Quickbrowse

Infobox_Company
company_name = Quicbrowse.com, Inc.
company_type = Private
foundation = 1999
location = Miami Beach, Florida, USA
key_people = Marc Fest, Founder and CEO
products = metabrowsing
industry = Internet
homepage = [http://www.quickbrowse.com/ www.quickbrowse.com]

Quickbrowse is a Web-based subscription service that enables users to browse multiple Web pages more quickly by combining them vertically into a single Web page. It was one of the early metabrowsing services.

History

Quickbrowse received wide media coverage [cite news | url = http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/24/metabrowser.idg/index.html | title = Don't just browse the Web--metabrowse! | date = April 24, 2000 | author = Mark Frauenfelder | work = CNN| accessdate = 2007-01-27] [cite news | url = http://www.quickbrowse.com/press/wsj3/ | title = Custom-Tailored Online News Can Be Dangerous for Society | date = October 15, 2001 | author = Tom Weber | work = The Wall Street Journal ] [cite journal | title = An in-depth look at the different flavors of personalization | author = J.D. Lasica | journal = Online Journalism Review | date = August 2, 2001 | url = http://www.jdlasica.com/articles/personalization.html | id = ISSN|1522-6883 | accessdate = 2007-01-27 ] [complete media coverage of Quickbrowse.com [http://www.quickbrowse.com/press/ Quickbrowse pressroom] . Retrieved on 2007-01-23.] during the height of the Dot-com bubble. It was quickly followed by other metabrowsers such as Octopus.com (backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreesen), Onepage.com (backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen), iHarvest.com, Katiesoft.com and Calltheshots.com - all of which have ceased to operate as metabrowsers. Octopus received more than $11.4 million in venture capital funding [cite news | title = Octopus.com Closes First Round Funding From Redpoint Ventures | work = PR Newswire | date = November 15, 1999 | url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-57560768.html?refid=ency_botnm Highbeam.com | accessdate = 2007-01-23] . Onepage received $25 million in venture capital funding [VentureWire.com [http://web.archive.org/web/20020205011821/onepage.com/press/venturewire.html Venturewire.com (archived at archive.org)] . Retrieved on 2007-01-23.] . Quickbrowse received half a million dollar in angel funding. It is the only one of the original Web-based metabrowsers still operating today. Quickbrowse backers included its lead investor, Geocities.com founder David Bohnett, the financial writer Andrew Tobias and CBS hurricane expert Bryan Norcross.

Quickbrowse was created by Marc Fest, a former journalist and self-taught programmer who initially created it as a tool to facilitate his daily journalist research.

References

External links

* [http://www.quickbrowse.com Quickbrowse.com]
* [http://www.marcfest.com Marc Fest personal Web site]