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See Plum demonstrated at the Demo 2006 conference (video)
February 7, 2006
Michelin Guide Goes Web 2.0
"In the case of ViaMichelin, Plum's technology lets visitors to the site contribute their own restaurant reviews and create their own digital trip planner and travel journal. They can drop in text, links, photos, or videos from anywhere on the Net and choose to share the information only with friends and family or open it to the public."
Business Week, June 17, 2008
Everything Ventured: EuroFroth
"Plum is a neat tool that lets you nab your favorite things from the Web and pass them around to your friends. I am eagerly awaiting the official release of the product..."
Forbes.com, June 27, 2007
Plum (Beta) Review
"Overall, I think Plum offers an excellent free service and its website is very well-made....join Facebook for that purpose and simply add the Shoebox application to access collections. And so, to Plum.com: Bravo!"
The Purple Rock, June 28, 2007
Inside Innovators: Hans Peter Brondmo, CEO and Founder of Plum, Part 1 (audio)
"When you're talking about a start-up company, who you have on the team is just as important -- if not in some cases even more important -- than the idea/product/business itself."
Chris Shipley's Guidewire Connection, January 28, 2007
Now, Free Ways to Do Desktop Work on the Web
"A more fully featured alternative to Google Notebook is coming soon from Plum Ventures, a small start-up company based in San Francisco... With the application you can collect information, whether Web sites, photos, music or text files, and then annotate it and share it with others."
New York Times, June 19, 2006
Plum - Bringing Fresh Flavor to the Entrepreneurial Orchard (audio: direct link)
"You know that old adage 'less is more'? This seems to be a trend for many of today's start-ups when it comes to their view of venture capital. Take San Francisco-based Plum, for example. Julie Farris is a start-up veteran and advisor to this hungry young company that is starving its way to success. In this episode she talks about how lessons from the past helped ripen this company."
Guidewire Group: I of Innovation, April 3, 2006
Who's Building the Next Web?
"That gap was the impetus for Plum, a company he cofounded with his friend Margaret Olson that attempts to eliminate the boundary between your desktop and all the stuff you accumulate on a given topic, no matter where it's stored."
Newsweek, April 3, 2006
What to do with search results? 'Plum' 'em (video)
"Plum CEO Hans Peter Brondmo tells Bambi Francisco how he plans to get users to organize their search results with his service, which he calls the 'then what after you Google,' after it comes available April 1."
Marketwatch, March 29, 2006
Ahead of the Curve: Hot High Tech Produce (video: to see, click "Science & Technology, then "Robotic dinosaur..." story)
ABCNEWS, March 30, 2006
Making my media portal (registration required)
"San Francisco-based Plum is essentially an easy-to-use service that lets you mash up -- to use the au courant term -- what's on your desktop and what's on the Web, putting all of it on one Web page that's not only for your own use but for the perusal of family members, friends and acquaintances, and other potentially interested parties. That is to say: the entire world."
Marketwatch, March 21, 2006
Is Offshoring Coding Yesterday's Fad?
"Hans Peter Brondmo's Web-based 'personal information organizer' has technical chops and global business potential..."
CIO, March 15, 2006
Beyond single searches (registration required)
"Plum.com...is also attempting to allow you to create URL pages with digital content from the Web and desktops that can be shared and designed by more than one person."
Marketwatch, February 28, 2006
Bright Lights, Big Money
"A San Francisco startup called Plum.com that allows users to organize personal content according to their interests..."
Fortune, February 22, 2006
Helping search engines work better
"Web pages can be added to a Plum collection by clicking on a browser toolbar button, which calls up a box for choosing a picture, adding a description and creating an identifying tag. Content on the PC, such as a photo, can be added by clicking in a small program that imports files from a variety of applications. Public collections are analyzed by the service and others that might be of interest are displayed..."
San Jose Mercury News, February 13, 2006
Sites help Web surfers stay atop information overflow
"The secret sauce is an algorithm that analyzes and tries to match content - not unlike how a shopping site makes product recommendations based on previous purchases. Designed to be totally open and easily editable..."
Tacoma News Tribune, February 10, 2006
Emerging Technologies
"I think Yahoo's photo service is terrific, as is Plum's content collection software and site."
The Washington Post, February 9, 2006
Information overload? Tech firms want to help
"Designed to be totally open and easily editable, Plum collections can be e-mailed to other users and even syndicated as an online RSS feed. If you subscribe to someone else's collection, you can immediately see when content is modified or added."
