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I had the opportunity to sit down with Robert Scoble of Fast Company TV last week during a visit to the Bay Area. We had a great conversation and I appreciate Robert giving Gist some air time. Here’s the link and video of our chat posted below.
We continue to spread the good word about Gist and I’m excited to get out and about in the next couple of months at a few events. If you are going to be at any of these, drop me a note and we can connect before or after.
Friday, Oct 24 – Fast Company TV with Robert Scoble
Monday, Nov 3 - I’ll be speaking on a panel at Defrag in Denver
Friday, Nov 14 – I’ll be speaking at the NWEN Venture Breakfast in Bellevue
Tuesday, Nov 18 - I’ll be presenting at the VentureWire Technology Showcase in Redwood City, CA
Keep spreading the word about Gist!
At Gist we are busy using the latest and greatest technologies and algorithms to provide the ultimate user experience. Our focus is to provide a wealth of data aggregation across both structured and unstructured data sources and to provide a resource sharing model across our community base for more enhanced ‘user driven’ data aggregation. While we work hard to deliver all of this in a super user interface on multiple platforms (Web, Outlook, iPhone) we are investing in semantic analysis of user data and communication data. We believe we can surface certain semantic properties to the application layer of Gist to fuel some very innovative and valuable features to our users. In Gist, you will find real utility and value, bundled with creative features that we hope to enhance and truly ‘wow’ our users. All of this is coming together rapidly and we are focused on building on the private beta over the coming months and unveiling the product rapidly as we turn the corner into 2009.
Our implementation technology is based in Ruby and Java…both industrial strength languages that promote our need for rapid development and deployment. Bundled with these language sets we utilize Lucene and Solr for news indexing and searching, ActiveMQ for our message broker, and a number of technologies such as Squid, Mongrel and Jetty on our backend infrastructure. In the weeks to come, I hope to elaborate on all our efforts in these areas and welcome any feedback you have.
Thanks for being an early adopter of Gist. We are excited to bring you much more.
Steve Newman, Gist CTO.
We have gotten some great coverage and feedback on our recent launch. Thank you to everyone for the kind words and great input.
Below are a few articles and posts on our launch and here is a recent Q&A I did with Northwest Innovation about Gist.
Xconomy Seattle - Getting the Gist of Gist, from Entrepreneur T.A. McCann
Seattle PI - Paul Allen-backed Gist to offer e-mail service
alarm:clock - Paul Allen Invests in Gist
TechCrunch (France) - We really enjoyed trying to figure out what the French thought of what we are doing.
And congrats to our design guys as we were mentioned on CSS Mania and Webcreme which garnered new users from Italy, France, England and Australia. Gist is going global!
We are very excited about the road ahead and are working through all the beta invite requests. Our focus now is on a very small beta group and having direct dialog about ways we can improve, so if you have not recieved an invite yet, be patient as the experience you will ultimately have will be much better. If you are on the list and really want to get in to help us shape the product, send us email (info at gist dot com) or comment on this blog with your reasons. Keep spreading the word about Gist!