Press
Audio
“Six Minutes With ... Kristofer Mansson, CEO of Silobreaker” – 30 May, 2008
"With Web content growing exponentially, a need has been created for better search options. In this episode, Kristofer Mansson, CEO of DEMO 08 company Silobreaker, discusses giving users more options to find better results."
“Stephen Evans at BBC World Service interviews Silobreaker’s CEO” – 29 April, 2008.
Silobreaker goes beyond the news headlines to uncover the latest trends – 26 March, 2008
Podcast from Network World: "A new search engine upstart making waves is Silobreaker, which has created a search system for users wanting more than just the latest news headlines and looking for deeper analysis and trends. Silobreaker CEO Kristofer Mansson talks about how the site works, what data it can deliver and how it differs from that other big search engine dominating the news."
Video
Silobreaker’s presentation at the DEMO 08 Conference in Palm Desert, California.
Recent media coverage
“55 Incredible New Websites” – 5 June, 2008.
“From media sharing and graphical search to social shopping and mobile blogging, we reveal this summer's must-visit online destinations."
“Silobreaker: When Intelligence Officers Solve Their Own Info Problems” – 21 May, 2008.
“But Silobreaker’s engineers understand that for financial, intelligence, and police, typing key words is not what wins loyal users. Not surprisingly, when a “real” interface like Silobreaker’s is shown at a trade show, a crowd gathers. The problem is that users can’t get their hands on “real” information services. It’s a Eureka moment that is very difficult to convert into an information addiction. Believe me, once you use a system like Silobreaker, typing key words is not the way to search”
"Microsoft
Backs News-Crunching Startup" – 19 February, 2008
“My colleague Richard Martin was so impressed the he picked Silobreaker's technology
as the coolest thing he saw at Demo.”
"Breaking
Out Of Those Silos" - 19 February, 2008
“If you're looking for the future of news, a pretty good example of it is at UK
startup silobreaker…. and it puts pretty much every other news site to shame.”
"Silobreaker Breaks Out Online"– 15 February, 2008
“Our chat with Silobreaker's top executive brought us one of those 'red pill' moments,
something rare and unexpected in a technology world filled with derivations and
variations on a theme. Silobreaker is a news site, and at the same time, it isn't.”
"Silobreaker zeigt Nachrichten ganz anders"– 15 February, 2008
“Besonders spannend ist die Geomapping-Funktion, die anzeigt, wo die derzeit relevanten Ereignisse stattfinden.”
"Silobreaker - Noticias inteligentes"– 8 February, 2008
“Con todo esto, es posible que no sea la página más cómoda de leer cada mañana para
saber qué ha pasado en el mundo, pero resulta muchísimo más
útil que el resto para estudiar un tema en concreto.”
"Search tools made clever" - 8 February,
2008
"Silobreaker can also chart article volumes by media type, identify geographic
news hotspots and, impressively, map relationships between topics in the form of
an interactive network.
"The Search Market Fallout Of Microsoft-Yahoo" -
9 February, 2008
“The clash of the titans atop the search pyramid is opening up new opportunities
for smaller players while helping to enable a broad flourishing of innovation in
information-access technology... Take Silobreaker, which debuted its contextual
search engine at last month's Demo conference..."
"Silobreaker
Brings a Graphical View to News Research" - 7 February,
2008
"The smart context extraction and relational analysis of Silobreaker is by far
the best I have seen in the semantic search space. Silobreaker quickly becomes indispensable;
it is an invaluable research tool with a sophisticated algorithm that I’d like to
see proliferate in the search market."[Says Chris Shipley, executive producer
of DEMO]"
"Silobreaker is a superb news resource" – 6 February,
2008
“It's not that often that I'll just sit and work my way through a search engine these
days and go 'ohhh!' and other such expressions of surprise and delight. However
when I took a look at Silobreaker that's exactly what happened.”
"The Coolest Thing I Saw At DEMO" - 31 January,
2008
"Every year at Demo there's one presenter that captures my imagination and actually
seems to be providing something that I will find useful. This year, while Skyfire
showed off the beta of an intriguing new mobile browser and BitGravity displayed
its power new network platform for high-definition video, the choice was easy: Silobreaker."
"Picking
the winners at the DEMO conference" - 31 January,
2008
"It's rare that a Web site offers a genuinely new way of looking at information.
But that's what you get with Silobreaker"
"The
Best of DEMO 08" - 30 January, 2008
"BEST PITCH: I didn't have the chance to watch every company, but one that really
hooked me was London's Silobreaker."
"Silobreaker advances social-network visualization" -
30 January, 2008
"Silobreaker's visualizations add huge value to the company’s underlying news-aggregation
service."
"DEMO: Silobreaker offers quick views on media trends"
– 30 January, 2008
“It reminds me of Tom Cruise manipulated a futuristic computer with his hands and
tossing out things he doesn’t need and seeing relationships that he couldn’t see
before as a result.”
"Silobreaker pitches ‘insight as
a service’" - 30 January 2008
"Silobreaker offers a new twist on news aggregation and search navigation."
"SiloBreaker: More than just the latest headline news" - 31 January, 2008
"SiloBreaker was one of my favorites at DEMO this year. Based on statistical
relationships, they are the first company I’ve come across that is able to perform
sophisticated visualization and text analytic-like functionality on large unstructured
data sets like news articles."
"Silobreaker: Information, Context
and Correlation" - 31 January, 2008
"Of all the products that I saw at DEMO 2008, none impressed me more than Silobreaker."
"DEMO 08:
My Favorites" - 31 January, 2008
"Silobreaker - An innovative trend analysis site with lots of visual goodies
to dig deeper.”
Press releases
Silobreaker Selected for Web Mission 2008 – 17 March, 2008
Silobreaker Invited To Join Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program – 19 February, 2008
Silobreaker Redefines News Search, Launching Ground-Breaking New Service at DEMO
08 – 28 January, 2008