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Zuck at Techcrunch Disrupt 2012

guest — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:52:58 GMT

Chris Ferguson, Development Manager for Active.com, and I have been at Techcrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this week. We're here to stay in touch with the latest in technology and to spread the good word about The Active Network. Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg was scheduled to speak at 2, and this was his first public speech since Facebook went public earlier this year. We knew his would be a popular session, so we got to the conference early in order to score a good seat. Our sacrifice paid off as we were 5 rows from the front of the stage (about 30 feet). And to put this into context, there are about 200 rows setup in the conference hall.

The place was packed, and people were crowding toward the front of the stage as they would if we were at a Pearl Jam concert. Zuckerberg does enjoy rockstar status after all. Here's a shot I took looking backwards from my seat.

When the CEO of Facebok finally took stage, I was able to snap a great picture with my iPhone.

Michael Arrington interviewed him. Arrington is by far the best interviewer at the conference this year. I agree with one attendee when she tweeted "I wish @arrington did all the interviews. He's like the Jon Stewart of Startups". As for me, I felt like a school girl seeing Justin Beber in person for the first time. Regardles of how insightful his first public appearance in recent months may have been, it was amazing to be in the presence of such an influential technologist.

Activity Import and Export Comes to Active Local

guest — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:28:56 GMT

Today we released an update to Active Local that makes it super easy to get started to managing your events and activities. Many of you already already use Facebook, Meetup and EventBrite for this purpose, so why would you switch to Active Local? Active Local will not only import your activities to get you started, it will publish all activities you create to Facebook and Meetup. This means you can use Active Local to manage your activity in only one place. Active Local then handles the dirty work of pushing your event out to other channels where your audience may be.

We're constantly adding new import and publish channels. And we're constantly fine tuning Active Local to make it fit your needs. Let us know what you think!

Active.com and Active Local Integrate with Facebook Comments Plugin

guest — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:27:05 GMT

Today Facebook announced the release of a new comments plugin. Facebook says:

The upgraded Comments Box uses social signals to surface the highest quality comments for each user. Comments are ordered to show users the most relevant comments from friends, friends of friends, and the most liked or active discussion threads, while comments marked as spam are hidden from view.

We were proud to be asked by Facebook to launch with them today. See the plugin in action on Active.com at http://www.active.com/running/reno-nv/7th-annual-renotahoe-odyssey-relay-run-adventure-2011 or on Active Local at http://local.active.com/activities/4060-04-17-11-the-presidio-10.