Archive for February, 2008

DRYing up our views with Rails 2

DRYing up our views with Rails 2By necessity, our views contain lots of repetition. We have “content boxes” with rounded corners. By virtue of MSIE, these boxes are actually boxes inside boxes inside boxes. An example.

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Bemba Alpha test: first results

Share links on TwitterA few days ago we opened up the new Bemba.com to a small group of people. It was exciting and of course this did not happen without problems and bugs on the site. The general impression is positive and that’s good! Let me share some of the feedback with you. (more…)

5 reasons for creating a Bemba Hyve

5 reasons for creating a Bemba HyveWe have just setup a Bemba group on Hyves, the Bemba Hyve! This is a small part of the Bemba roll-out promotion plan and we like to share our reasons with you. Do you have experience in setting up social network accounts for the purpose of promoting a web application? (more…)

Polishing for startup competitions

Polishing Bemba for startup competitionsWe are polishing the new Bemba.com in a closed, Alpha environment. The testing will start on Tuesday 12th of February. If you want to join Bemba during Alpha, let us know. Bemba.com will open in Beta in the next week, getting us ready for the startup competitions that we want to attend. (more…)

The Social News Website’s E-factor

The E-factor of Social News WebsitesEntertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience - although in the case of a computer game the ‘audience’ may be only one person. [Wikipedia: Entertainment]. How do we measure the entertainment value of a social news website? (more…)

A good presentation: 5 key ingredients

Good presentation imageThis blog post is about presentations and successfully presenting to an audience. Arne and I visited the IPAN event yesterday in Amsterdam. Subject: Twitter. Dutch Twitter guru Erwin Blom gave a presentation and he proved once again that he’s good at it. (more…)

Judging the S-factor of a website

Judging the S-factor of a websiteYou hear these words every day: Social media, social web, web2.0, wikis, blogs, social networks, social bookmarking, presence applications, chat,… A connecting key word is ‘social’. A website has to be social these days. Well, it depends on the owner’s goals of course… (more…)




About Bemba Media

Bemba Media is a new social media company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founders Aaron Peters and Arne Dibbits are on a mission to offer people the easiest way to share their web experiences with friends and to discover what’s hot on the web right now.

The company launched Bemba.com in March 2008.

Bemba users share their favorite videos and websites on the social platforms they already use with their friends, like Facebook, Twitter and Hyves. More social networks and (micro-) blogs will follow.

Bemba will become a destination for 'funsurfing' the web, providing easy access to web content that people with similar interests have recently recommended to their friends.

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