- Findory.com
Findory.com was a news and blog aggregation website that utilized
collaborative filtering to provide users with personalized newsfeeds and news e-mails. Findory collected a history of which articles a user clicked, a form of passive filtering, to recommend articles preferred by similar users [http://findory.com/help/personalization] . Along with news and blogs, While it existed, Findory provided personalized podcasts and video, personalized web search, and a variety of access methods, including aREST API, e-mail subscription, and mobile phone access.Findory was founded in 2004 by
Amazon.com alumnus Greg Linden [http://www2.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072] . In January 2007, Linden announced that he would be abandoning new work on Findory, and that he planned to shut it down. [http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/09/findory-to-shut-down-november-1.html] Although the announcedNovember 1 , 2007 termination date was briefly postponed, the service ultimately ceased onNovember 24 , 2007.See also
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Reddit
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070102185155/http://findory.com/ Archive.org snapshot] taken
January 2 , 2007
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