MSNBC, February 9, 2006
Cos. Tackle Online Searches at Conference
"A startup named Plum unveiled a service that lets users group Web pages, e-mail, music, pictures and files from their desktop computers into online collections that can be kept private or made public for others to find."
Associated Press, February 9, 2006
Travels with My Mac
"Plum will perform a contextual analysis called a "Meta-Match," which groups related stuff together for you."
Business Week, February 9, 2006
Wonders Never Cease at Demo
"Rather than synopses, it snarfs whole web pages (with all the graphics and links). And for often-changing sites, like blogs or photo collections, Plum can grab their RSS feeds, allowing pages in the Plum collection to automatically update."
Wired News, February 9, 2006
Cool Tools Day 1 Hilights from Demo 2006 (video)
Plum and a dinosaur, side-by-side
Network World, February 8, 2006
Skeptics See Search Overkill
"A product that aids search was also a favorite for some. Plum, which rides on the tagline 'First you Google, then you Plum,' collects searches and anything else from the web or your desktop. It got points for remixing and binding things together rather than asserting its own domain."
Red Herring, February 8, 2006
Plum launches -- to help you collect everything in one place
"It wants to let you easily collect all URLs, emails, photos, documents, on a particular topic and save them as an easy-to-access collection -- and then let you share it all with others."
SiliconBeat, San Jose Mercury News, February 8, 2006
Reporter's Notebook: Google Casts Shadow Over DEMO
"Plum.com, an impressive new online media and Web page sharing service,
aspires to become a verb as "Google" has. 'First you Google, then you
Plum'..."
Information Week, Februrary 7, 2006
Yet another social bookmark site?
"In Plum, you can tag items, just as you do in other bookmarking systems. But the founders of Plum recognize that many users may not tag their content, so Plum also performs a contextual analysis of your items, and groups them based on that. Plum can display its items on a Web page (in several different formats) and also send you items in e-mail or RSS feeds."
CNET News.com, February 7, 2006
Demo 2006: TagWorld, VSee, Plum
" In some ways it's like Del.icio.us, but the user experience is more mainstream (easier) in Plum..."
ZDNet, February 7, 2006
Demo 2006 preview, part 1
"Plum is introducing a free internet service for collecting and sharing pages, text, photos, feeds, email and sharing it as a blog, list, album or live feed."
ZDNet, February 6, 2006
DEMO 2006 Innovations Advance the State of the Art in Technology
February 7, 2006
Email Vets Unveil Plum
Clickz News, February 6, 2006
Christopher Payne on Windows Live
"OnFolio...allows you to build collections of things something like, although not as complete, it seems what we just saw with Plum a few minutes ago."
Windley's Technometria, March 8, 2006
Plum: Pulling It Together
"Plum, a pretty cool application that mashes up, well, everything... Neat application."
John Battelle's Searchblog, March 8, 2006
Hans Peter Brondmo on Plum
"Plum also creates a destination, if you like, that looks like a blog of things you do."
Windley's TechnometriaMarch 8, 2006
ETech: That's Cool, But So What?
"Plum - a very cool aggregator with an open API."
White African, March 8, 2006
Day One: ETech 2006
"I'm very impressed and excited about their service. I feel we'll all be talking about Plum soon."
David Beach's Blog, March 6, 2006
New Media Picks Of The Week
"Plum is a virtual yearbook that allows you to collect information into one place, minus the cutting and pasting. You can collect almost anything from web pages, blog posts, pictures, emails, and feeds and then share them with your family and friends."
Robin Good, March 5, 2006
In Search of a Better Algorithm
"And there are next generation tagging services coming like Plum that may offer some new ideas in this area of shared search and discovery."
A VC, February 28, 2006
DEMO2006 - Vertical Search - Part 1 of 2: Kaboodle, Inc., Plum, RawSugar, Riya.com (audio)
"Aided by good technology, people collaborating around information may prove to be the only way that Internet-based information remains relevant."
February 16, 2006
New Search Engines
"Lets users group Web pages, e-mail, music, pictures and files from their desktop computers into online collections that can be kept private or made public for others to find."
WebSearchGuide.ca, February 10, 2006
Will New Startup Give Better Search Results?
"Evidently the killer app here is a secret algorithm used to analyze content and match it to others, similar to the shopping site type of matching interests from purchases into further recommendations the consumer may be interested in."
