Faves (software)
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| Blue Dot Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | Seattle, Washington (2004) |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington |
| Key people | Mohit Srivastava, Co-Founder |
| Industry | Software & Programming |
| Website | www.faves.com |
Faves is a social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to "fave" a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile. Until October 2007, Faves was called Blue Dot.
While offering a service similar to the better-known del.icio.us, Faves has a wider range of functionality that encourages interaction with "friends" in rating the content of linked webpages.[1] When a registered user visits their Faves home page, they see a summary of the bookmarks, called "Faves" by the company, that have been most recently shared by their friends.[2]
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[edit] Features
In addition to features shared with other bookmarking and social bookmarking services, Faves provides an in-page dialog for saving a Fave, thumbnails generated from the page, dynamic voting, and topic-based auto-generated favorites pages.
[edit] History
Blue Dot Inc. was co-founded in 2004 by Mohit Srivastava and Sumit Sen using $1.5 million from angel investors, and the website bluedot.us was launched in June 2006.[3] Blue Dot hopes to profit on of sales from "dotted" websites from its affiliate marketing program,[4] and is part of the technology resurgence in the Washington Puget Sound area.[5]
Early on, Blue Dot actively sought interaction with early adopters in "pizza and soft drink" focus groups on campus that have been cautiously criticized by some academics.[6]
In 2007, the service was renamed Faves. As of December 2007, the web site still lists the company name as Blue dot, Inc.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Satoshi, Harmony. "BlueDot「元祖」del.icio.us に挑むソーシャルブックマークの「進化系 (Blue Dot challenges the innovator del.icio.us in social networking)", CNET (Japan), 2006-07-21. Retrieved on 2006-12-18. (Japanese)
- ^ Herb Weisbaum interviews Blue Dot Connector, Kabir Shahani [Television News]. Seattle, Washington: KOMO 4 News.
- ^ Kirkpatrick, Marshall (2006-07-06). "Blue Dot is not just another social bookmarking system". TechCrunch. Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
- ^ Bermant, Charles. "Blue Dot marks the spot for sharing best of Web", The Seattle Times, 2006-11-13. Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
- ^ Peterson, Kim. "2006 Year in Review: 10 developments that kept local tech companies in the news", The Seattle Times, 2006-12-11. Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
- ^ Cook, John. "Startup social networking sites find targeted, willing helpers on campus", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006-11-20. Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
