haha, we actually met Postling's CEO at an event in LA. I believe that we're complementary services -- they're more focused on the "publishing" whereas we're focused on the "listening".
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Past: University of Washington '06 Computer Engineering and then Zillow, Optify, and BuzzLabs.
there's a UserVoice "feedback" button on the left side of the screen -- was that not obvious?
thanks for the feedback!
Always been a lurker, love what I learn on here. Would appreciate your thoughts (good, bad, ugly) on a startup I've been working on. The company is BuzzLabs, a six-person Seattle startup. We've received strategic seed funding from a large player in the local business space.
The goal is to save business owners (think restaurants, hotels, spas) the hassle of checking dozens of sites to find out what people are saying about them online. They want to focus on improving their business instead of surfing the web and figuring out what's relevant and interesting to their business.
Our technology aggregates social media activity for a local business (i.e. reviews, tweets, blog posts, etc.) into one place, and supplements that activity with deeper analysis and trends. Behind the scenes, we're doing relevance filtering, scoring, classification, and natural language processing to make the report relevant and meaningful.
We've built two separate products on the same technology platform: Find My Buzz (http://www.findmybuzz.com), and an interactive dashboard (http://www.buzzlabs.com). Find My Buzz is intended to be a lightweight, stop-and-go version of the dashboard -- simple, less-frequent printed consumption by small business owners. The dashboard is for larger businesses/chains with lots of online activity, where daily, aggregate "real-time" brand monitoring is crucial.
Any feedback would be appreciated. I can also be reached at [jason at buzzlabs dot com]
Thanks in advance, Jason Tan, CTO