TheAlphaMarketer, February 10, 2006
The value of memory
"It's goal is to help you put all of your favorite stuff in one place - photos, posts, emails, feeds etc. It's still in pre-beta and should be released in the next couple of months."
Three Minds, February 9, 2006
Plum - Collect and share what matters
"Plum lets you put all the stuff you care about, stumble across or need in one place. Collect and save from the web, your email, or your computer. Then personalize and share it with others (if you like). You can even discover other collections like yours and collect them too."
Pathfinder, February 9, 2006
A Taste of DEMO 2006
"Everyone's buzzing about Plum, a new social bookmarking application with easy tools to turn bookmarked content into blog entries, photo album, feed list, etc.."
phase:two, February 9, 2006
Plum - Collect, Share & Connect
"Looks like a cool 'one-stop' online service where you can mash up all your favorite web activities."
CedLed, February 9, 2006
Demo 2006....Showtime 2
"My choices for Demo gods include...Plum"
buzznovation, February 8, 2006
bnox: 200602
"Share your way as a blog, as a list, as an album, as a feed..."
bnox, February 8, 2006
i-boy: Demo Roundup
"Plum looks cool..."
i-boy, February 8, 2006
A (not actually real) DEMO 2006 review
"Collect, Share, and Discover content. Cool!"
Marc Chung, February 8, 2006
Favorite Picks from DEMO2006
"I'm putting this one on my "try it out" list 'cause I'm a sucker for simple interfaces."
DoRealTime, February 8, 2006
just another opinion blog
"from demo 2006 via techcrunch. sounds super cool!"
just another opinion blog, February 8, 2006
Demo 2006...Showtime
"Plum.com, free Internet service that lets you collect and share..."
buzznovation, February 8, 2006
Exciting Demo Stuff
"Plum lets you collect and share all your 'stuff'. It's cool. Think remix and mash-up central..."
Alec Saudner .LOG, February 8, 2006
Plum - Collect, share, and connect your world
cool tools for online fools, February 8, 2006
A Taste of Demo 2006
"Everyone's buzzing about Plum...."
TechCrunch, February 7, 2006
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch
"As an individual that currently goes to Flickr for photos,
del.icio.us for links, and blogs to share, I'm looking forward to
something that wraps it all up in a tidy package..."
Lockergnome, February 7, 2006
VoIP Watch
"Plum is a very cool photo sharing, blog powering and RSS powered
service platform. I saw the new Yahoo Photos platform too, and a lot
of the questions I had posed to Yahoo's spokespersons and demo team
seem to be already integrated into Plum."
VoIP Watch, February 7, 2006
Plum - personal search
"Add your Plum collections to your blog. RSS feeds..becomes a live
collection in plum..."
HorsePigCow, February 7, 2006
A VC: Demo - First Afternoon
"Of all the tagging/social services I saw today, the demo I liked best was Plum...."
A VC, February 7, 2006
Demo 2006: Day One - Afternoon
"Plum is a bookmark application that allows users to extract information from pages and save them in local collections...Pretty cool."
Jeff Clavier's Software Only, February 7, 2006
Read/WriteWeb Filter
"I'm liking the sound of Plum..."
Read/WriteWeb Filter, February 7, 2006
Now's the time to beta test
"One of the sites that I'm personally pumped about is Plum... you know that they're trying to do something big."
Downloads and Web 2.0, February 7, 2006
Building The Foundation With Story
"Caterina points to the launch of Web 2.0 firm, Plum."
AdPulp, February 7, 2006
DEMO 2006 Coverage Part II
Plum collects pretty much all the content that can't hide... It also features shared palylists. Seems all pretty amazing..."
TJ's Weblog, February 7, 2006
Collaborating Around Search
"Users can grab, tag, and bookmark content without downloading it to their desktop. Connections are faciliated over shared interests."
Christine.net, February 7, 2006
DEMO 2006 live footage
The Mobile Technology Weblog, February 7, 2006
Plum
"This product looks very strong and almost too amazing for a small company to have produced. I'm really anxious to learn more. "
whatcounts.com, February 7, 2006
Storytelling and the birth of companies
"On the blog from Plum, a new startup that just came out of stealth, a story about why they started the company, based on a personal story by the founder. It's a great story."
Caterina.net, February 6, 2006
Plum Unveils Free Internet Service that Lets You Collect, Keep and Share What's Important to You
Feb 6, 2006
DEMO 2006 Demonstrators Revealed!
Elite Class of Entrepreneurs Join Impressive List of DEMO Launch Companies
February 1, 2006
