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Today we are unveiling our latest release of DailyMe, featuring better personalization technology, a new community area and our much awaited behavioral recommendation engine, Newstogram™, both on DailyMe.com and in our Publisher Solutions Suite. Newstogram™ lets you see the categories, people, companies and topics you’ve been reading about and will make story recommendations based on your interests. Newstogram™ recommendations are made in the ‘Headline News for You’ area in the center of our home page and also in the right rail of most other pages.

Our latest version has furthered our efforts to provide individual users with personally relevant news. It also encompasses a community area where users can discover and share news among one another. It further advances the user-centric approach that DailyMe believes will best serve news audiences.

We’ve given the site a new design and layout and added some key functionality to the left rail of every page. Among the new features, you should note:

• Track-It - Easy, one-click system to track news from anywhere on DailyMe.

• My Beat - Your place to clip articles from DailyMe or from any other website and share your news with others. You can even write articles and post them to your Beat.

• My Community - Discover news that interests you through other user-editors and the news they clip or write.

• Multiple Digest Delivery - You can now schedule delivery of your news by topic, day and time (business news in the morning, sports and tech in the afternoon, perhaps).

Enjoy!
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Today was not lunch as usual at DailyMe. I attended an eye-opening IAB sponsored webinar with Neil, our President and Chief Product Officer, on a topic that left both of us, well, the opposite of speechless.

It was presented by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, an organization that has recently devoted time and resources toward the defense/protection of online advertising from proposed legislation. Special attention has been given to the “long tail” media, publishers like DailyMe that offer a large number of articles from a large number of sources, each in relatively small quantities, who may suffer greatly if the legislation goes through.

Throughout today’s session, two points came across clear: First, this proposed legislation could adversely affect both publishers, whose business models are ad-based, as well as consumers, who have grown accustomed to the free, timely and quality content delivered on the internet. Second, this policy, known as a “Do Not Track” registry has received some press, but not nearly enough, as Neil notes on his blog.

- Lisa
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