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Favilous joins crowded social bookmarking space | VentureBeat - 4 views

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favilous Networking bookmarking

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10 - Cached
  • A young UK-based startup called Favilous has joined the crowded social bookmarking space. It hopes to differentiate itself from the legions of existing bookmarking services by building a community behind the bookmarks, so users can share descriptions of sites and help each other discover new online destinations (see a clip from one of their tour slides below).
  • On the site, users can see other users’ popular bookmarks as well as the most popular bookmarks in various categories, including “Top Sites” and picks for categories such as food, entertainment, and travel. Once you sign up, you pick a number of categories, for example, blogs or music, that are of interest to you. Favilous populates the top sites in each of those categories, and to edit this list, you need to expand the category to see “all sites” and narrow it down from there, or else enter in a URL manually.
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  • The company plans to make money in 3 ways: by licensing the API to businesses and allowing them to customize Favilous for their own needs; by creating a subscription model to bookmark music playlists (they have reached out to Spotify to allow users to bookmark their playlists); and to possibly look at affiliate relationships and advertise to users, although they are hesitant to do that at this time.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10
     
    looks like someone's beat us to the punch...
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  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    How so? Is there a revenue model? I didn't see it in the display. Don't like black. Not a good introduction. Where's the music? Where's the art?
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10
     
    From the highlight: "The company plans to make money in 3 ways: by licensing the API to businesses and allowing them to customize Favilous for their own needs; by creating a subscription model to bookmark music playlists (they have reached out to Spotify to allow users to bookmark their playlists); and to possibly look at affiliate relationships and advertise to users, although they are hesitant to do that at this time." I agree though--I don't like the interface at all, and their usability is very limited. The thing is though, someone's plunked down a bunch of money for these clowns to make this piece of crap, so it just shows that with the right pitch, people will shell out cash for anything. Polish up those red heels Twain, we need a good story to sell.
  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    "Polish up those red heels Twain, we need a good story to sell."
François Dongier

chalo bolo - deep dhillon: Discovering Content by Mining the Entity Web - 1 views

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Deep Dhillon Evri entity web content discovery

shared by François Dongier on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • François Dongier on 13 Mar 10
     
    The talk slides used in the video are available HERE: http://www.box.net/shared/51efxejn9n
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