Thanks for leaving a comment on our blog – we would love it if you can use us as an example.

At Socialesque, we’re 100% focused on user behavior analytics for new media – specializing in “analytics on demand” for social networks, online worlds, and video sharing.

Our primary target is marketing agencies/brands who
o want to use new media (video, rich media apps such as games) as a part of their marketing mix
o want to leverage social networks to gain new, and as yet unseen insight into their target consumers

We have built a flexible and scalable service that evolves with the business goals and gives innovators a clear line of sight into their users’ preferences in an unobtrusive manner.

cheers,
Varun

Co-Founder Socialesque

I would be honored and very grateful if you used my start-up for your interviews. Feel free to visit our site or contact me with any further questions.

Cheers

Great idea!

We’d love for you to use Intermz.com!

It helps people get information off their screens and into your brains dramatically faster by giving it to them in terms of knowledge they already have.

Let’s say I want to learn to play piano and I know mountain biking. On Intermz, I could look up piano “in termz” of mountain biking since they share a lot of commonalities; rhythm, technique, practice, training, focus, endurance, and so on. But if a mountain biking context isn’t working for me, Intermz.com lets me switch between other contexts I know–martial arts, cooking, diving–until piano becomes something I understand.

Most search and encyclopedia sites are good at bringing relevant information onto a user’s screen, but it’s still up to the user to get that information into their heads–to understand it. We think using metaphors, analogies, and context is one of the fastest, most accurate, and permanent ways to learn. The best teachers in the world often use these methods.

To put Intermz in terms of Web 2.0, you can think of Intermz as a social network for concepts; instead of being a social graph, it’s a knowledge and idea graph.

We are opening up our private beta tomorrow, September 15th. (If you’d like to try it, I can send you the access information!)

We have two main questions for your guests:

1) How do we make our central idea, learning by analogy, as commonly understood as social networking? Five or 10 years ago, “social networking” began as an abstract concept that was hard to communicate quickly. Now, it’s a ubiquitous part of our vocabulary and lives. How can Intermz speed its transition from abstraction to ubiquity?

2) Our context articles, which we call “lenzes” because they make things more clear, must be written by users. How can we encourage them to contribute?

Thanks a lot, and we look forward to reading your piece.

Ted Pin
Founder, Intermz.com

John