Faves (software)

Infobox Company
company_name = Blue Dot Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = Sites you'll love, from people like you
foundation = Seattle, Washington (2004)
location = Seattle, Washington
key_people = Mohit Srivastava, Co-Founder
industry = Software & Programming
homepage = [http://www.faves.com 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. [cite news | last = Satoshi | first = Harmony | title = 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)| language = Japanese | publisher = CNET (Japan) | date = 2006-07-21 | url = http://japan.cnet.com/column/somethingnew/story/0,2000067121,20176807,00.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-18 ] 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. [cite video | title = [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=340976308175590219 Herb Weisbaum interviews Blue Dot Connector, Kabir Shahani] | medium = Television News | publisher = KOMO 4 News | location = Seattle, Washington | date = 2006-09-27 ]

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.

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. [cite web | last = Kirkpatrick | first = Marshall | title = "Blue Dot is not just another social bookmarking system" | publisher = "TechCrunch" | date = 2006-07-06 | url = http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/06/blue-dot-is-not-just-another-social-bookmarking-system | accessdate = 2006-12-18] Blue Dot hopes to profit on of sales from "dotted" websites from its affiliate marketing program, [cite news | last = Bermant | first = Charles | title = Blue Dot marks the spot for sharing best of Web | publisher = The Seattle Times | date = 2006-11-13 | url = http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003414563_btinterface13.html | accessdate = 2006-12-18 ] and is part of the technology resurgence in the Washington Puget Sound area. [cite news | last = Peterson | first = Kim | title = 2006 Year in Review: 10 developments that kept local tech companies in the news | publisher = The Seattle Times | date = 2006-12-11 | url = http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003471553_lookback11.html | accessdate = 2006-12-18 ]

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. [cite news | last = Cook | first = John | title = Startup social networking sites find targeted, willing helpers on campus | publisher = Seattle Post-Intelligencer | date = 2006-11-20 | url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/292919_college20.html | accessdate = 2006-12-18 ]

In 2007, the service was renamed Faves. As of December 2007, the web site still lists the company name as Blue dot, Inc.

ee also

* List of social bookmarking websites

References

External links

* [http://bluedot.us/friends/dots Official Site]