even though Pluck On Demand isn’t yet available outside the US. CoveritLive is a platform which lets people build [...]

The Great Goog has released a major update for Chrome. Not Chrome OS but the original Google browser that seems to have updates and small releases every other day. The headline news will be the speed and the themes they’re rolling out. It’ll be the HTML5 support that they’ve included that’ll interest the tech blogs [...]

Here at Brinkwire we’re huge fans of Zemanta. The plugin is an easy way to make you blog better and for less effort. The widget scans your blog post to suggest links and tags but perhaps our favourite feature is how it finds appropriately licensed pictures to use with the post. Zemanta also provides a [...]

It is pretty easy to find influential people in the social media and online PR community who are great fans of Scribd. Scribd lets people upload PDF files to a central hub but then avoid the annoyance of forcing people to read the contents of the file as a PDF. It’s annoying having to download [...]

The world’s largest widget community Widgetbox announced three extra enhancements for their professional customers last night. Slideshow Pro Slideshow Pro lets users create a custom slideshow in a widget. To an extent this will compete with the likes of Google Docs which lets users embed their presentations or even Slideshow and Scribd. Widgetbox’s advantage is [...]

Google’s just updated their blog search to include trend data. On the right of the page you’re now able to see what the hot queries are on blog search and some of the latest posts. We notice that far from every blog qualifies to appear in the ‘latest posts’ section. This adds weight to the [...]