SemanticMerge mentioned on the site: https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/game-changers/#plasticscm-.... It got it's name after I blogged about it too - http://paulhammant.com/2013/02/14/features-i-would-love-sour... - and am still owed a beer.
Also found this article in the comments of your blog to be interesting:
http://blog.plasticscm.com/2013/04/put-your-hands-on-program...
This article you linked to was interesting too, is this a common workflow on CI solutions now?:
https://blog.snap-ci.com/blog/2013/11/07/automatic-branch-tr...