Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but we’ve been busy changing and improving Parse.ly for the better!

We did, though, get picked up by a couple popular blogs in the past few weeks. Here a few snippets from both ReadWriteWeb and ZDNet.

Bloggers, muckrakers and news fanatics, lend me your ears. It’s entirely possible that we’ve discovered one of the best approaches to media monitoring since RSS itself. My mother always said, “You’ll never get what you want unless you ask.” But with adaptive feed application Parse.ly, that simply isn’t true. Rather than forcing us to abandon our overflowing feed readers, Parse.ly records our preferences and learns to work with us.

ReadWriteWeb 11/11/09

I haven’t figured out a way to manage Google Reader. I tried using Fever, but it doesn’t find news that matters to me… and it cost $30.  Techmeme is my home page, but I think it needs an upgrade.  I would like a feed reader that saves favorite feeds for me, and finds other content that is similar and interesting.

A new product called Parse.ly caught my eye that makes content discovery a painless process.

ZDNet – The Web Life 11/24/09

Check out our press page for more articles written about Parse.ly.  We’ll update you soon about what we have in store for the future!

Sorry Parse.ly users, but one of our servers unexpectedly failed on us. As a result, we took Parse.ly down.  We’re working hard now roll our backups over to our failsafe and get Parse.ly back up and running.  We should back to normal in a few hours.  We’ll update this post when we’re all good to go.

Check out our feature on Thrillist! Here’s a little snippet:

Nothing beats having someone else do all the legwork, like your sister inviting her sorority friends home for the holidays, or accepting Michael Flatley’s lifetime achievement award for him, and keeping it. Get all the online content you’re seeking sans effort, with Parse.ly.

Don’t forget to check out Thrillist Philadelphia!  And if you’re just signing up for http://parse.ly read our feature, and use the promo code “thrillist” to jump to the top of the beta accounts we’re handing out!

Check out our quick mention in Marketplace on NPR!  The transcript is there, but if you want to listen to the actual program (and hear some Parse.ly voices), you can jump to the 16:40 mark.

Photo from: http://bit.ly/parselyegg

We’re proud to announce that we’re entering the Private Beta stage of Parse.ly!

We’re happy with the interest our little garnish has gathered and are excited to hear some feedback.  Accounts are being rolled out today, over the weekend and in to next week.  Bear with us while we work out some of the kinks.

For now though, you can still sign up for access to our service and setup your interests using the Interests Setup Wizard.  The wizard should be working for most browsers, but let us know if you have any problems with it.  You’ll get an e-mail from us soon (hours, perhaps days) giving you your account credentials, so you can start saving time.

Oh yeah, if you’re reading this post you should get a little treat.  Enter “parselyegg” into the invitation box when you sign up and we’ll move you to the top of the list.

Grow Parse.ly, Grow!

Wow, it is hard to believe that this summer is almost over.  It seems like Cog Tree just moved to Philadelphia for the summer last week!  But a lot has happened and we’re really proud of what we created.  Let me try and breakdown the summer to give you an idea of how quickly we moved:

May 23rd – Moved to Philadelphia to participate in DreamIt Ventures’ second program for the summer.

June 1st – We knew that information overload was a serious problem, and that innovative technologies could be applied to help manage content online.  Though we had an idea of WHO it was affecting the most, we weren’t quite sure about HOW this was specifically affecting companies and people.  So, with the problem simmering in our heads, we went straight to the market to figure out what pain points existed and what solutions were available.  On the technology end, we had to bring a team together and start building out the prototype.

July 1st – Had an initial wireframe that was constructed directly from market feedback and major infrastructure work complete.

July 1st to August 1st – We went back to the market to ask questions about how our free tool could solve problems beyond any other free tool available.  And also asked about what demand there was for specific features that would be built on top of Parse.ly.  From this user feedback, we built Parse.ly.

August 13th – DemoDay 2009.

DreamIt Ventures was an outstanding program that allowed us to really dig deep into a problem that has persisted for the past few years.  We know that we have a solution that will save our users time and money.

Sign up today and we’ll provision you with an account as soon as possible.