Faves Overview
Faves, formerly called BlueDot, is a bookmarking site with a uniquely anti-social approach. The relaunched site adds features making their bookmark database more relevant and easier to use for anti-social bookmarkers. At the core, it has the same social and privacy features of the old Blue Dot. However, they’ve added a new method of finding trusted links that doesn’t require building yet another...More»
Faves, formerly called BlueDot, is a bookmarking site with a uniquely anti-social approach. The relaunched site adds features making their bookmark database more relevant and easier to use for anti-social bookmarkers. At the core, it has the same social and privacy features of the old Blue Dot. However, they’ve added a new method of finding trusted links that doesn’t require building yet another social network. The new site adds a topic network that does a lot of the networking and recommending implicitly along with an easy-to-use feed reader for sorting through new links. It’s kind of like Digg and Delicious combined with Google Reader.«Less
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| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| Unknown | Seed | 1.5M | Unknown |
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| Name: | Faves |
| Product URL: | http://faves.com/ |
| Description: | Users can annotate their links as well as see multimedia previews in order to better understand what they are looking at. The bookmarking system works similarly to Delicious. Users place a bookmarking button on their browser and click on it to mark and then annotate a page. The new topic network helps users discover links without resorting to finding trustworthy individuals. |
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01/24/2009 12:19PM by calibright
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| Bullish Opinions (1) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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They're getting 300K unique visitors per month according to Compete |
steve 05/30/2008 |
100% 2 votes 2 0% 0 |
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| Bearish Opinions (1) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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There are a lot of competitors in the social bookmarking space |
steve 05/30/2008 |
100% 2 votes 2 0% 0 |
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