The DailyMe editors usually devote most of our attention to our bread and butter – the top news and events of the day. But even we occasionally break to enjoy something other than bread and butter. Our latest foray into something more savory is our Holidays page in our Lifestyles section . While we created the page for Halloween, it’s really taken off with the approach of Thanksgiving and Christmas.

You’ll find a delicious mix of stories from leading newspapers on the page, giving you holiday travel advice, decorating tips, recipes and more. Don’t forget to check out the videos, where you can see tips for picking the right wine for Thanksgiving or keeping down costs as you entertain. Bon appetit!

In case you didn’t notice, we’ve added a couple of other new sections as well. Our Opinion page carries a selection of editorials and columns from top newspapers. With the election behind us, we’ve revamped our Politics section to provide coverage of the transition in our The Presidency section and a closer look at what Congress is doing in our Capitol Hill section .

- Neil

The U.S. presidential election is but two weeks away and you may be feeling overwhelmed by the exceptional levels of media coverage. How do you stay on top of developments that people are discussing? That’s exactly the problem DailyMe was created to solve – help you discover the news that is important and useful to you.

Are you a political news junkie, just want the latest buzz or want to dig into the issues? Our Election section has a full slate of news and information for you. In addition to a main news page and candidate pages, we recently added a page on where the candidates stand on issues such as taxes, global warming and energy. And last week, amid all the chatter about Joe the Plumber, we even created a special page on that topic. Expect more breakouts as news warrants.

Across all of the elections pages you’ll find articles from our top sources, plus video reports and feeds of Twitter comments.

Check it all out in our Election News section.

- Neil

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