DailyMe is taking another big step forward today. We’re entering the B-to-B space, making our online news platform available to newspaper publishers and broadcasters looking to compete for eyeballs and ad dollars.

Our new Publisher Solutions suite will let those who run high-quality news sites transform them into advanced online news destinations by licensing the same technology and content that drive DailyMe.com. Publisher Solutions gives publishers the ability to offer their readers novel tools to customize, personalize, aggregate, publish, share and interact with the news that interests them most.

Briefly, the suite allows publishers to:

• Offer its users the ability to personalize the content they consume.

• Provide topic-specific pages that include both site content and/or news from other licensed sources.

• Present related content on every story page.

• Give readers the ability to rank and filter stories using DailyMe's Meme-It widgets, which allow users to categorize news by emotion.

• Let users combine site-based news with user-generated content using an advanced RSS reader.

• Offer various delivery settings and preferences so users can choose their schedule and content format including email, RSS feeds and DailyMe's automated printing feature.

To find out more, please visit our Publisher Solutions page.

Some of the DailyMe team will be at the Online News Association 2008 Annual Conference on Sept. 11-13 in Washington, DC, where we’ll be demonstrating our technology. Please stop by the DailyMe booth (No. 9) if you’re there and we’ll set up a demo.

- Eduardo

Just in case you were crazy enough to miss our Launch Party, we're bringing it to you (in 20 pictures or less, that is).

Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate. It was a great night!

- Lisa

On some sites, when you see a story you like you can vote for it. And this creates a “most popular” ranking. We’ve decided to take community voting a step further.

Now, when you are moved by a story you can Meme-It!

Meme-It lets you vote for stories based on how you reacted to them. Users can choose from six emotional descriptors by clicking on the Meme-It icon, which is a small graphic based on the smiley. The six descriptors are “insightful,” “tragic,” “humorous,” “uplifting,” “enlightening,” and “just weird.”

Then, on our DailyWe section, you can look at the top stories for each emotional category. For example, you can find the most enlightening stories or the most tragic stories of the day. We think putting the news in better context is always a good thing.

In addition, we’ve made two other enhancements to the site:

• We’ve launched video stories, which can be found across our category pages.
• In the email version of DailyMe (HTML only), you’ll find a redesign that includes better navigation and more content. If you aren’t getting daily emails, go to Edit Settings (link in upper right navigation) and click on Set Delivery to arrange for email delivery on the schedule your prefer.

As always, please try our new features and let us know what you think.

- Neil

We are just days away from our Official Launch Party this Saturday. After MANY discussions and negotiations over the blue and green frosting for our designer cupcakes, I think we are finally good to go!

The entire DailyMe team will be there along with Pete Cashmore and Karen Hartline from Mashable who are co-hosting the event with us. If you have not yet gotten your tickets, there are still some available via Eventbrite.

- Lisa

Mark your calendars – the DailyMe Official Launch Party is right around the corner. We will be hosting our party along with Mashable as part of their SummerMash Miami event. So come enjoy a night of cocktails, hors d‘oeuvres, and maybe even a little dancing?

Saturday, August 2, 2008, 7:00 PM
Opium Garden
136 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, Florida

Tickets are limited and have just been released on Eventbrite.

DailyMe also will be giving away 10 tickets to the party to our users. To enter the giveaway, which will be a random drawing, all you need to do is complete our survey about the new DailyMe. Send your name and email address to jennifer [at] DailyMe.com and we'll send you a link to the survey.

We are looking forward to meeting everyone & toasting this milestone!


- Lisa