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Track clicks in RSS

You have always been able to track another user’s activity on Bemba via RSS. The RSS feed was a typical first implementation: plain & simple, nothing fancy. Improvements were needed and we implemented three: track clicks, show the site/video thumbnail and show the user’s comment.

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Bemba launches Stats: free link sharing statistics!

Getting feedback makes sharing links a lot more fun. And so we created Bemba Stats! As of today you can see – in real-time – how many times people click on the links you share on Facebook, Hyves, Twitter, your blog and Bemba. Charts, graphs and tables galore! (more…)

Share on Facebook with Bemba

Share on Facebook We proudly present: The Bemba Application on Facebook! All Facebook users can now use Bemba to easily share interesting sites and videos with friends on Facebook. For people who are also active on Twitter, Hyves or have a blog, this is especially good news: use a single service and one button in your browser to share web content with friends on all platforms.
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Daily Video: Jessica Alba Staring Contest

Today’s hot video is Jessica Alba Staring Contest, shared on Bemba by JamesBratts.
Many people use Bemba to share websites and videos with friends. Every day we pick a personal favorite and put it on our blog. Enjoy!

JamesBratts’ comment on this video: “Jessica Alba accepted a staring challenge. Watch her big brown eyes for more than a minute … i love this girl “

Daily Video: AXE Cottage TV Commercial

Today’s hot video is AXE Cottage tv commercial, shared on Bemba by TommyZ.
Many people use Bemba to share websites and videos with friends. Every day we pick a personal favorite and put it on our blog. Enjoy!



TommyZ’ comment on this video: “Great video ad by Axe! Bunch of hot girls are in a cottage and bored. Canadian guys can win a trip there, for real!”

Top 10 Twitter Apps

10 best Twitter apps - imageTwitter is a great social messaging service and business networking tool. It allows you to keep up to date on what friends are doing, tell the world what’s up in your life and meet new people. We use Twitter a lot and not just via twitter.com. Here is our list of the 10 Best Twitter applications.
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Bemba.com Daily Video Top 3

Today’s 3 daily links – Most remarkable websites shared on Bemba todayPeople share great websites and videos with friends every day, using the ‘magical’ Bemba button. Every work day we make a selection of all that is shared, and post it here on our blog. This is the Bemba.com Top 3 for March 13, 2008. Enjoy the Web, together!
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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…)

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…)




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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